I agree, had to do that for my GCSEs. So infuriating as I don't understand how a book with such amazing characters, and a decent plot can be so so so SO incredibly dull.....

Don't worry, his opinion doesn't count for anything. If you want evidence, do a post search on him.

I actually can't think of any books I really hated, but I remember being quite dissatisfied with The Accidental by Ali Smith, because I'd read good reviews of it, but when I was reading it I just felt like I was wasting my time.

I remember not liking Animal Farm when I had to read it for school, but that was probably because I was 15 and it took me about two hours to read. I liked it better when I read it later on. I also had to read this book called 'The Wave' or something, which was some crap about a neo-Nazi group in a high school. The only reason we read it was that our teacher was Jewish. It was so lame.

I didn't like Girl, Interrupted much either, I'm sorry to say, even though it was a memoir. I just thought the movie was so much better. Even though it wasn't entirely true to the book, it was much more interesting.

I heard good things about Charles Bukowski books but they just weren't to my taste at all. Too...bleh.

That's about all I can think of. Usually if I don't like a book I just give it back to the library and forget about it.

Julian Barnes - talking it over. It reeks of fakery, esp as it's meant to be autobiographical. Maybe I hate it because i liked some earlier stuff and it's a disappointment. Hi-Fidelity by Nick Hornby, narrator was up his own bum and loving it; sensitive my arse. Liked the film though, made for film really, seeing as it was so slight. I couldn't finish White Teeth, so i can't really include it.

Bukowski's short stories and poems are much better than his novels.

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Hmm, okay. I might give them a try then.
I just re-read my last post, I hope I didn't sound like a dick. It's just that that teacher would always go on about being German and Jewish and she could never get my name right. And she was weird and I heard later on that she has crabs and would publicly scratch herself.
So I don't have anything against Jewish people, just her.

I usually plow through a book I don't like just to get it over with, but I couldn't finish 1984.

Maybe I'll give it another try some other time.

I doubt it's the worst book I've read, but it's what comes to mind.

Agreed.
Catcher in the Rye...terrible terrible book.

waiting for godot.

it absolutely bored me to death.

Lord of the Flies is brilliant.

worst book ever is Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet. It makes no sense at all. Genuinely no sense. Not even a bit of sense.

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I wanted to like Candy by Terry Southern...but...it sucked. Big time.

Mein Kampf. ~ Adolf Hitler
Pure self indulgent drivel.
After the first page it was definitely an up-hill "Kampf"

Childhood worst.
The secret life of Walter Mitty
Annoyed the fuck out of me back then.

Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor
A lot of the jokes started"Now you should really never tell this one...
And I ended up telling really bad jokes for the next year.

The Scarlet Letter. I just couldn't get into it.

the da vinci code, out of choice, i though i would see why it was so popular

the adventures of huckleberry finn, for school when i was about 14. i just didn't like it but i think what made it worse was my very irish teacher read it out loud to us...with a southern american accent...and a higher pitch for women....it really annoyed me. .

Absolutely agree

It's a toss-up:

"The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen; and
"Vinegar Hill" (forgot the author)

horrible books; waste of my time.

*rolls around laughing*
OMG, that would have been very funny for about 5 minutes, but anymore really annoying. Id love to have heard that because most Irish people are rubbish at redneck drawls.
You poor poor thing...

What was Vinegar Hill about?

Was it,per chance, about an Irish revolution?

yes. yes he was.
he also did this for romeo and juliet, the plough and the stars and an evil cradling. it was slightly more tolerable for these as i was interested in the actual story

the great gatsby and wuthering heights are without a doubt two of the best books i've ever read.

angels and daemons by dan brown is the worst i've ever read.

edit. Catcher in the rye is brilliant too, i can't see how anyone could dislike them, even if they were forced at gun point.