worst book ever

[Devra]

[Shell Beau]

1. For me it was "Deception Point" by Dan Brown.

It was just too unrealistic for me.

[Richardo]

5. That's putting a fine point on it, Shell

But of Dan Brown's four non-stop crap-fests, that probably is the worst. A presidential campaign hinged on the credibility of NASA - that's ripped right out of today's headlines! :eyes:

Oh yeah, and riding a calving iceberg into the ocean where a submarine just happens to be waiting - I've heard of that really happening!

[Shell Beau]

8. Yep! It was just one ridiculous happening after another.

The submarine part really got me though!!!

[Devra]

2. I would have to say

the scarlet letter, or all quiet on the western front.

[progmom]

6. as the worst ever?

what's your supporting argument?

[Devra]

15. well they are the worst books I ever read

I guess I should change it to worst books you ever read.

both were increadibly boring (yah know its a bad book when you start hoping that everyone dies so it will be over already)

Nothing even happend in the scarlet letter. the only exciting thing in the story happened before the story starts!!!
Not to mention the fact that the guy describes eveything in too much detail. by the time you finnish reading the discription you forget what it's about

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Haven't read any of them, but I would guess that anything by Ann Coulter..

Would be pretty awful.

As for books I've actually read, I thought Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" was really boring.

[Beaverhausen]

4. "The Book of Virtues" by Bill Bennett

[freestyle]

7. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

I did not find the blasphemy, but it was horrendously long and horrendously bad.

[JimmyJazz]

9. Any of those books from the Rapture series.

:)

[madinmaryland]

14. I read some of those.

Interesting as a fantasy work, but all of the preaching got really annoying.

[JimmyJazz]

16. not to mention they were written on the third grade level of reading.

[redqueen]

10. Battlefield Earth

hands down!

[VelmaD]

27. You are 100 percent correct

Battlefield Earth is the only book I've ever started and not finished. A friend loaned it to me in college and said "you gotta read this". About 70 pages in I threw it at his head. :)

[AllegroRondo]

28. The "Mission Earth" 10 book series

I seriously believe Hubbard wrote it just to prove that people will buy 10 books if you keep writing cliffhangers at the end of every chapter.

and it actually took me until book 4 to figure this out. Why did I waste money on them?

[skygazer]

11. The "Wagons West" series by Dana Fuller Ross

So bad they were entertaining. It was a whole series with titles that all ended in exclamation points - "Independence!" "Nebraska!" "Oregon!" etc.

It told the continuing saga of a bunch of heroic pioneers settling the wild west and featured such humorous characters as an Indian who really did say, "Ugh! Me want wampum" and that sort of thing as well as women forced into prostitution and very lame hero-saves-the-day contrived situations.

Very funny but terribly, terribly bad.

[LSK]

12. i read a really lame book on the Clinton impeachment

It was anti-Clinton, but 200 pages later, I was left wondering how the hell any of what I just read proved anything.

[China_cat]

13. Blackwood Farm and those after it

by Anne Rice. Some of the one before it were crappy but there were only about 3 pages out of BF that were even readable. And I couldn't even get through the first chapter of Blood Canticle.

[lpbk2713]

17. Here's several. Take your pick ----->

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/menu/limbaugh/rushlimbaughandpoliticaltheory.guest.html

[Initech]

18. This selection was particularly ironic...

Funny because Rush is RESPONSIBLE for the closing of many American minds!

[WeRQ4U]

19. Homer's Odyssey

The original version was so damn hard to understand. I've read many derivations since, and all were better simply because I understood them. The story is great, but reading it is torture.

[Taverner]

20. Anything by Tom Clancy

Weapon Porn is all I can say

[no name no slogan]

21. "Left Behind"

'nuff said

[northzax]

22. you are all missing the big ones

the worst book ever written was certainly Genesis. I mean come on, have you read this? sure, there's some interesting stuff, but talk about needing an editor, ten pages of bob begat steve, who begat jane, who begat phil? good lord. And the crap about creating the planet, are you joking?

[terrya]

23. "The Day After Tomorrow" by Allen Folsom

The less said about that stupid piece of shit, the better.

[fudge stripe cookays]

24. "Possession" by A.S. Byatt.

Boring, flowery, and impossible to wade through.

The premise sounded great. The execution made me want to shoot myself in the head.

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[Monkey see Monkey Do]

25. "Pamela" by Samuel bloody Richardson

The longest, most tedious collection of letters ever presented as being worth reading.

[edbermac]

26. Playboy's Party Jokes...

Hef, you're great with the centerfolds, but the Party Jokes are about as funny as a root canal...