The worst book you've ever read

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I think VisperaAspis picked up the Bible.

Not long ago I checked out The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway from the library. I read about 1/3 or 1/2 of it and returned it without finishing. I really don't understand why it's considered a classic. It was pretty monotonous, with hardly anything happening other than people socializing in Parisian cafes. I left off where they were on a trip to Spain. I wouldn't recommend it.

Atonement by Ian McEwan. Really hard to read. Just drivel.

It scares me to think what that book was like before the editor got their hands on it.

My sister and my aunt (who usually has very good taste in books) are in love with the series, so I borrowed my sister's copy to see what it was like. I got through the first chapter and had to put it down. There's nothing, not one thing, that I could find good with that book.

I had to read the first chapter of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None in English class today. It sucked. Hard.

I couldn't really get into it either. I loved Old Man and the Sea though.

Twilight. My sisters are completely obsessed with it, but i couldn't even get through the first book.

I readed it years ago. Back then I find the drochs so scary.

The Magus. Pretentious, ribald and repetitive.

The Secret Life of Bees. I had to read it in High School and it was the only book we read that I couldn't stand for some reason.

Yeah I only read a few chapters of it. I faked reading the rest of it.

I can't really think of the worst book I've ever read. If I don't like a book, I usually don't finish it. Even with some books I quite like, I often get distracted and fail to finish them.

I remember deciding to give Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness a go because it was short and because I liked the film Apocalypse Now, but I found the prose really dull. I gave up after about 20 pages.

I've tried reading William Gibson's Neuromancer twice now, and I've given up twice. I read the reviews on amazon, and I was glad to see I wasn't the only one to find the plot incomprehensible. However, this is one book I do intend to finish some time, however painful it is!

Yeah, it's rubbish. No style and no substance. ^^

Funny, I kind of liked it, but admit I haven't thought much of anything else by him I've tried. In fact, they all seemed to be essentially rewrites of Neuromancer, with a few details changed.

A book that trods kind of the same path but is far more entertaining is Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. A caution: Its kind of a pity that Stephenson seems to have come down with the novelist's version of "bloatware" of late. I also liked the Diamond Age quite a bit, but his stuff since then has really not been my cup of tea, more an endurance contest than an entertainment.

I've just remembered a book I found even more boring than Heart of Darkness: On the Road by Jack Kerouac. I managed about 10 pages of that.

(I'm not alone. Apparently Truman Capote said of Kerouac's work "That's not writing. That's typing.")

I don't like to read novels at all, and I've read but one novel in my entire life.
I only read science books