Hey Pandas, What Was The Worst Book You Have Ever Read?

'Beloved' by Toni Morrison. Had to read it for a class in college. Supposed to be great.
Could barely get through it.

My inorganic chemistry text books!!!!!

Meg, by Steven Alten. There's a point in the book where the main character manages to commandeer the USS Nautilus, a floating museum no longer capable of movement and uses it to search for the shark. Tossed the book straight into the trash.

insomnia by Stephen King, so boring I couldn't finish it, sorry, I like most of his books

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.. it won the booker prize and so was interested. Plus, she is Indian.. so thought of trying her book. I could not go beyond second chapter... found nothing exceptional to continue. Nothing against her and her book.. she must be good to have followers. But just could not pick it up again.

i have read all of the Twilight books lmao 💀

This was an easy one for me: The book, Leave the World Behind.

I love to read, and while I've read so many things from really fantastic to, "ok, that was fine", this was definitely the worst book I've ever read. All the characters were unlikeable. There is no real plot. The characters do nonsensical things. The main driving force behind the conceit of the story is never explained. And the book just ends. Unresolved.

I had ordered it upon a review from NPR(and I can never trust that reviewer again). It was painful to get through and when I was done, I angrily threw it in the recycling bin, something I've never done with a book. I usually pass finished books along to other people, donate them, or keep them if I want to reread them. Not this one! My feeling was that I didn't want to contribute to another unsuspecting person wasting their time reading it, and at least the paper could be recycled into something more useful.

The Road. Or really any Cormac McArthy,

Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie. It was a disjointed, melodramatic mess.

Heart of Darkness. I had to read it in high school, and I thought, "Cool! This isn't a very long book! I should be able to finish it in a couple of days!" Nope. Not a chance. The language and wording of that book is so dense and indecipherable that I couldn't read it for more than 15 minutes without getting a throbbing headache. I just could. not. get. through it. I never finished, and have no desire ever to do so. My worst hangover was less painful than reading that book.

A dream about lighting bugs by Ben Folds. Read it on a day off and would rather have gone to work. He just comes off as your typical campus brah. And not a little misogynistic as well. Thinks he's way cooler than he is

the dictionary. everything else is just a remix now

Catcher in the Rye. I will never understand the love for this book or why it's considered a classic. If I was not forced to read it for a school assignment, I would have thrown it away and stopped reading it 50 pages in.

Thomas Harris: Hannibal. Once you've lived though that reading experience you will acquire a new appreciation for the work Ridley Scott did with the movie version. It's a so-so movie, but in comparison to the crappy novel it's a masterpiece.

I loved Robert Heinlein's books in the 1980's, except The Number of the Beast, terrible book.

But not forsake. The main character sits around judging people while her children fight to survive. Also every chapter contains a mini sermon.

Secondborn (Amy Bartol). Main character is an incredible Mary Sue and the book has such an impossible plot. Straight trash.

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. I am fully aware I am not in these books demographics, but my issue with this book is that the background and world look really interesting, but in the end is another pointless boring snowflake story of the magical orphan in a barely explored world. The sequel, however, Six of Crows, is incredible.

A Painted House by John Grisham. I’ve read all of his other books and to this day, that one just doesn’t seem “Grisham.”

"The Lovely Bones" Not that the story is bad, but dear God!! was it an absolute gut-wrencher!!!