Books I hated

It was so bad I used pages of it to line Cujos litter tray but he ended up shitting on the floor, nuff said.

HA!

hobbit. boring.
geralds game. so boring i didn't finish it.

I wonder should I post reviews on Amazon? I wonder would they give me Free Postage or something?

Gerald's Game is so annoying. On one hand, it's something to learn from, because the first bit of it so intense. I think it's the first or second or the two chapters there, first and second, where the suspense is just unreal. His idea is pretty good here, the girl tied to the bed, the dog outside. It's fucking frightening, but he knows it, King does, he knows he's busted out a perfect scene where he can do anything he wants and the suspense will always be there. What I hate about Stephen King is he never just fucking gives you anything, you have to work through pages and pages of irrelevant prose before the story develops. The sci-fi novels her husband reads, his habits with reading them, the little postcard that comes in his magazine that he was flipping through that he likes to use as a book mark. Anything he can go on about, he goes on about, giving us background information on things that are in no way essential to the story, and then it takes her twenty fucking pages to get a glass of water. She's tipping the shelf, so King has to go on for half a page about how her and her friend used to go on the teeter-totters.

It makes me forget how well he can tell a story when he really wants to, it makes me not ever want to pick up one of his books again.

The Hobbit was decent, I guess. Kind of boring. I can't read Tolkien. Him and his merry fucking hobbits and their being happy and gay and eating all day and finding cozy places to nest in on their journey. There's so many pederasty innuendos that I'm sure the man was in some way a pervert. But his prose is just boring to me. I've tried to read LOTR so many times but it's like every block of text is a wall I have to climb over and there's fuck all on the other side.

I liked The Hobbit, but gave up on LOTR after the first book. I got sick of Frodo fainting everytime there was a bit of action. (Nightrious see how I added innuendo?).

Mein Kampf. -Hitler.

Haha, Cujo's so great. Man, Derek, do you have any idea how many books you've read?

I probably haven't read nearly as many books as you guys and I can't say I really hated one either. Back in high school they made you read certain books though, gotta say I always hated those. Maybe partially because they were in Dutch, which just not interests me at all.

that reminds me of how much i hated 'johnny tremain' in jr high. i bombed on any test about that book.

My friend and I were in B&N and I was looking for a Rollins book. My friend does not read books; does not have the patience, mental fortitude, or will to read a book. As he's peering through the vast bluff-like shelves of paper packed together with a binding he finds The Canterbury Tales..... he picks it up and takes the next 25 seconds to skim through only to yell out to me:

"Man, I don't know how you do it..."
"Do what?"
"Books."

He obviously didn't understand that I wouldn't even accept a free gift copy of The Canterbury Tales, let alone go out of my way to read it.

Sup Alex.

Also, I'd like to symbolically burn a copy of "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb.

Sup Jane.

I dont know that book, what is it?

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thereve been a number of books--abortions--over the years. some i outright hated. there's an elation to flipping that last page and feeling changed. like kiss me, judas for instance. or survivor. or the slim but tortuous in the cut. and then again, there's nothing quite like flipping that last page of a book and hating god for everything.

I know alot of people liked it and its considered a classic,but I hated catcher and the rye,the only parts I liked was when he got his ass kicked,haha

not a big fan of the stranger either,super boring,then right when it gets kinda good(when hes in jail) it ends

The Road, Naked Lunch and Catcher in the Rye are the only books I've read that I hated. I only finished them so I could legally shit all over them when I talk about them later.

You guys are insane. Lord of the Rings is my favorite book(s) of all time.

Ye all shall burn for your evil ways!!

i don't know i can't hate a book, if it's dull i just quit reading it, you all are freaks.

I never finished Naked Lunch (I had to give it back when I moved) but I wholeheartedly agree with the other ones.

the only burroughs book i could read was junkie

I hated Gatsby...but you all knew that already.

When this topic comes up, Catcher in the Rye is always at the top of my list. Over time, I've forgotten a lot of details about the story but I refuse to read it again because I DO remember how much I despised it.

Very few details of books stay with me but I can't shake that feeling of slogging through a book only to turn every new page and be greeted with more disappointment.

I wish I could get Garrick in here to discuss this with you.

I was not fond of To Kill A Mocking Bird.

I know someone that named her cat Atticus and would get a tattoo of a mockingbird if she weren't afraid of the pain.

Plus, I think your opinion of this book will spark some debate with Tom.

completely agree with shitting all over catcher in the rye.

I completely agree and put The Stand in as a great example of this... it's the only time I read 800 pages of a book and abandoned it because it was that annoying to read. To make it worse, I had the unabridged version... yeah, it was edited for a reason... talk about irrelevant prose.

You're not Jane Austen, Stephen King and I don't read your stuff for literary merit. Just make with the creepy and call it a day.

I agree with Tom on Great Gatsby.
Also, Moby Dick. I hated reading that book so much.

i loved gatsby and moby dick. but it wasnt til i was a full adult and read for fun and for writing that i read them. if id have had to read them in school, i'd probably had hated them, fiercely.

I read them both for an American Literature uni paper.
You may be right Jkabol, I might possibly like them more now that I don't actually have to read them. But I'm not going to try. Espeically Moby Dick, I know that's blasphemy to some of you, but it really was bloody awful.

Oh Boy I forgot about Twilight. I read it late last year, I was hearing all these great reviews but this was from local people. I shouldnt have listened. I hated the damn thing. After finishing it I told them in my local bookstore and they thought I was nuts for hating it. BAH! Twilight. I had forgotten all about it until last weeks St Patricks Day parade, there was a Goth Kids float, I wished I had a handgrenade.

Anything by stephen King. That guys a fucking looser and I care NOTHING for him.

And chucks diary. Fuck was that bad.

and every book recommended by phil has also been shit. That AnnRyan or something, did she loose her Russia husband?

Girls should not write books for men!

P.S. What is a single man like Barca doing with such love for a cat?

Men have needs you know.

Sometimes we look at the wrong places to satisfy them.

I like you!

Can you please grow up? You've already been banned once. Don't start attacking people for no reason.

thanks! it's nice to be appreciated

It's really hard for me to not finish a book i start, but Jane Austen and Willa Cather destroy my eyes with every sentence they put on pages. Hate's a strong word, though. The only author i probably actually hate is Charles Dickens and his epic retardity. Though, the Artful Dodger is one of my favorite characters ever, i still can't forgive Dickens for the rest of it, for all of it. Heart of Darkness i think is highly overrated and mostly shit. On the Road, too, just so boring and, well, shit. Oh, and Lady Chatterly's lover. Crash, too, just awful and bizarre.
Yeah, that seems like a good enough start.

I would say I liked the catcher in the rye,
but this thread is about hated books.

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A lot of people might say they hated the DaVinci Code but i didn't really hate it as much as I was bewildered at how anybody could like it so much. I think i spent the entire time reading that book with my jaw hanging open in amazement at how bad it was written or how all the "suspenseful" bits weren't really at all.
I facepalmed myself A LOT reading that book.

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Son of Rosemary by Ira Levin was probably the worst book I've ever read.

You're lucky you're so cute and awesome, Sarah, or i'd say the same thing.
Now go read it again. And smile, goddammit!

Just read Satan Burger, hated it.
Just immature nonsense.

The Dreamers by Gilbert Adair. It was so darn boring !

Halfway Through Knockemstiff. I don't wanna say hate but I really dislike it. It is a chore to read...boring exploitive trash if you ask me.

I Heard You Paint Houses

"I'm tough. I fought alot. That's why the mob liked me."

300 pages of that.

World War Z.

Clever idea weakly executed. Took me months to finish.