Shit books

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

Following on from the Da Vinci Code thread. What books have you read which have just turned out to a steaming pile of crap?

Number one on my all time shit list is Prey by Michael Crichton. Some of the writing was junior school level and I was genuinely relieved when it ended.

I'm here all night, let's have 'em!

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

The bible

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

The bible

seconded

and Harry Hill's - Flight to Deathrow - What the f*** was that book about, I got completly lost about what was going on about 2 pages in and by the end i hadnt the faintest idea what was going on and what had happened.

 

[bhaexpress]

Anything by Tolkien and Harry Porter is a kid's book don't ya know ?

 

[NMH]

Everything by Carlos Castaneda, worthless druggy wimperer always bangin' on about getting high on peyote and trolling about like he was Kwiang Kane from Kung Fu.
He's really just a miserable little tramp that wanted a good kicking.

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

Catcher in the Rye.

This book's 'hero' made me want to scratch my own eyes out, just so I would have been spared having to read his simpering, sulking, hackneyed moping around. Not totally sure if a shit character makes a shit book, but by the time I finished this all I wanted to do was slap some sense into the little shit. I was left wondering what all the fuss was about quite frankly.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Crime and Punishment.

One of the most ridiculuosly wordy piles of dross ever written. Why use one word when 3 chapters worth of words will do? Long and very, very boring.

 

[Commander]

The Koran

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Anything by Tolkien and Harry Porter is a kid's book don't ya know ?

Have you read them?

 

[dougdeep]

I can't read mate.

 

[Yorkie]

Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

The book covers the war over many many chapters and then the last 40 years in one chapter with a silly twist which made you wonder why on earth you bothered reading the previous chapters at all.
Some of the chapters are just a monologue by one of the characters which doesn't really add to the story.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Football Factory.

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

I don't believe any non-lobotomised human could read Timequake, by some bloke whose name escapes me ... utter turgid, pretentious nonsense.

Peter Biddlecoombe's United Burger States of America - worst travel book I've ever come across.

The last two Harry Potter books - dire, dire stuff.

 

[bhaexpress]

Have you read them?

I read the first chapter and thought, what is this tripe ?

 

[Stumpy Tim]

I read the first chapter and thought, what is this tripe ?

You thought wrong

 

[bhaexpress]

Matter of opinion isn't it ?

 

[Cian]

Lord Of The Rings (all three of them), and the Hobbit. Drivel, drivel all the way through. (and yes, I read them)

 

[Gwylan]

Lord Of The Rings (all three of them), and the Hobbit. Drivel, drivel all the way through. (and yes, I read them)

I'm intrigued to know why you read a book, thought it was drivel and then went on to read the next two books in the series?

I started to read LOTR but thought it was utter cack and gave up after a couple of chapters.

In fact, I don't think that I've read truly terrible book because I always give up them up if they haven't gripped me within the opening two or three chapters, there are so many good books to read, why bother with the dross?

 

[surrey jim]

Number one on my all time shit list is Prey by Michael Crichton. Some of the writing was junior school level and I was genuinely relieved when it ended.

I liked that book

 

[Beeercan]

Every Single Harry Potter Book