BigDMcGee 3,367 Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Please don't pick books "inspired" by movies, comics, roleplaying games or the like. Books like that are simply too easy to hate.1) Left behind. Number one with a bullet. It boggles my mind that this series is a best seller. The american public really must not be able to read, because this series is just staggeringly poorly writen. Insanely unrealistic, absurd dialouge and character development. Just the worst. The movie stars Kurt Cameron as the male lead. As bad as the movie is ( and it's well bad) it's a better movie than the book is a book.2) The wheel of time series ( particularly after book 4) I started this series as a youth. And I liked it. Looking back, I'm not sure if the first books were really that good at all, or if I was just a young kid. I mean, they did have really repetitive writting, repeating the same ways of describing things and people. They all had the adolecent view of sex and sexuality. But they still seemed kinda fun, and big and epic. But then book 4 rolled around, then five, then six, then seven, then eight. More and more and more charagters were introduced, and less and less actually happened in the books, and it became clearly apparent that the wheel of time wasin't big for artistic epic value, but big just to sell more books. THe books are just filled with filler. This series should be three books long, not 11 ( and counting). Mercifully, I've been able to tear myself away from this series. If you want more review, please go to amazon. The user reviews put it best. Terrible series.3) Clear and present Danger. I hate Tom Clancy. His writing ( if he even writes his own books any more, which I doubt. Most writers that are brands like Clancy, and Steven King, and John Grisham have teams of ghost writers that actually write the books..) is just freaking terrible. The action is ludicris and boring. I hate "thriller" books in general, and Clancy is exactly why.4) Old Jules, By Mari Sandoz. Iread this book in middle school. It's about this old farmer who beat his wife with barbed wire, and shot ranchers in western nebraska. We had to read it because we were doing a nebraska history section in my english/social stuidies hybrid class, and Nebraska has such a void of literary talent ( Wila Cather being our most shining star) that we read this peice of crap because there was nothing else to choose from. the main character was completely unsympathetic, and not in a cool way, and I didn't give a shit about his stupid farm, and his stupid war with ranchers. I'm sure no one outside of nebraska has ever read this abomination.5) All Steven King's Dark Tower books after the first one. Again, King was a childhood love, and I dodn't really know if the books that I liked were really that good, or if I was young, but I'll still stand by books like "The Stand" and IT and the Shining. I think they are solid horror. The first Dark Tower, however was freaking briliant. Not like any other thing king ever wrote. Magical, post appoaclytical and old western epic. Just perfect. Which is why the rest of the Dark Tower series, the progressively more steaming pile of crap that it is, was so disappointing. I stopped reading after book four, as it had completly turned into just another late king book. AKA Trash.Edit: I should have specified Novels. Otherwise Play Poker like the Pros would be number one.Double Edit: Please strike "Old Jules" from this list, and add Divinci Code. best sellers generally boggle my mind, I Have no earthly clue how they can possibly sell so much, except that the american public is very stupid. Expect, I would think that if they were really that stupid, why would they read at all? I mean, TV is much easier and less straining on the mind than reading, you'd think the people who love the Divinci Code would just turn on the boob tube and veg out. There must be a special subclass of stupid in the US, that likes to read, but their mind has been so dulled by TV and magazines that they can't handle too much effort, so the Divinci Code, and Grisham, and later King, and Clancy just click with them.The Divinci code is cheesey, abusrd, terrible, terrible tripe,. Terrible dialouge, terrible character development, terrible history, terrible plot, Just bad bad bad. Also, I'd like to mention the Celestine Prophesy. I had a very intelligent female friend of mine give this to me to read, someone I love and respect. I couldn't believe what a steaming pile of new age bull sht it was. It's philosophy for people who like to think they are smart and thoughtful, but really don't want to think too hard. Fcking garbage.triple edit: I noticed the title of this thread starts with "5 five" Go captain redundant me. Link to post Share on other sites
zimmer4141 0 Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Great Expectations. God was that a borefest. Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,367 Posted January 14, 2006 Author Share Posted January 14, 2006 Great Expectations. God was that a borefest.hahah I remember hating that as a kid. I have a feeling I would like it more now than then, but perhaps not. I also hated the abridged verion of Les Mis that we read. The orginal is like 1000 pages, but the abridged version is 200. nad it read like it. Terrible, boring book. Link to post Share on other sites
buzbrad11 0 Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 1) Of Mice and Men - I did not enjoy steinbeck2) The Wars - We had to read this in school, it was horrible, written by Timothy Findley3) 20 Years After - The sequel to the three musketeers, it was so very long and boring, not Dumas' best work...that is all I can think of at the moment, I imght think of others. Link to post Share on other sites
