Worst Book.

GoodSarmatian said:
The worst I have read so far was The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe. I had to read it for school and I found it utterly boring and predictable.
I have never read somehthing so full of cheese and whine. It was a relief when that sissy finally committed suicide.
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Exactly my feeling as well about this book.

We also had to read more modern literature and I did not like
Peter Handke : Wunschloses Unglück
Ingeborg Bachmann: Das dreissigste Jahr

From my favourite genre, sci-fi I had a look into the Prelude to Dune series from Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert. Utter trash :mad:
 
scherbchen said:
Eye of the World - first in the Wheel of Time series. boring, predictable, cookie-cutter fantasy. I actually tried to read it 3 times since it has been hyped so much, never made it past the first half...
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Well, you got off easy. I didn't quit until... I think... six books into the series. The first three were actually reasonably entertaining compared to the next three (where each book was longer than the last, covered a shorter span of time, and had less stuff actually happen).
 
Mr. Blonde said:
From my favourite genre, sci-fi I had a look into the Prelude to Dune series from Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert. Utter trash :mad:
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What made them so bad? I consider the original 6-part series to be one of the best things I've ever read, but have never touched anything written by the son (or anyone else).

I've been thinking of trying out the prequels and re-reading the entire (new) series from beginning to end (from The Butlerian Jihad to Sandworms of Dune)

I really want to do this, so I was wondering what exactly was so bad about the prequels, and why I should stay away.
 
No hate for a Tale of Two Cities?
 
Mr. Blonde said:
Exactly my feeling as well about this book.

We also had to read more modern literature and I did not like
Peter Handke : Wunschloses Unglück
Ingeborg Bachmann: Das dreissigste Jahr

From my favourite genre, sci-fi I had a look into the Prelude to Dune series from Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert. Utter trash :mad:
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Haven't read them but I thought they would be beter than the originals. I figured it would be hard to make them worse. I liked Dune and God Emperor of Dune but some of those last Dune books were awful.
 
warpus said:
What made them so bad? I consider the original 6-part series to be one of the best things I've ever read, but have never touched anything written by the son (or anyone else).

I've been thinking of trying out the prequels and re-reading the entire (new) series from beginning to end (from The Butlerian Jihad to Sandworms of Dune)

I really want to do this, so I was wondering what exactly was so bad about the prequels, and why I should stay away.
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I only could bring myself to read part I The Butlerian Jihad. Here some impressions: Humans are suppressed by AI that was created in the past by hackers and got out of their control. Those hackers exist as cyborgs who are somewhat controled by the AI, they are bloodthirsty and do lots of maiming of slave humans. The AI is trying to understand humans through a robot who does nothing but vivisect the slave humans to get them to know closer. Then there is a little enclave (=several planets) of free humans, telekinetic gifted ones, telepathic ones. Of course, the revolt succeeds against an omnipresent AI with all odds against them. It was so unlogical I personally felt insulted. Everything full of ripped off clichés and mindboggling logical holes.
Additionally they want to mimick the original books with their own pseudo-philosophy thrown in between, but can never live up to the original. Maybe I would judge it more softly if the originals did not exist but it would never get over 4 out of 10 even if judged more objectively.
 
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath. Horrible, horrible, horrible.

Second, Joyce's Ulysses. Gave up after 2 pages.
 
warpus said:
It was a good book, it was a bad book...
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made me chuckle :D

PS: /nitpick It was the best of books, it was the worst of books /nitpick
 
I hated hard times by dickens. As I recall i had a tough time trying to actually read it and couldn't connect with any of the characters.
 
Shadylookin said:
I hated hard times by dickens. As I recall i had a tough time trying to actually read it and couldn't connect with any of the characters.
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Don't you mean you had a "hard time" reading it?:lol:

I have to admit, I have mixed feelings about Dickens. I've only read A Tale Of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, and A Christmas Carol, and while they can be fun and entertaining at times, his tendency to pass off melodrama as "things of great import" gets awfully grating. A lot of Victorian-era writers did this, but they weren't always so obvious about it.
 
Animal Farm

Worst book ever.
 
GuitarHero said:
Never read about pigs while drunk. Decode this, and the answer is yours.
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Are you that thick and stupid to not realize that it was satire? Hell, the copy I have even mentions it in the forward.
 
Harbringer said:
Are you that thick and stupid to not realize that it was satire? Hell, the copy I have even mentions it in the forward.
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The copy I had was missing the first 10 pages. Growin' up in Detroit was a b**ch .........
 
carmen510 said:
Well that's why you move. ;)
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Yep. And 'cuz I was providing for my grandparents, parents, and siblings with no welfare check or co-provider.
 
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