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.

[Nodger]

To Daisy - re elves - I think that Oxford group was called 'The Inklings' Can't decide if that's very witty or very twee.

[DaisyNonna]

Thanks nodger, something else for me to look up!

[Philtaz]

Agree with craft about Captain Corelli's Mandolin. I gave up about 50 pages in, it was utter drivel. I never bothered with film either as a result.

[emmie]

The books great, the film was dire.

[weecalf]

Portrait of the artist as a young man all page and half of it

[Hopkirk]

When my son was little, I used to read to him at bedtime.

One time we got the first Harry Potter book, which everyone was raving about.

After one chapter we both agreed to give up on it.

[Bambiagain]

Captain Corelli's Mandarin was one I never managed to read. Like Philtaz I gave up rather quickly and never bothered with the film.

[megfitz]

Hated the one chapter I read of the Hobbit,pursuaded my OH. he should be the one to read the bed time story that month. also read and disliked The Water Babies,totally lost the plotand as for Lord of the Flies!! nuff said.

[bigbadmarty]

bravo two zero

[DaisyNonna]

Captain Corelli, no thanks.
Lord of the Flies, loved it even though it was a school set book.

[barbara1835]

Couldn't be doing with the Talk About Kevin book, don't bother to finish it, rockyracoon, it's awful. Likewise The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.

I have struggled through The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, no I didn't, I skipped a lot of it. Depressing and pessimistic, couldn't stand it.

And The Road by Cormac McCarthy? Don't even think about it.


As for The Da Vinci Code first class twaddle.

Just to be more up-beat, I love Lee Child, Jane Gardam, Winston Graham, Ann Tyler, Jonathan Tropper, Alan Bennett, but that's another thread.

[emmie]

I have it at last, Frank McCourts Angela's Ashes, it was so depressing that i lost the will to live. I did read it to the end, thinking it would lift up or get better but it didn't.

[askyourgran]

I try to persevere with a book and try to finish them. The one that didn't make it was one of the Man Booker prize books, for the life of me I can't remember the name of the author or the book, it was Dire, something about some poor Indian or Turkish chap who was pushed down a well with a dog.

[Brinjal]

Sadly all LOTR anything by Paulo Coelho Pretentious twaddle.

[HowardKennitby]

Difficult to say as if I find a book hard going I generally give up on it.
Three that come to mind are 'The White Company' by A C Doyle(long time ago), 'Making History' by Stephen Fry and 'Saturday' by Ian McEwan(both quite recently).

[DaisyNonna]

Why have I not been able to finish Atonement?

[craft1948]

I finished Angela's Ashes, but wasn't sure it was worth the effort.

[chattykathy]

I defy anyone to finish 'Dogs of War' Frederick Forsyth. I loved The day of the Jackal and Odessa File then he wrote Dogs, - agghh!!!

[HowardKennitby]

I don't get this idea of forcing yourself to finish a book. If you are not liking it then stop. There are plenty more books around.

[tenrec]

I agree with you Howard. My OH will carry on to the end moaning everyday!!!