I'm curious in yall's opinion what is the absolute worst book you have read
Personally mine is speak (I think that's the name?) It's one of the few books I just couldn't get through
I'm curious in yall's opinion what is the absolute worst book you have read
Personally mine is speak (I think that's the name?) It's one of the few books I just couldn't get through
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A book that I really hated was Tell Me Your Dreams by Sydney Sheldon. It was complete trash. Very sexist, ableist, weird, and boring.
A book that I really hated was Tell Me Your Dreams by Sydney Sheldon. It was complete trash. Very sexist, ableist, weird, and boring.
God I hated speak, too. I had to read it twice for school. Look, the message is important and all but I hated Melinda. It was the stereotypical taken advantage of story, tbh. 'girl gets drunk, girl gets taken advantage of, girl feels dirty, girl confronts her fears and mistakes, girl gets better'. That's legit the story.
God I hated speak, too. I had to read it twice for school. Look, the message is important and all but I hated Melinda. It was the stereotypical taken advantage of story, tbh. 'girl gets drunk, girl gets taken advantage of, girl feels dirty, girl confronts her fears and mistakes, girl gets better'. That's legit the story.
Hmmm... it's a toss up between Christopher Paolini's "Eragon" (which read like a really bad LOTR/Star Wars/Dragonriders of Pern crossover fic) and David Clement-Davies "The Sight" (which desperately wanted to be "Watership Down" with wolves, but completely failed to capture any of the charm and beauty that made "Watership Down" one of the best books ever written.)
Both books were incredibly poorly written.
"Eragon" was boring, predictable, and very poorly thought out, with dull, cliche characters. It was only published because of nepotism. Easy to get published when your parents own a publishing company. "Eragon" is still little more than badly written, glorified fanfiction with all the originality of a turnip.
"The Sight" was full of continuity errors and poorly constructed sentences, and the author lacked the creativity to create any original folklore for his wolf characters, instead just rewriting existing human folklore about wolves. Compare to "Watership Down", or the "Warrior Cats" series for that matter, where the authors created NEW folklore and beliefs for their animal characters.
I'm an avid reader. I've read plenty of mediocre books that still had something nice about them, some upside that made them worth reading even if they weren't the best stories ever told. "Eragon" and "The Sight" are the only two books I have ever HATED.
Honorary mention goes to Anne McCaffrey's later books, after she became so convinced of her own superiority that she stopped trying to write good books, and was just cashing in on her earlier successes. "Freedom's Challenge" and "Skies of Pern" are the only two books I've failed to read all the way to the end, just due to coming very close to dying of boredom. At least my HATE sustained me while reading "Eragon" and "The Sight".
Hmmm... it's a toss up between Christopher Paolini's "Eragon" (which read like a really bad LOTR/Star Wars/Dragonriders of Pern crossover fic) and David Clement-Davies "The Sight" (which desperately wanted to be "Watership Down" with wolves, but completely failed to capture any of the charm and beauty that made "Watership Down" one of the best books ever written.)
Both books were incredibly poorly written.
"Eragon" was boring, predictable, and very poorly thought out, with dull, cliche characters. It was only published because of nepotism. Easy to get published when your parents own a publishing company. "Eragon" is still little more than badly written, glorified fanfiction with all the originality of a turnip.
"The Sight" was full of continuity errors and poorly constructed sentences, and the author lacked the creativity to create any original folklore for his wolf characters, instead just rewriting existing human folklore about wolves. Compare to "Watership Down", or the "Warrior Cats" series for that matter, where the authors created NEW folklore and beliefs for their animal characters.
I'm an avid reader. I've read plenty of mediocre books that still had something nice about them, some upside that made them worth reading even if they weren't the best stories ever told. "Eragon" and "The Sight" are the only two books I have ever HATED.
Honorary mention goes to Anne McCaffrey's later books, after she became so convinced of her own superiority that she stopped trying to write good books, and was just cashing in on her earlier successes. "Freedom's Challenge" and "Skies of Pern" are the only two books I've failed to read all the way to the end, just due to coming very close to dying of boredom. At least my HATE sustained me while reading "Eragon" and "The Sight".
It's been a few years since I read it and I don't remember much but... I wasn't really a fan of Throne of Glass from Sarah J. Maas. I heard good reviews of that series and I really wanted to like it, but the main character ****** me off so much, I could barely finish the first book. I got Mary Sue vibes from her and just... God, she was insufferable lol.
It's been a few years since I read it and I don't remember much but... I wasn't really a fan of Throne of Glass from Sarah J. Maas. I heard good reviews of that series and I really wanted to like it, but the main character ****** me off so much, I could barely finish the first book. I got Mary Sue vibes from her and just... God, she was insufferable lol.
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Lord of the Flies. I don't care if it's supposed to be a classic, that book was dumb.
There was this one book, I don't remember what it was called, but it was a YA distopian story that was probably trying to cash in on the YA distopia craze. There was also a love triangle. That was pretty much the plot. Oh, there was a girl in a bubble on the front, I think.
Lord of the Flies. I don't care if it's supposed to be a classic, that book was dumb.
