whats the worst book you ever attempted to read?

Originally posted by Bardock42
How.....proletarian of you.

wow 😠 how nice of ya to judge that quickly, dont u understand whole point this thread is, whats the worst book you ever attempted to read, well its whole point, i told everyone what i think of that book, yea its worst one, and i aint lowest person, i own over 400 books, i treasure all of them, that book is worst one, it better be off from my collection... i even have other worst book, i havent read it yet but yes i have watch that movie, its interesting, but someone told me its worst book, i dont know, its called Lord of the Flies, i watch that movie, i pitied that Ralph.... proletarian i look up in dictionary, it means lowest citzien who serve for state... whatever its in Roman Empire... we all are in Freedom Time, its my words, thank you for judging.... no need to judging, other worst book i have read is Lord of the Rings.... i almost sleep on that one....

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
You were a lonely child, weren't you?

making layered associative puns with a literary referential base doesn't net many points in the pre collegiate phase.

Originally posted by zeldaboyz
wow 😠 how nice of ya to judge that quickly, dont u understand whole point this thread is, whats the worst book you ever attempted to read, well its whole point, i told everyone what i think of that book, yea its worst one, and i aint lowest person, i own over 400 books, i treasure all of them, that book is worst one, it better be off from my collection... i even have other worst book, i havent read it yet but yes i have watch that movie, its interesting, but someone told me its worst book, i dont know, its called Lord of the Flies, i watch that movie, i pitied that Ralph.... proletarian i look up in dictionary, it means lowest citzien who serve for state... whatever its in Roman Empire... we all are in Freedom Time, its my words, thank you for judging.... no need to judging, other worst book i have read is Lord of the Rings.... i almost sleep on that one....

Anyhow, I agree with the Lord of Flies selection; it was a bit hard to get into, but worth it in the end. As for the worst book I've attempted to read... I haven't come across one that deserved that title, but I'll say The Scarlet Letter came close to it. I couldn't get pass the first page.

Here are my 2 winners by a landslide:

Pamela - Samuel Richardson
Leviathan - Hobbes

"under the skin" by a **** i cant remember the name of 😒

I think it was my 1st Jane Austen read n I was terrified.I couldn't get through the 1st page! But now after readin pride n prejudice of hers, I can't believe I couldn't read that 1.I don't remember it's name right now though.

Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, could not get into it

I tried 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea, but I found it way too boring. It really beats around the bush talking about different species of oyster. I never did make it to the giant squid part.

Lolita. I can't recall the author. Horrible, horrible read! I got to about the 40 - 50th page and gave up. Nothing but a pedophile facing prosecution.

I remember that book now.It was 'Persuasion' by Jane Austen.

The Mole rat letters. it is a terrible book. it is a preteen book really. but it is terrible

Originally posted by K Tragedy
Lolita. I can't recall the author. Horrible, horrible read! I got to about the 40 - 50th page and gave up. Nothing but a pedophile facing prosecution.

The author is Nabokov.

Our reading tastes must run completely opposite. I think "Lolita" is probably one of the five or so finest novels I've ever read.

Don't fall into the trap that so many have fallen into when reading this book by mistaking the author (Nabokov) for the narrator (Humbert Humbert). Nabokov was probably the farthest thing imaginable from a pedophile. Humbert Humbert is a classic example of the "unrealiable" narrator, much in the same vein as Swift's Lemuel Gulliver or Chaucer's Chaucer in Canterbury Tales. Humbert Humbert's rationialization of his pathology is the subject of Nabokov's humor just as much as the vain efforts of the various busy body educators and amateur psychoanalysts to affect a happy ending.

Nabokov revels in the construction of narrative labyrinths in which to hurl his hapless characters. Lolita, or the Confessions of the White, Widowed Male, is a fictional memoir written by the convicted pedophile during the reprieve before his sentencing. He is trapped behind bars. But, more importantly, he is trapped behind his own need to exonerate himself and to obscure his own moral responsibility and inner need. Lolita is a maze constructed by Humbert Humbert, or Shadow Shadow, to conceal the horror of himself from...well, himself.

It should be noted that the in the final irony of the novel, of which there are too many to count, the bumbling Humbert Humbert sees through his labyrinth of self-deception and, unwittingly, achieves a sort of moral self-knowledge.

He dies of coronary thrombrosis (a broken heart).

The wost books I have ever read are without a doubt Snowfall by K.M Peyton and Just Ella by Margaret Haddix. I don't know what those two authors were going for, and maybe I'm just not intuned to their "ideas" or writing expertise, but all I got was a bunch of mindless drabble, un-emotional and too perfect characters from both of them. 🤨

i dont like anything written by women... lady authors are terrible IMO

Not counting Anne Rice and Danielle Steel, "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles. Flat-out refused to finish reading that piece of tripe.

Harry Potter

the most awful book i have ever read was the gatekeeper series by anthony horowitz but i like the alex rider series he made

war and peace

The Bible

Yeah! Fight the system.