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What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/10/2008 7:48:01 PM
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raspberry331
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/10/2008 9:30:34 PM
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I read a 300-400 page "mystery" novel called "The Weatherman." On about page 50 the actual weatherman was arrested for the crimes in the book. After about 300 more pages, it turns out he was guilty.
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/10/2008 9:36:27 PM
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I started Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert and she was just too whiny and neurotic. She was so bad that I only got to through the Eat section before I had to chuck it.
At Risk by Patricia Cornwell. It was so bad and sparse that it was double spaced in order to give it the appearance of a full sized novel.
House by Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti. The collaboration just didn't work.
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/10/2008 10:52:58 PM
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Anything by Shakespeare or Dickens.
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/11/2008 2:07:35 AM
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Rethinking History. It was only partially good at describing the study/philosophy of history. It's basically an existential mess that gives good reason to dispute the existence of itself.
House (Dekker and Peretti), and Monster (Peretti) didn't grab my attention, but weren't anywhere near as bad as Rethinking History.
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/11/2008 2:11:44 AM
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A novel called Middlesex. I had to read it for a class in school and hated it. Not only was it depressing, but it was immoral and I have never disliked reading a book more.
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/11/2008 2:49:23 AM
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I hated "The Lovely Bones." It was sappy, sentimental, new-agey, Oprah book of the month, tripe. And its basic formula is basically very cookie cutter at the moment. There's a thousand novels right now just like it or better.
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/11/2008 8:32:28 AM
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One of the worst books I've ever started was "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole. To me it's proof a Pulitzer Prize doesn't mean a good read.
I don't force myself to finish a book if I don't like it unless I have to read it for a class. And the last time that happened was some time in the mid 70's so you'll forgive me if I can't recall the title. 
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/11/2008 8:47:15 AM
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For me it was The Joy Luck Club.
I had to read it in high school, and I just could not get into it and our teacher was making us do so much work on it. I could not stand it.
That being said, I may actually read it again one day to see if it was the book, or the work that made me dislike it so much.
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/11/2008 11:03:42 AM
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Interesting, I like Shakespeare and Dickens and loved The Joy Luck Club.
Hannibal, the sequel to Silence of the Lambs. I really liked SofL in college so I checked out Hannibal right away. I remember throwing at the wall at one point. It didn't stay true to it's characters and was silly and boring to boot.
I also hated She's Come Undone and have avoided Oprah books since then.
Those are probably not the worst books I've ever read but I seem to have blocked out worse ones.
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/11/2008 12:44:11 PM
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Hannibal, and also Hannibal Rising were horribly written books. You almost wonder how the same guy could have written those and also written Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, which were excellent.
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/11/2008 2:22:09 PM
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I don't pay much attention to O's book club, but Wally Lamb wrote another book "I Know This Much is True", which is excellent.
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Interesting, I like Shakespeare and Dickens and loved The Joy Luck Club.
Hannibal, the sequel to Silence of the Lambs. I really liked SofL in college so I checked out Hannibal right away. I remember throwing at the wall at one point. It didn't stay true to it's characters and was silly and boring to boot.
I also hated She's Come Undone and have avoided Oprah books since then.
Those are probably not the worst books I've ever read but I seem to have blocked out worse ones.
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/11/2008 8:31:36 PM
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I've got to go with "The Da Vinci Code". I was so disappointed, because I loved "Angels and Demons" so much. "The Da Vinci Code" just didn't live up to the well-written prequel.
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/11/2008 8:40:56 PM
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Confederecy of Dunces is one of my favorite books ever. I've read it three times. It's genius comedy.
I guess everyone has different tastes. 
I guess so. Much as I'm not a big fan of Dickens, I would never rate him as the worst, and I love Shakespeare.
Thankfully, I've forgotten the names of so many books I've read that weren't very good. But the one that I think is one of the worst is Last of the Mohicans. It is a confusing and just a poorly written book. When I read it in high school I thought I was the one who was messed up, because it's a classic, and hey, if I didn't like it or thought it was bad, then I had to be the one who didn't get it. Then I read Mark Twain's The Literary Offenses of Fenimore Cooper," and boy was I relieved. Twain nailed it. Oh, and just to be clear, Twain is speaking of two of the Leatherstocking Tales, but all of them are not good including Mohicans which is second. I guess Pathfinder and Deerslayer he considered the worst.
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/11/2008 8:47:29 PM
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Believe it or not, Algeo is worse than those two.
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/12/2008 9:27:37 AM
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Believe it or not, Algeo is worse than those two.
Never even heard of it. Sounds like a diabolical mating of algebra and geometry, and that's just wrong.
Least amount of pages in one book I ever read was the text for my calculus class my senior year in high school. I read three sentences and dropped the class.
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/12/2008 3:18:49 PM
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The Humor of Christ found it at a used book sale and picked it up thinking it would be done in a manner such as Chuck Swindoll handles his subjects.
1000 year old toast would have been easier to consume.
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/12/2008 3:49:06 PM
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A science fiction novel by a renegade Baptist that included Jesus in one chapter, but was so vile, pornographic, and blasphemous overall that I put it in the trash after reading it.
Since science fiction is a branch of juvenile literature, this attempt to contaminate the reader and the subject is pretty hard to forgive, let alone forget!
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/12/2008 5:47:38 PM
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When I was about eleven I read the autobiography of Ulysses S. Grant...one of the most boring books I've ever read!!! Almost the whole book is about strategizing an army and all the different wars and such he fought in...he'd have like one or two sentences about his wife giving birth, then go back to planning and fighting! Can't he talk about something family? At least, that's what I remember from when I was eleven.
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RE: What is the Worst Book You've Read? - 7/12/2008 10:30:47 PM
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Romeo and Juliet.
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