Worst Books You've Ever Read...

My least favorite book that I have finished is probably Ender's Game. I read it based on the recommendations of many posters here, and I could not have been more disappointed. I thought every part with Ender in it was terrible, and the only parts I enjoyed were the sections about his siblings.

 

don't like Zora myself
Toni Morrison's Jazz and Sula were hell on the eyes

I loved Songs of Solomon though

Rocket River

 

What was Jim Morrison's book of poetry called. I actually like the Doors(most of the time) but that book of poetry was some of the worst I've ever read.

 

The Scarlet Letter put me to sleep.
Hawthrone is so long winded.

 

"New Grub Street"

If anyone here has even heard of this, I will eat a plate.

 

Man, some of the books named here are great. Catch-22 I couldn't put down. Faulkner's great. Joyce -- well Joyce is a self-important egomaniacal fathead. Hawthorne is great though.

It's heard for me to come up with a worst book, because I'll stop reading if it's bad. There are a couple memorable ones though: Mao II by Don Delillo -- it had such a nice cover too. The Cloud (I think that was the name). I read it for a Philosophy of Sci-Fi class (the book was out of print, so the prof xeroxed his own copy for us). It had some interesting sci-fi stuff in it -- this cloud that was alive and had sentience as a unit together, but not separately. But, the prose was atrocious. Likely, it was a science-type that thought anyone could write a book. The whole book was people asking the protagonist, "Professor, do you know why x, y, z?" And, the professor, "why, yes I do. You see...." Terrible. I can't believe it had once found a publisher.