some of the worst books you've read

[ibm]

http://vonunov.nu/voracious/divergent.php

It made a decent if shallow movie (good for a high afternoon) but the book was just painful.

I haven't read them but I have assumed The Hunger Games is similar. Same with Twilight and other bullshit trendy books.

[Poast]

Count Of Monte Cristo was pretty boring. Just goes on and on.

[millionsofdeadcats]

A tale of two cities

[Siu3d]

Pretty much anything written by Dean Koontz.

[Prometheus]

House of Stairs. Crappy sci-fi by an author who was entirely too impressed by his own cleverness.

The Illuminatus Trilogy. I know a lot of people love it, but I got halfway through it before deciding that the whole point of the book was the author fucking with his readers.

Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand. Another sci-fi 'classic' that a lot of people love. I think it won some awards too, but I couldn't stand it. Interesting premise, but something about the writing style drove me up a wall.

[stentor]

Communist Manifesto. It's not like it was poorly put together or anything, reading anything that has to do with communism is just really boring and monotonous.

[equanimity]

Island of the Blue Dolphins.  No idea why I remember this, but we read it in 5th grade and I hated it.

[Arnox]

Twilight I think. So insanely disappointing.

Hey, here's a cool world of werewolves and vampires in the modern day! Not the most original thing exactly but the groundwork is certainly there. Oh wait, nevermind. It's just a terrible teeny bopper vampire love story. People like to give Harry Potter crap about being somewhat childish and stick it together with twilight. And considering the first two books, I can actually understand that. However, I just want to quote Stephen King here.

Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.

[Prometheus]

Island of the Blue Dolphins.  No idea why I remember this, but we read it in 5th grade and I hated it.

Literally the only thing I recall about that book is how much I hated it. Just the other day my ladyfriend brought up how much she hated it too.

[stentor]

Dollar Tree romance novels

[Rationahl]

Catcher In the Rye

Any book that has an author whose last name ends in stein, Kline, Weiss, or berg