5) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
4) The Great Gatsby
3) Grapes of Wrath
2) Tie between every Shakespeare play
1) Tess of the D'urbervilles
5-2.) Any Shakespeare play: talk about a load of illegible, overrated, half-plagiarized crap....
1.) Master and Commander: some terrible, seemingly-endless book about a ship captain that I had to read for a class.... literally every single mundane thing was described in paragraphs full of intense detail, I had to give up after a few chapters....
Guaranteed it's not as bad as Tess of the D'urberwhatever
I'm some peasant who got raped so I'm gonna spend the next 400 pages complaining about how I got raped
This thread sucks because there are 7 Harry Potter books.
Edit: Oh wait, books you've read
1. My Side of the Mountain
2. Island of the Blue Dolphins
3. Hatchet
4. Where the Red Fern Grows
5. Fahrenheit 451
Basically anything they made me read in public school.
Also as far as Shakespeare goes most of his is similar and archaic which means you don't have to read all of it. Hamlet was pretty dope and R&J was alright because they bang.
i just catch glimpses of random books so im not really good at judging a book's quality but my question is, if you don't like the book why would you waste so much time reading it through? and if you haven't read the whole book from head to bottom how would you know it is one of the worst?
I loved Hatchet and WTRFG. Two classics I actually took home to read ahead in..
master and commander was great tbh
worst book: autobiography of Malcolm X with jane eyre a close second
I can't think of five off the top of my head but I can think of one- Catcher in the Rye. What a whiny Holden Caulfield is.
1-5. Moby
Anything by James Patterson.
Any book with words in them. That might go a bit over 5
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I don't have 5 but The Road was pretty awful
Fahrenheit 451? *shaking my head* That was a pretty decent read, in my opinion. Can't hold a candle to 1984, but not bad in a vacuum.
It had flaws, but I wouldn't put it in my top 5. I thought the whole dad/son connection was well-written, even if the book suffered from a few apocalypse cliches.
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In no particular order
A Separate Peace (the most depressing story I've ever read in my life)
Pride and Prejudice (alternatively led, why the early 19th century sucked donkey balls)
Wicked (holy schnikes, this overrated piece of garbage goes nowhere)
Great Expectations (everyone is an asshole)
Rage (by Stephen King, pretty pretentious crap)
Agreed.
Catcher in the Rye is another one where I never understand why people didn't like it but I read it on my own and not because of a class requirement like most people did. The meaning of the book would probably be ruined if I had to write an essay about how Holden Caulfield uses figurative language for the meaning.
I guess I could have put Atlas Shrugged on the list but I couldn't even get 100 pages into the book. In addition to a re ed plot about the big mean gubbamint, it's atrocious writing.
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Naked Lunch--William Burroughs. For me "worst" equals "difficult" because if I'm not liking the story/content I just stop reading. I stopped reading novels about 15 years ago (save the Harry Potter series lol) but I pretty much enjoyed all the classics mentioned so far. Exceptions are Wuthering Heights, Canterbury Tales, Great Expectations, Last of the Mohicans.
I read Catcher in the Rye for my own purposes as well, and didn't hate it. Sure, the narrator is somewhat a prick, but I thought the story moved fairly well. I think Holden was written believably. Haven't read Atlas Shrugged, but I should probably give it a shot one of these years. Right now, reading the fourth book of the Game of Thrones/Fire and Ice series.
Only books I ever read that I hated were the bible and then Chacuer's Canterbury Tales for school. ing unintelligible middle English writing in the latter, and the former just droned on and on with either useless crap or stories of immature and overly-emotional sociopath god. I didn't think Shakespeare was too bad for school, though I wouldn't read that kind of stuff for any other reason most likely.
Atlas Shrugged? I think I'd rather give my balls a Brazilian with duct tape.
That book was spectacular. Do you hate your father or something?
That book was spectacular. Do you hate your father or something? Raised by a single mom, maybe?
King Lear is a pretty damn good story too. I didn't like the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin in middle school until I realized he was making most of it up, then I kinda liked it. I also disliked As I Lay Dying in college, but I think I had more of a problem with my prof who also made us buy his novella critique of it.
If I was bent on convincing myself that I never needed help from anyone and was completely self-sufficient the day I turned 18, I would have loved Atlas Shrugged
That's why Paul Ryan loved it so much. To this day he believes he's not at all a product of having a rich mommeh and daddeh. Even though he only worked at McDonalds when he was 16 because mommeh was tired of him doing nothing during Summer break other than making her clean towels every day that he used while staring at pictures of Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged convinced him he's a rags to riches story who went from McDonalds to Congress without having anything handed to him.
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