Originally by back in 09, hope they don't mind. Thought i might try to bring it back. This thread was intended for users to write other books they hate, besides just twilight.

I guess I'll start. I can't remember the book title but it was a book by jim butcher about Harry having to have relations with another character to, "save them." I kept thinking, that was stupid. Then later in the series we find he has a daughter from her and i was just like..wow...this is how they bring Susan back? Did she need to be brought back at all? Why was she even introduced in the book? Idk:P

'The Savior' and 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas' are two of the WORST WWII books I have ever read.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy was awful. I also read No Country for Old Men last month and it was only marginally better (just not a McCarthy fan, I guess).

All the King's Men was dull.

idk, those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Skyborn and Fireborn by David Dalglish

I love this man's work but that series there was just awful... The writing was fine don't get me wrong but the whole concept was just done poorly and I found myself not as engrossed as I was with his Shadowdance series. This one was just... it had such promise too but by the end end of book 2 I just skimmed the last 5 chapters and gave up on giving a damn about the characters....

King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence was another piece of junk.... which is a shame because the first book was pretty good. By the second book I just got so sick and tired of the love interest being mentioned. Never before have I disliked a character so much.... By the time I got to book 3 I couldn't even start it. I read the prologue ... got so put off by how incredibly dumb it was... and just didn't even bother.

I try and get as far into a book as I can ... but sometimes it just isn't happening.

man-stealing (or was it boyfriend-stealing?) for fat girls. don't remember the author. the main character just randomly lost her virginity to a stranger cos she just wanted to have sex, i was so mad that i threw the book across the room because "that's not how real life is!". then it happened to me irl less than 6 months later.

"Effie Briest" by Theodor Fontane

Waaay back I had the task to read it for school over the summer holidays but just couldn't bring myself to do so because everything was just horrible imo and made me aggressive. We wrote a test about it, too but I didn't care, one bad grade was better than going through this pile of crap. XD

The Katherine "Kitty" Katt series by Gini Koch.

You can probably guess by the main character's name that she's a mega Mary Sue, which she totally is. Not to mention other awful campy characters, ridiculous plots (with a crap-ton of holes in them), and yeah... Granted, I wasn't expecting it to be the next great novel of the century or anything, and the premise initially sounded amusing: a mash-up of aliens, "rock n' roll," conspiracies, Men in Black style? If only. Instead it's a know-it-all, super snarky yet always brilliant and just the best at everything, plus all the guys want her even though she's got the alien sex god (who's actually creepy and needy and just pure ugh) "heroine." The humor wasn't even humorous. And don't get me started on the info-dumps and repeated abuse of deus ex machina.

I don't even know how I lasted four books but I felt like my brain cells were starting to melt away the longer I tried to stick it out. Glad I quit. But there's already 15 books out in this awful series. Just...WHY?!!!

I've been trying to get into the Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss several times now (I've read the first book and tried to start the second one) but gOD I just have no sympathy whatsoever for the series' protagonist, and he's just... ridiculously overpowered to the point it gets boring?

I will probably try to reread these someday again because I have so many friends who enjoy these books, but right now, all I get out of reading them is far too much tooth-grinding and metaphorical grey hairs.

I read the first book and some parts were "ok" but by the end I just wanted it over. I didn't care for the "love" interest or the student..... Book 2 I read like 3 pages and threw the book down and gave up.

Good luck to you if you can manage to read and finish the series.

(Also I hope I got the series correct.... it's so late here and I'm half awake... ;; )

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who had this reaction! All I keep hearing is praise for this series (the Name of the Wind + The Wise Man's Fear), I just... .. . Kvothe makes me want to snore, the only character I find even remotely interesting is Bast, ngl. ___

Oh right, I've had Name of the Wind kicking around forever and have yet to start it for real.. I keep getting a few chapters in and then totally forgetting. I will maybe give it one more shot though.

The worst book I think I've ever read was.. Thinner, by Richard Bachman (Stephen King). I think I was just kind of in a bad mood at the time anyways (airports, yay) but it just seemed so unbelievably stupid and went absolutely nowhere.

I read Thinner and enjoyed it, but then my best friend read it and pointed out how creepy the dad's thoughts about the daughter got a couple times. So now I'm like. Eeeh. Yikes.

I don't recall the name of the book nor the author but I guess I just wanted to forget it as quickly as possible.

It's based on Sherlock Holmes and takes place after Reichenbach. Turns out Moriarty isn't dead and as Watson goes to speak to Colonel Moran in prison who is executed shortly after he tells Watson that he and Moriarty weren't just criminals but the author felt the need to turn them also into rapists and something really close the pedos. It was thoroughly disgusting and didn't serve any purpose but to make the ready go 'ew'. Not to mention that Moriarty doesn't lift a finger to save his right hand man although Moran confirms that Moriarty had made deals with the prison guards in the past to have criminals released/replaced.

It was atrocious tripe and I just wanted to toss the book afterwards. Ugh.

Make Me by Lee Child

I like some of his books but this one was full of such horrific stuff, I threw it away.

Does Fifty Shades of Grey still count as Twilight? Because it was awful. I couldn't even finish the first book. The only reason I got my hands on it was because my fiance's coworkers were all saying how amazing it was >< Worst purchase ever.

I really want to like 'Lolita' (Vladimir Nabokov) but I've tried it twice now and never finished it to the end. I don't hate it, but I just can't seem to get past the first couple of chapters without losing interest.

I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan is a book I really wanted to like because the premise is so much fun, but his writing style is just insufferable. It's so disjointed and rambling, I can't get anywhere with it.

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson. It came highly recommended by a friend and had a lot of positive reviews, but I really disliked it. I got through it but by 70% I was really looking forward to it ending. The society seemed intriguing but worldbuilding was totally lacking and all of the characters seemed hollow and unrelatable, I just didn't care about anyone.

There's a book called Fluency by Jennifer Foehner Wells, again recommended to me by a friend (I think the author is a friend of theirs or at least on the same publishing company). The premise is intriguing and it wasn't the worst book I'd ever read, but the narrative voice was like reading fanfiction and I was like ^^;

I kind of had the same reaction to Lolita. I've tried at least twice and it just can't hold my concentration.

I couldn't get through A Wrinkle In Time. I wanted to, because I love fantasy and it's a classic but... it's just so weird, and I couldn't connect with the main character at all.

I hated Eldest, the second Eragon book, because that's when I figured out it was just star wars with dragons. (I would have figured it out in the first book except that I hadn't watched star wars yet) And because the love story was making me sick. I eventually decided to finish the series anyway, loved the third book, and hated the fourth, because it was just so slow and Eragon had become this unrelatable elf hybrid. I also hated the ending. I then challenged myself to come up with a plot that kept the main elements and the main characters in the book without just piggy backing off of star wars, and came up with a complete and satisfactory plot change, all within the time it took me to take a shower. It also had a better ending. I don't remember the details of it but it had something to do with telling the story at a different point in the land's history or something. Which convinces me that the author is just lazy about plots. Honestly Eragon's cousin Rorin was the best part and the only way I got through Eldest was in anticipation of when the story would go back to him.

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater. It's basically in the same vein as Twilight, but with werewolves, and worse. I think I actually liked Twilight at the time, even.

This quote, a thousand times. The overpowered protagonist. Oh god.

And I only started reading because a friend insisted it was very good, and tried telling me how being overpowered was balanced by his immaturity etc. So I said, ok, some day I will read the sequel to that. Can't remember how long it has been. Never touched the sequel.