What is the worst book you have ever read?

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You know, I never really got the Hitler attraction. I agree with your description of the book, but he looked all screwy when he was on stage too. I know Germany was messed up at the time and they needed someone, but c'mon! It's not like he was even movie star handsome type.

Both Shibumi and The Loo Sanction, by Trevanian were pretty godawful. maybe not the worst I've ever read, but close.

More recently, Stephen Hunter dropped this turd called I Sniper that was hilariously bad, like thinly fictionalized Ted Turner hiring horrifically accented Irish mercenaries to bump off thinly veiled 60's radicals for reasons that make no sense, and, oh yeah, he manages to work the entire narrative from the Marty Robbins song "Big Iron" in too, almost word for word. I'd almost recommend it just to laugh at it.

yeah. he really physically got into his speeches...he rehearsed them endlessly and had pictures taken of his poses. but i guess all that seemingly pointless trouble paid off in reducing his audience to tears. he may have been an awful general but is oratory skills were unmatched, i'll give him that.

not many other people in power at that time (heck, even now) were good looking either.
churchill looked like a child/bulldog, hirohito had a bad dust mustache, mugabe looks like a fish (albeit a rather YOUNG looking fish, and assad is just like hitler with his lack of a chin.

FDR was pretty handsome though.

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. Total garbage.

The characters are dull and have no personality whatsoever. The main protagonist is static, annoying, boring, and has a stupid motive for her stupid actions. The plot is boring and very straightforward. I don't remember the ending, but I'm pretty sure I hated it too. There is nothing to learn from this horrible book and If I wasn't reading it for school then it would have been a massive waste of time to read.

I think Mussolini was visually quite freakish as well. And resembled Putin a little, non e vero?

i little bit, u guess mussolini has much bigger eyes though, putin definitely has some narrow eyes.
putin also reminds me of a shaved hitler with different hair...

Them's fightin' words.

Seriously, if you didn't like It, stay far away from the extended version of The Stand. You could murder someone with that tome. Both of those books are a couple of my favorites, but I can see why you would be put off by the length. Sometimes King is a bit too long-winded, even for me.

One of my favorite shorter novels by him is The Long Walk, though. You should check it out.

My favorite Stephen King novels have been Salem's Lot, The Dark Half, Christine, Gerald's Game, and others. It wasn't just the length of It that I thought made it so unlikeable for me, but the writing just wasn't up to the same par as King's other works, and the characters weren't nearly as well developed.

I used to like Stephen King's books, but I'm finding it hard to get back into them. I find a lot of his imagery quite weird, and he makes a lot of reference to children's privates, which freaked me out a little. And when the kids have sex at the end of It -- what the hell was that all about?

They did? For real? Maybe it's best I never finished the book.

Yeah, for real. Sorry about spoilers, but it doesn't really add to the plot at all. It just made me feel sick

Guess so.

Stevie was on a lot of drugs back then; in fact The Tommyknockers can be read as a particularly extended metaphor for cocaine.

If I find a book really bad I usually stop reading because it's like trying to sit through really bad music or a bad movie. I just can't do it. It can be even hard for me to finish a good book because I can't focus, my mind keeps wandering or something mentioned in the book reminds of something else. For example they may mention tomatoes in the book, and I'll start thinking about all the stuff I know about tomatoes - that they're really a fruit, that they're in the nightshade family, that people originally wouldn't eat them because they thought they were poisonous because of that, and all the green parts except the fruit itself actually are, and how the only tomatoes I actually like are the little cherry or grape varieties that are sweet-tasting and good in salads, and how some people don't but I like the way they burst in my mouth... what were we talking about, again?

My mother has read a few novels even though she did not particularly enjoy them, and the way she described them to me made them sound pretty bad, and I asked her why she keeps reading if she doesn't like it. I guess she's just better at concentrating than me.

There honestly aren't many books that I didn't like, none that I hated enough to put down but ones that I finished and decided to pass them on instead of keep them as part of my book collection.

One book that I didn't like was The Reapers by John Connolly. The first 75% of the book was really hard for me to get through and it was overall boring. Then the last 25% of the book went from "sigh, is this finished yet" to "woah! this is getting good". Still wasn't enough for me to like the book.

At this point I'll be avoiding anything by John Lescroart. I've read two of his books, The Hunt Club and Betrayal. The Hunt club was just dull and I found it difficult to pay attention to anything that was happening. Betrayal was actually somewhat decent, but what was supposed to be a back story wound up being about 300-350 pages long and the ending confused me and threw my understanding of one character under the bus.

State of Fear by Michael Crichton, I like his books, and I read that one cover to cover it was addicting to read but the story was just so stupid. When you actually reflect about the book you realize it just takes the stale characters from place to place, its absurd and takes itself too seriously. The great thing about his books is the sort of educational content in it. There was this weapon that caused earthquakes based on the concept of Nikola Tesla's oscillator. It mentioned that lightning may actually makes storms stronger it felt cromulent at the time, but it is nonsense.