76clubs 0 Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 I had to read the bean trees for english. it had drool marks in it after i was done Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,367 Posted January 14, 2006 Author Share Posted January 14, 2006 I had to read the bean trees for english. it had drool marks in it after i was doneoh man, barbra kingsolver sucks ass.. I had to read that piece of crap in 11th grade when I read all these crappy books by women authors.Man, I hate women authors in general. Maya Angelou is the only one that I've read that I like. Link to post Share on other sites
zimmer4141 0 Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Also, I had to read Faust last year. It's supposed to be good, I just couldn't stand it. Link to post Share on other sites
JBradburn6 0 Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 The Notebook. The movie was 10X better. Link to post Share on other sites
JBradburn6 0 Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 1) Of Mice and Men - I did not enjoy steinbeckThat's a shame, it's a great book and Steinbeck's a great author. Try reading it again in 5 years, and see if you like it any more then. Link to post Share on other sites
bigkg 0 Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Pride and Prejudice Link to post Share on other sites
econ_tim 0 Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Also, I had to read Faust last year. It's supposed to be good, I just couldn't stand it.read it in german, ya donk! Link to post Share on other sites
reverbse 0 Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Man, I hate women authors in general. Maya Angelou is the only one that I've read that I like.now i don´t know what you like (only what you dislike), but there´s a good chance that here´s another one you´ll enjoy..http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080213781...glance&n=283155definitely in the top 3 of books of the last years IMO.everyone, read this book! Link to post Share on other sites
RonBurgundy 0 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 most dickens stuffbrave new world (didnt hate it, just thought it was very overrated) Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,367 Posted January 15, 2006 Author Share Posted January 15, 2006 I really liked Brave new world.. Stranger in a Strange land I thought was terribly overrated. Link to post Share on other sites
Dirtydutch 9 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Anna Karenina. Maybe it was a bad translation, but I barely got through it.Tom Clancy sucks.Also, the Sweet Valley High series. Link to post Share on other sites
nickforgot 0 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Captain Underpants and the perilious plot of professor poopypants, couldve been the worst in the series, the story plot, and creatvity was lacking and i just feel dissapointed after reading it Link to post Share on other sites
thrope 0 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 so you liked wheel of time but its on the list just cuz they wrote 8 books too many?i got through like 4 books and it was definitely tailing away, buti enjoyed the 4 i read......barbara kingsolver = worst author evermy female english teacher in 10th grade would cry while reading parts of her books outloud to us. **** that shit. she wrote books for lonely 35 year old single women. bleh Link to post Share on other sites
fryer98 30 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 My 5 worst would be my 5 best, because I think I've only read about 5 books. Link to post Share on other sites
gkunit20 1 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 1) "Lord of the Flies"2) "A Tale of Two Cities"3) Anything by Tom Clancy4) Anything written after 1975 by Phillip K Dick. This is when he went crazy.5) "State of Fear" Easily Micheal Crichton's worst book. And I'm a huge Crichton fan. Link to post Share on other sites
RonBurgundy 0 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 lord of the flies wasnt that bad. Link to post Share on other sites
gkunit20 1 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 lord of the flies wasnt that bad.I couldn't stand reading it for English. Link to post Share on other sites
zimmer4141 0 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 most dickens stuffbrave new world (didnt hate it, just thought it was very overrated)I thought Brave New World was interesting, but was kinda weird. Good book overall though. Link to post Share on other sites
RonBurgundy 0 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 most dickens stuffbrave new world (didnt hate it, just thought it was very overrated)I thought Brave New World was interesting, but was kinda weird. Good book overall though.it just came off as very heavy-handed to me. huxley wrote it very early in his career and later said he was embarassed of it. Link to post Share on other sites
buzbrad11 0 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 1) Of Mice and Men - I did not enjoy steinbeckThat's a shame, it's a great book and Steinbeck's a great author. Try reading it again in 5 years, and see if you like it any more then.I'm not too worried about it, not my style. Link to post Share on other sites
Longshanks 0 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Also, I had to read Faust last year. It's supposed to be good, I just couldn't stand it.was ist das mephestophelis sie werden sturben die komfrombonnhoffer! Link to post Share on other sites
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