Hi readers, I've recently had the misfortune of reading one of the worst books I've ever opened. Bad books seems to be a theme this month, as 2 of my 3 textbooks I also find to be not super conducive to learning.
Anyway, my latest worst book is Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (sorry Sheyna). This is one of the books I'm to read for one of my book clubs. However, after struggling through the first 60 pages (which was more than enough), I decided to skip to the end and read the last 10 pages, just to see if something interesting happened. And it didn't. This book is about a man, a writer, who wanders around Paris always hungry, never with a permanent place to live, getting bedbugs and sleeping with any woman who walks by him...and then complaining about it all. Now while I'm a fan of complaining, it better be funny complaining. And this isn't. This is just dirty words and boringness.
Another bad book, at least to me, was Robinson Crusoe. Boring (and Pierce Brosnan looks ridiculous in that picture). After torturing myself reading the whole thing, I decided to try Hawthorne's House of Seven Gables. (This was a dark time in my life where I chose several bad/mediocre books, one after another.) That was a mistake, as the book was so wordy I'm not even sure I knew what Gable he was talking about!
So, readers, what are your worst books ever? You can leave comments and then we can discuss our best books ever, because I'm always looking for a new good book to read.
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5 comments:
i think they glued a rug to pierce brosnan's chest...hehehe
i don't know about worst book ever, but i really disliked steinbeck's "red pony" (sick horse who's torture is prolonged and exacerbated by home remedies)
really really liked isabel allende's "house of the spirits"
i'll also put in a vote for immensely disliking tropic of cancer!
I once thought that "As I Lay Dying" was the worst book ever written. When i read it in college, I liked it.
Profound, huh?
anything by Hawthorne is the worst
modern day Tom clancy has fallen in love with all the words he knows and wants to let us all see them, in all there many different combinations.
Fav all time COLD SASSY TREE
Worst = How to Be Good by Nick Hornby and also one of the ones that appeared during all the time travel hoopla a few years back. I think it was called Replay. Throw-it-across-the-room-when-you're-done AWFUL.
That Tom Clancy comment is hilarious.
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