Single worst book/author you've ever read? (relationship, critique, novel)

[DrummerBoy]

As far as so-called classics that had a ton of positive hype, my choice for worst novel I ever rread is without a doubt "One-Hundred Years of Solitude" my Gabriel Garcia-Marquez.

I found it self-indulgent, absurdist and juvenile. And what's up with using the same names over and over for different characters? Complete rubbish.
Also, I for the life of me could never understand the allure of Ernest Hemingway. Wooden, stilted characters and high-school level rudimentary writing style. What am I missing here?

[peppermint]

I read half of Ben Carson's autobiography Gifted Hands. I thought it was awful - entirely too self-righteous and egocentric. Hated it. I usually try to finish books that I start, but I didn't find this book to be uplifting or inspirational. Yuck!

[netwit]

The Danny Orlis series books are absolutely the very worst books I have ever read. For those of you who were fortunate enough to avoid Danny Orlis growing up, here is a link: Danny Orlis series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

When I grew up, I had access to very few books. There was no library other than the school library and the church library. Now, I read everything, including the French parts of Corn Flakes boxes. But Danny Orlis, the Christian version of the Hardy Boys... I prayed for him to die at the hands of his fictional enemies.

According to the Wikipedia site, he was still around tormenting other children with his stupid life as recently as 1989.

[light_shimmer]

I can't read anything by Anne Rice. DRIVES ME INSANE. How much description can you possibly need? Every book I've tried to read of hers, I've gotten a chapter into it and felt like my eyes were crossing. UGH

[Cenk Armagan]

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[Cenk Armagan]

Originally Posted by light_shimmer

I can't read anything by Anne Rice. DRIVES ME INSANE. How much description can you possibly need? Every book I've tried to read of hers, I've gotten a chapter into it and felt like my eyes were crossing. UGH

Vampire Lestat series were quite good but after she decided to be a late nun and turned her face towards the illuminating sun of religion, she was instantly dropped my reading list (not that those books were soundly written ones, they were also bad)

[pwtatum]

Originally Posted by njkate

Just finished the most awful book I've ever forced myself to finish!

The Ghostwriter by John Harwood

Simply awful.....I didn't find any spine tingling, hair raising passages at all...BORING

I enjoyed this clever and creepy book very much; it's well written with an interesting plot and many psychologically devious twists and turns; has a horrific means of murder in one part; it's certainly not boring at all, but not for all tastes.

[FluidFreedom]

I have to agree with the Twilight series. Pure drivel. I hated the character Bella and even more, I despised the character Edward. What makes me mad, is that I finished the series and was so pissed off for having wasted my time reading them. The last book was the worst of them all.

Hmmmm... The Element of Time was another horrible book. It started off good, but slowly turned into this stupid fluffy girlie crap that made no sense. I hate when female characters start off really strong and then they introduce some guy and they become twits.

[fruitlassie]

Usually if something is really bad I won't get past the first chapter. I do recall forcing myself to finish Along Came a Spider which seemed to be written on a third grade level and was about as scary as an episode of Scooby Doo...the popularity of James Patterson mystifies me. I imagine Dan Brown is equally bad.

The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos is a more recent one that I forced myself to get through - good reviews on Amazon, but I thought it was cliched dreck.

[JordanJP]

I read about the first five pages of the first Twilight book once.

'Nough said.