The worst book you have ever read.
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Inspired by another thread, ‘giving up on a book’ I would like to know what you would consider the worst book you have ever read?
Mine, as posted in that thread, are:
1: 'When the Wind Blows' by James Patterson. This is about, and I am not kidding, ‘secret flying children’.
2: ‘One Day’ by David Nicholls... Astonishingly awful.
So, everyone, your nominations?
Mine, as posted in that thread, are:
1: 'When the Wind Blows' by James Patterson. This is about, and I am not kidding, ‘secret flying children’.
2: ‘One Day’ by David Nicholls... Astonishingly awful.
So, everyone, your nominations?
Car Wars I think it's called and I can't remember who's it by but it was the first book I downloaded onto my kindle so I persevered.
Premise was an accountant who happened upon some dodgy accounting by a Japanese car company who are secretly trying to bring down the American auto industry by installing dodgy software into their cars making them crash killing loads of people.
But wait, our 'accountant' is actually an ex........Navy Seal! So, cue lots of retribution stylee action while getting the girl and saving 'Merica. Hoo and rah.
Seriously bad on sooooo my levels but as I was reading it I was imagining it was EricMc for some reason....
Premise was an accountant who happened upon some dodgy accounting by a Japanese car company who are secretly trying to bring down the American auto industry by installing dodgy software into their cars making them crash killing loads of people.
But wait, our 'accountant' is actually an ex........Navy Seal! So, cue lots of retribution stylee action while getting the girl and saving 'Merica. Hoo and rah.
Seriously bad on sooooo my levels but as I was reading it I was imagining it was EricMc for some reason....
I can't remember the author, but it was one of those 'airport novel' names you'd recognise
some crap about evil Americans trying to start a war and take over Britain, and the hero with his band of cockney taxi driver hard men saved the day
at one point they were in Germany "what's that dark shape over there? Oh that's the Black Forest"
utter ste
some crap about evil Americans trying to start a war and take over Britain, and the hero with his band of cockney taxi driver hard men saved the day
at one point they were in Germany "what's that dark shape over there? Oh that's the Black Forest"
utter ste
TwigtheWonderkid said:
If we are going to insult the classics, I'd say Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad was one of my most disappointing. Heavy handed expressionist nonsense written largely in sort of salty sailors' dialect for extra impenetrability.
Specifically ghost stories: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson was surprisingly un-ghosty, but certainly waffly.
The White Plague by Frank Herbert
Just so utterly dreadful in its pretensions of being a serious book about a future scenario that is it so up its own arse it could spit.
Also The French Lieutenants woman by John Fowles, a stinker of a book in which nothing, but nothing of any consequence happens, including when the main character meets the author of the book in the third person on a train.
Just so utterly dreadful in its pretensions of being a serious book about a future scenario that is it so up its own arse it could spit.
Also The French Lieutenants woman by John Fowles, a stinker of a book in which nothing, but nothing of any consequence happens, including when the main character meets the author of the book in the third person on a train.
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