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What's the worst book you've ever read?

Posted by Ghost Hunting (aka JoeMetz) Oct 24 '11, 08:24

me, for a cheap throwaway, Orson Scott Card's Empire....

for soemthing that was supposed to be quality -- anything by William Faulkner.

OSC's book was so bad that if someone bon-fired it, it'd be a worthy endeavor.

Faulkner's was so useless, it made me question the necessity of AP Lit.

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Surprised no one mentioned "Gideon's Sword" -- nm - MDH Oct 24, 08:43
I Am Charlotte Simmons, maybe. -- nm - Kim Pine dressed in a Ramona Flowers costume Oct 24, 08:42
Frankly, one of the later Dexter novels. So disappointingly terrible. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 24, 08:33
I hated Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. -- nm - Ender Oct 24, 08:32
I'd only say Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey because it made me so upset I didn't finish it nor the rest of the series. -- nm - Qale Oct 24, 08:30
The Association by Bentley Little was atrociously bad. Mark Twain was torture. -- nm - ty97 Oct 24, 08:28 9
- Add Mark Twain to my "favorite authors" list. - Kim Pine dressed in a Ramona Flowers costume Oct 24, 08:39
- Mark Twain? have you read Tom Sawyer? -- nm - Andie Oct 24, 08:31 7
  - Unfortunately my HS English teacher forced me too. Huck Finn as well. - ty97 Oct 24, 08:33 6
    - I liked Tom Sawyer, hated Huck Finn mainly cuz of the timing we had to read them. - Ghost Hunting Oct 24, 08:53
    - dude. -- nm - Diva Oct 24, 08:50
    - Wow, did I ever read this post wrong. -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 24, 08:37 1
      - I thought it was just me. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:37
    - heh. i reread them both this year as they were part of the 100 books preloaded on my e-reader. -- nm - Andie Oct 24, 08:34
    - I can see the teacher made an inedible mark. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 24, 08:34
This probably wouldn't be my final answer for "worst" but i really hated "The Pearl" in 10th grade or so. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 24, 08:27
The sequel to The Alienist, though Ender's Game reaaaaaalllly rubbed me the wrong way -- nm - prayformojo Oct 24, 08:26 2
- The Alienist sucked, too. -- nm - Kim Pine dressed in a Ramona Flowers costume Oct 24, 08:39 1
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Timeline was pretty bad, and the movie was somehow worse. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 24, 08:25 3
- Who wrote that? -- nm - Ghost Hunting Oct 24, 08:26 1
  - Crichton -- nm - Evil Beaker Oct 24, 08:26
- *nodding* -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 24, 08:26
so alt WWII fiction... - Mel Profit Oct 24, 08:25
anything by Jeff Long...great premise for horror stuff but he never ever follows through -- nm - Remlik Oct 24, 08:25
Scorpion's Gate by Richard Clarke comes to mind -- nm - con_carnage Oct 24, 08:25
cheap throwaway: Left Behind series. astonishingly bad. for a "good" book: one of the dreadful victorians. I think Silas Marner. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:25 1
- no, Ethan Frome. (which is after Victorian, but close enough) -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 08:27

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