Worst book you've ever read?

I cannot comment on the book for the movie I am going to talk about (I know I'm bending the rules, but I HAVE TO GET THIS OUT! )

Left Behind.

Not only is it obvious fundie indoctrination propaganda, it's BORING obvious fundie indoctrination propaganda.

I mean, what good is obvious fundie indoctrination propaganda if it's so bad you can't even make fun of it?
 
'Ancient Evenings', by Norman Mailer. Recommended by someone whose opinion I usually trust; they figured, he likes Egyptian stuff, he'd LOVE this!
We're not speaking now....:wink:
 
Some Friggin Guy said:
I cannot comment on the book for the movie I am going to talk about (I know I'm bending the rules, but I HAVE TO GET THIS OUT! )

Left Behind.

Not only is it obvious fundie indoctrination propaganda, it's BORING obvious fundie indoctrination propaganda.

I mean, what good is obvious fundie indoctrination propaganda if it's so bad you can't even make fun of it?
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One of the authors of this seminal work was speaking at a church here recently; unfortunately I wasn't available to stop in & hear what he had to say concerning the books...
"Fairy-tales, ghosts, and goblins!" as Mr Hengist said (Star Trek, Wolf In The Fold)
 
Anything by Carlos Casteneda. They are tremendously bad. I knew some people in college who thought he was some sort of bruja and that the stuff he wrote actually happened.
 
Nyarlathotep said:
The worst book I ever read was one called "Neanderthal". It was by some Micheal Chricton wannabe whose name I can't remember.

The basic premise was researchers find a tribe of Neanderthals living in modern day in some remote mountains in Pakistan. It was a promising premise but I won't describe it any further than that in case some poor soul feels masochistic enough to try to read this particular pice of trash. Needless to say, the premise is blown by a predictable storyline and some of the worst writing this side of an eighth grade english class.
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Hey, you had been warned, but no, you insisted on reading that tripe!! I admit it, it was a bad purchase, but what the hey, live and learn!! :wink8:
 
Bio of a Space Tyrant by Piers Anthony. I actually had my husband remove that piece of trash from my home. It was the most awful thing I have ever read, and I used to like Piers Anthony. <sigh>
 
sorgoth said:



:roll: :roll: :roll: That is HILARIOUS! So...bad...yet so...funny...
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Yup, that "many fauceted scarlet emerald" gets me every time.:roll:

Theis was actually about 16 when he wrote that story, and evidently was much taken with the works of Robert E. Howard. I've heard that he was devastated to learn the fate of his brainchild...reminds me of the Star Wars Kid.
 
Chanileslie said:
Bio of a Space Tyrant by Piers Anthony. I actually had my husband remove that piece of trash from my home. It was the most awful thing I have ever read, and I used to like Piers Anthony. <sigh>
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Ye Gods - I had repressed the horrible memory of forcing my way through this book - but you're right. . . . And it has SEQUELS.

The horror. The horror.
 
I'll admit right up front that I'm not as well read as most of the people whom have posted in this thread and I tend to pride myself on the fact that what I start, I finish reading. However, the one book I never got past the first chapter on was "Battlefield: Earth". It was so boring that it put me to sleep practically every time I tried to read it!

I am currently reading "The Lord of the Rings" and am stuck somewhere in the second book. Ugh. The movie moved better than the book does. Not that I'm saying it's bad, just that it has its slow points. I was planning on trying to finish the book before the third movie comes out, but I now see that is starting to become highly unlikely.
 
Chanileslie said:


Hey, you had been warned, but no, you insisted on reading that tripe!! I admit it, it was a bad purchase, but what the hey, live and learn!! :wink8:
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Yeah I know, but I am stubborn.
 
Dinonychus said:

I am currently reading "The Lord of the Rings" and am stuck somewhere in the second book. Ugh. The movie moved better than the book does. Not that I'm saying it's bad, just that it has its slow points. I was planning on trying to finish the book before the third movie comes out, but I now see that is starting to become highly unlikely.
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I think the movie is better too. Mostly because it has one thing that the book badly needed.....EDITING!!!!!!!!!!
 
Nyarlathotep said:


I think the movie is better too. Mostly because it has one thing that the book badly needed.....EDITING!!!!!!!!!!
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I've still not read LOTR....By the time the final film hits, why bother? :)
Of course someone will disagree, but it does take less time.:roll:
 
Temporal Renegade said:


I've still not read LOTR....By the time the final film hits, why bother? :)
Of course someone will disagree, but it does take less time.:roll:
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Who?

Well, you do miss a lot of interesting detail by watching the movie, and also lose a bit of feeling for the desparation of the situation because various allies show up in the movie that don't in the book.

And who was it gave Arwen the big part? This isn't "Empire Records" :) :D
 
jj said:

Who?

Well, you do miss a lot of interesting detail by watching the movie, and also lose a bit of feeling for the desparation of the situation because various allies show up in the movie that don't in the book.

And who was it gave Arwen the big part? This isn't "Empire Records" :) :D
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That's because of the 'no REAL role-models for girls' thinking the studio probably laid down somewhere along the line; not that I didn't mind seeing her so much in the film, mind you...:)
Besides, I'll read them when I get around to them. I'm still trying to complete my Michael Moorcock collection as it is!

Of course, if it was done exactly like the books, someone might have still said, "It's not the SAME!!!" (Look at the X-Men movies: 'What?!?!? No Spandex!?' 'Logan's too TALL!! Rouge's too YOUNG!!
Patrick Stewart can walk in real life!' geeeze...)
 
NoZed Avenger said:


Ye Gods - I had repressed the horrible memory of forcing my way through this book - but you're right. . . . And it has SEQUELS.

The horror. The horror.
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I am very sorry to have imposed the memory of such a horrid book. :-) Of course, you know what they say, misery loves company. :roll:

BTW, Piers Anthony's Fractual Mode books are just as bad. Egads!! I think Piers Anthony's books continue to be printed because people still fondly remember Xanth (before it became overrun by bad puns) and Split Infinity both of which were favorites when I was a child.
 
Dinonychus said:
I'll admit right up front that I'm not as well read as most of the people whom have posted in this thread and I tend to pride myself on the fact that what I start, I finish reading. However, the one book I never got past the first chapter on was "Battlefield: Earth". It was so boring that it put me to sleep practically every time I tried to read it!

I am currently reading "The Lord of the Rings" and am stuck somewhere in the second book. Ugh. The movie moved better than the book does. Not that I'm saying it's bad, just that it has its slow points. I was planning on trying to finish the book before the third movie comes out, but I now see that is starting to become highly unlikely.
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Battlefield Earth, saw the movie, and am still regretting that!! Couldn't bring myself to read anything by L. Ron Hubbard though.

LOTR, well it was a fine story, it really was, unfortunately, Tolkien needed much, much more editing because he tended to get stuck on the most inconsequential details and it made the story drag terribly much.
 
BPSCG said:
I tried reading Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" when I was in college and we were all on the "2001" kick. It struck me as raving gibberish even though it was apparently in English. A few weeks ago I mentioned it to a friend and was relieved when he said he'd also found it incomprehensible. And all these years I thought I was intellectually stunted.
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I just tried reading "Thus Spoke Zarathustra."

I gave up reading it after the first few pages. I found it incomprehensible and so did my father and my older brother.

The concept of the book is better than the book is itself. It's got a great title.

I'll stick to listening to Richard Strauss' orchestral version of the book instead.
 
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