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

The last Harry Potter book. I read them while petsitting someone’s goldfish because the books were just there. Enjoyed the first one but that last one was just too depressing and made me want to smack the back of every character’s head.

Y'all don't hate me but the Hobbit. I couldn't read past the party, I got bored reading it.

"Holy Blood, Holy Grail" Author spent first three quarters of book "proving" how there is a conspiracy to thwart him from getting any proof that the Scion of Christ is somewhere in France and the Knights Templar are hiding him. One quarter of the book goes into proving this theory. I did finish it only out of fascination of the theory that the fact he found 0 proof of his theory proved he must be right.

Unpopular opinion, but I really disliked A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson. There were wayyyy to many extremely heavy topics that were written about in such a tone that it almost felt as if it were trying to make light of them. The characters were also so flat and the dialogue was really unbelievable. I'll probably get down voted for this XD

It was a book called "The Wild". It was disgusting. It caused all kinds of uproar in the idie author community several years ago and I decided I'd read it to see what was going on.

I wish I hadn't.

The parents take the kid(s??) on a trip, mother dies, father ends up shacking up with the daughter. So many taboos, just for the sake of taboos. It was beyond disturbing and triggering. There isn't enough bleach in the world to cleanse my brain.

Peter Pan. Peter is so unlikable

I read and loved many of Robert Heinlein's books in the 1980-90's. But I remember being unable to finish 'The Number of the Beast'. Terrible book

I recommended Heinlein to my Uncle, but told him to get any book except 'The Number of the Beast'. So of couse he bought that book and said it was a terrible book, lol.

I've not read many awful books. I'm one of those "don't try new things" people, but Without Remorse by Tom Clancy. It's a great book as an origin story. But (major spoilers) there is a character who is in a bad situation, rescued, recovered, happy and then gets brutally snuffed out halfway through. I was so disgusted I had to do a Joey and put the book in the fridge for months before I could bring myself to read the rampage of revenge that followed.

IT. Read the whole book to find out "it" was a spider. I threw the book across the room.

Of Mice and Men. I've had to read it this year for school and I just find it sad. The 2 main characters start the book with a dream of living together and being happy, but it ends (spoiler alert) with one getting getting shot by the other! I think it is ok as a book to study from, but as a book to read normally just don't bother.

a DOGS PURPOSE I SWEAR. I hated that book so much

American Psycho was terrible. Couldn’t even make it halfway through. Terrible book

Artemis Fowl (it was annoying how self centered the character was, and I felt like I was celebrating every time he made a mistake)

A wrinkle in time (Really just a boring book, mediocre characters, and a not interesting plot)

Emma (had to drag myself through the first few chapters, but it was bone dry. If it hadnt been written by Jane Austen, no one would even remember it)

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. Well-written, but it's just tragedy upon tragedy upon tragedy and I couldn't take the line "Done because we are too menny", misspelled like a child would write. When conservatives yearn for the "good old days" in our green and pleasant land, I always think: What, like the rural England in this book? Hell no.

The Grapes of Wrath… soooooo boring!

'The Great Gatsby' - boring and about despicable people living it up at the expense of others. Was torture to read (for a University course). Even 'Bleak House' was better, and that's a marathon! Dickens spins a good yarn - but a long one. Victorians, eh? Mind you, my personal reading choices are SF and fantasy, so reading 20thC mainstream does not attract me. There's little 'wonder' in it. It's like eating dull bland food when your palate yearns for spice and stimulation!

Cinder

Red Scarf Girl (to be fair this was for English class)

I started reading Virginia Woolf's "The Waves" and had to put it down early. It didn't hook me and I usually last a long time before giving up a book.
The same thing happened to me with "Ulisses" by James Joyce, but perhaps here it is more understandable, due to losses in translation, etc.

Catcher in the Rye. Just didn’t get it. A few hours wasted I’ll never see again.

how i live now by meg rosoff. dumb plot, awful writing, weird cringey incest stuff, annoying main character. did not make sense and rosoff did not use a single quotation mark which i found infuriating. 0/10