There was this one book, I don't remember what it was called, but it was a YA distopian story that was probably trying to cash in on the YA distopia craze. There was also a love triangle. That was pretty much the plot. Oh, there was a girl in a bubble on the front, I think.
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The Alchemist...ugh. I always tried to make the most of the books we read in school but this one drove me to the edge. There’s nothing wrong about having a naïve protag, but Santiago was sometimes just plain dumb(why did you ask a total stranger to hold all your cash you absolute buffoon). The side characters he met along the way felt uninspired and easily discarded. Like, he becomes good friends with this one chick by a well and she’s never mentioned again? What was the point? Even the Alchemist himself, the dude who the book is named after, is boring.
It’s basically a story of a bad road trip.
The Road was much better, even though a lot less stuff happened in it.
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Warrior Cats
I really don't understand the popularity of these books with older audiences. I mean I love the idea of it, but I couldn't even get past the first book it was so badly written.
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Warrior Cats
I really don't understand the popularity of these books with older audiences. I mean I love the idea of it, but I couldn't even get past the first book it was so badly written.
Please don't hurt me
Let me rant about "Zenith" by Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings.
So, it was actually pretty decent at first? The plot was... weird, but it was readable. They really only gave development to the protagonist, the love interest, the protagonist's best friend, and the antagonist. All the other characters just fit archetypes, the two I can think of off the top of my head are "cute girl that will kill you" and "gentle giant".
What killed any decency for this book was the plot twist at the very end. It came out of nowhere, with no foreshadowing whatsoever, and it made me pretty mad when I read it. Basically, the guy the protagonist and her crew were tasked to save turned out to be evil. He just casually kills his father and proceeds to release some mind-control thing onto everyone in the room. The only people who weren't affected were the protagonist and the love interest, I believe. Why do I say it came out of nowhere? Because that's the exact opposite of the personality this guy displayed earlier - calm, likes painting, etc. It wasn't in character for him to do that, in my opinion.
And thus, that's why I hate this book.
Let me rant about "Zenith" by Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings.
So, it was actually pretty decent at first? The plot was... weird, but it was readable. They really only gave development to the protagonist, the love interest, the protagonist's best friend, and the antagonist. All the other characters just fit archetypes, the two I can think of off the top of my head are "cute girl that will kill you" and "gentle giant".
What killed any decency for this book was the plot twist at the very end. It came out of nowhere, with no foreshadowing whatsoever, and it made me pretty mad when I read it. Basically, the guy the protagonist and her crew were tasked to save turned out to be evil. He just casually kills his father and proceeds to release some mind-control thing onto everyone in the room. The only people who weren't affected were the protagonist and the love interest, I believe. Why do I say it came out of nowhere? Because that's the exact opposite of the personality this guy displayed earlier - calm, likes painting, etc. It wasn't in character for him to do that, in my opinion.
And thus, that's why I hate this book.
I'm agreeing with @
Ruan here, it's got to be Eragon.
I don't read outside of my preferred genre often, and at the time I was reading a lot of fantasy so Eragon got recced to me a lot, but good GRIEF it was bad.
I could barely get past the first two or so chapters, because the writing was so awful. I wanted to red-line and correct so much of it because it was just so horribly written. I've heard people say "But it was written by a kid!" and I have to respond with puh-lease, he's two years older than me.
Besides, even if his age was a factor, the fact that he got published through nepotism apparently negates the need for an editor, which is not a good thing.
It's poorly written, derivative, long-winded and just generally naff. 0/10, would not recommend.
I must also add... that I really didn't like the Poppy War and The Dragon Republic by R.L. Kuang.
Good christ the protagonist was unlikable. And I got so sick of the one guy switching from good guy to bad guy to good guy because apparently the author just wanted to re-write Zuko or something. The world is derivative, the characters are meh, a whole group of half decent ones are just ... written off pointlessly and yeah, nah. What disappointed me about this one is that one of my favourite authors recommended it and I just can't understand why.
I'm agreeing with @
Ruan here, it's got to be Eragon.
I don't read outside of my preferred genre often, and at the time I was reading a lot of fantasy so Eragon got recced to me a lot, but good GRIEF it was bad.
I could barely get past the first two or so chapters, because the writing was so awful. I wanted to red-line and correct so much of it because it was just so horribly written. I've heard people say "But it was written by a kid!" and I have to respond with puh-lease, he's two years older than me.
Besides, even if his age was a factor, the fact that he got published through nepotism apparently negates the need for an editor, which is not a good thing.
It's poorly written, derivative, long-winded and just generally naff. 0/10, would not recommend.
I must also add... that I really didn't like the Poppy War and The Dragon Republic by R.L. Kuang.
Good christ the protagonist was unlikable. And I got so sick of the one guy switching from good guy to bad guy to good guy because apparently the author just wanted to re-write Zuko or something. The world is derivative, the characters are meh, a whole group of half decent ones are just ... written off pointlessly and yeah, nah. What disappointed me about this one is that one of my favourite authors recommended it and I just can't understand why.
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