Worst book you have read

[rockyracoon]

Leading on from chaptazbru's thread about the best books you have read, what are the worst.

Mine are The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, what an absolute boring load of twaddle, this is closely followed by We Need To Talk about Kevin, which I am struggling to get through at the moment and Animal Farm by George Orwell, this I had to read at school and felt like crying everytime I was sat in my English Class.

[askyourgran]

I love reading and hope, because a book has the merit of being published, that it should contain something of interest. I carry on reading in the vain hope that the storyline will suddenly pick up. I usually have one or two books on the go, anyway and try to finish them. The ManBooker prize books are generally hard going, and I realise now they are not usually of interest to me.

[Nodger]

Daisy - I would suggest you haven't been able to finish Atonement because you have a lot more sense than me, and have probably had a few more hours of enjoyment in your life than me as a consequence.

[joggerjayne]

The Shack

Total pretentious pants.

[Mamyalynne]

Someone may have said this already, but I have never finished a book I hated, rather give up after realising it is not for me.

[sunny-dave]

Life's too short for poor books or bad wine ...

[joggerjayne]

I usually tough books out to the end, in case they pick up at the end.

But I couldn't finish The Shack. It was just utter bo11ocks.

[lady-janine]

anthing by jeffrey archer. what a bore.

[sunny-dave]

One's taste changes ... I remember reading "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" in my drug addled youth and thinking it was the dog's bits.

I had a re-read last summer and decided it was a load of unfinishable, pretentious twaddle. The truth is probably somewhere inbetween :+)

[lady-janine]

sorry anything and also tolkien and dickens.

[joggerjayne]

chickens ??

[sunny-dave]

chuffdickens?

[Nodger]

I read the first two of the Millennium trilogy on holiday, and started into the third (The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest). About a third of the way in I realized I was only reading it out of some sort of obligation (to whom? pass) so I gave up. Very liberating.

[lady-janine]

dame babs never ripped a bodice in her life. she was too well corseted.

[ladyalex]

I'm with Mamya, I give up on them if I don't like them.
Had to read stuff at school, though , like other folks and really really struggled with Thomas Hardy....I was miserable enough as a teenager. I didn't need a lot of miserable fiction to depress me further.
(No particular reason to be miserable, by the way, just being a teenager .)

[Brinjal]

Same here nodg about a third of the way in to hornets nest I gave up.

[bednobs]

i have tried and failed four times to get into game of thrones

[chaptazbru]

Da Vinci Code - too much hype and didn't live up to it imo.

[firewatch]

of mice and men, a seminal work but being made to read it at break neck speed for gcse made me hate it!!

[sophie_1003]

Wuthering Heights was the most boring thing I'd ever read, can't even remember the plot now I disliked it so much! Then again I have yet to find a 'classic' that I really enjoy that isn't a children's one!

[horseshoes]

Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans, was pretty dreadful, but Dostoyevsky's Crime & Punishment was even worse. I shouldn't have carried on reading either but it's sheer determination! Not too fussed on Dickens either.