Books You Didn't Like

[Igg]

The Lord Of The Rings is absolutely fantastic, ask yourself this.
Will Rowling be remembered in one hundred years?
.

Probably.

[Maryann]

I just know I'm going to get yelled at for this But I cannot stand The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I sarted reading it and it was so boring and just well...you get the point

I have a problem reading that book too. Yes it's funny, yes it's hilarious, but it's just one joke strung in front of the other, on and on and on until even randomness and hilarity become stale.

Oh yes, I completely agree. I read the first book and thought it was funny, but eventually it just gets so random that it's boring. The movie was horrible too. It's just... random. o_0

[Paul]

Of Mice and Men. It was so utterly pointless and not worth my time that I haven't picked it up since.

I liked the book. Not an all-time favourite, but I liked it. I don't really hate any books, then again, I don't read a lot now, but one book I wouldn't pick up is "An Inspector Calls", even if it was a play.

[Bangel]

Redwall and the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe series.

[Nani]

The Big Wave. It's a 50-page or so book about a tsunami that we read in what, 5th grade? The fact that I can still remember it should tell you something about how horrible it was.

Oh, and just about anything by Natalie Babbit, with The Eyes of the Amaryllis topping the list.

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[Maryann]

Redwall and the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe series.

I loved the first book in the Narnia series (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe) but the rest of them got a bit dull for me. The only other one I enjoyed was the last one. I forgot what it's called.

Looking forward to seeing the movie, though.

[theonlysaneone]

Practically everything I've ever read for class, including such works as: The Grapes of Wrath, The Jungle, The Age of Innocence, Babbit, etc.

Same with me! The school always gives you boring books to read -_-, right now my for my english class we have to read a book called Nothing but the Truth, it sucks, and it doesnt make any sense. I only like books that can entertain me or else i get bored of it.

I actually kind of liked that book. I'm not sure why, but it was a quick read, and made a lot of sense.

However, we read several books in school that were tough to get through:

Jane Eyre-- This book is the epitome of god-awful feminist literature. Aside from the one major plot twist, the book was extremely boring, and as a guy, I didn't even read the whole thing. The only person in my class who did was the neo-feminist girl who wears African dresses (even though she's not African) and doesn't shave her armpits.

The Joy Luck Club-- Not as bad as Jane Eyre, but still hard to read. I got through this one, but mainly because it was the majority of my semester exam, on which I needed an A to keep my perfect GPA. There were actually a couple of moderately funny jokes in this one, and I liked the book's structure.

Great Expectations-- Not something I had when I started reading this book. Once I heard that Charles Dickens was paid by the word for writing it, I quit reading. That happened around the beginning of Part 3. Needless to say, it lived up to my expectations. Also, the characters spoke in dialect. I can't stand dialect (especially when people portray Texans as saying y'all all the time. Yes, we use that word, but only when it's necessary).

[Matt]

The Silmarillion, and to a lesser extent Lord of the Rings. Honestly, it's like reading the Bible.

Thomas Hardy. Urgh. The only book read in English I've morbidly despised (and never read).

Lemony Snicket makes me really sick, but he knows how to make plot hangers.

Finally, I would have to say that Carl Hiaasen, although readable ain't too great.

[Divine]

Lemony Snicket makes me really sick, but he knows how to make plot hangers.

I agree with you on that XD.

Oh, and on Narnia... I read The Magician's Nephew when I was younger. At the time, the title was very appealing to me, but my friend told me that it wasn't good despite the title. But I didn't listen to her and I read it anyways... and I hated it XD. That book destroyed the whole series for both of us... we haven't read any of the others =P.

And... anyone heard of O. R. Melling? Omgosh, I can't stand her books. The Summer King was okay, but The Book of Dreams was so overly-descriptive, had annoying characters, and dragged out 'til forever. Honestly, I don't even remember what the plot was about... x_x.

[xredchipx]

I did not liek the Cay to much lol I sitll remember it for some reason I remember the books I hated and don't remmeber the ones I liked. But is was weird.

[Ellaie]

Emma (by Jane Austen): It was so immensely boring that I had to sit down and force myself through it. It had a whole chapter about a piano. I had read Jane Eyre a year before and thought that that was bad. Unfortunately, Emma made Jane Eyre sound like exciting reading ^^;

[maniac]

I started reading Emma after reading Pride and Prejudice (which I liked) .... I gave about half way through the second chapter!

Tarka the Otter. Very boring. Don't read it. Ever. It had these long descriptions that go on for pages and pages, and lets face it - how interesting can an otter's life be anyway?

[Dragonfire]

Jane Eyre is so boring. I tried forcing myself to read the first chapter, and I fell asleep on page 5, and I had the TV up kinda loud.

Some of the other English books at the time I read them were bad, but now I look back I thought they were quite good. However, one of the other books I couldn't stand was The Scarlet Letter. Bleh.

Oh, and don't kill me, but I think that A Separate Peace is quite good. I had to read it my sophomore year (didn't read the whole thing), and again my senior year. I've found that if you read a book twice that you originally hated, you like it.

[Asthaloth]

The Da'vinci code.

What. The. Frak.

"ZOMG This book is teh winingnesss!!1!1!11oneshifteleven!1!"

Okay. Fine, I'll read the thing.
It was absolutely horrible.
And the ending, what the heck kind of ending is that!

But i descend into madness.

[TDG]

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Digital Fortress was stupid. They spend the whole book searching for something and then they don't need it in the end and they solve it in about three minutes <_<

Dan's other books I like, just not D.F.

Oh, and the Prometheus Deception by Robert Ludlum. I mean, it was a good book, but I found the fact that Dunne was evil was kinda predictable...

...oh, and the Hobbit and the LotR trilogy. Hate them (including the movies) with a passion...