Worst Book?

[kellycummings]

Harry Potter is a little bitch. Heh.


Dean Koontz has pennames? Enlighten me, please??? I'll be your best frieeeeeeeeend!!!!! lol


I started reading his books back when I was in sixth grade. I started with "Hideaway" and went to "Dragon Tear" and have been hooked on his writing since then.

I'm allowed to hate Harry Potter without even reading any of the books. I'm glad children find him appealing nad interesting. I'm a strong advocate of reading and if Harry Potter is what's making kids read these days, more power to him. I just refuse to pollute my mind with that drivel. Uggghhh! I will not ever read a Harry Potter book, see a Harry Potter story, or purchase a Harry Potter collectible. I just can't buy into the whole young wizard thing. In my eyes, Harry Potter sucks fat cock. lol I hate the smarmy little uppity bastard more than I hate any other literary character.

I admit that I'm ignorant to the poor little bastard, but I want to stay that way. I know that if I were to sit down and read one of the books I'd end up in a tower on some college campus with an assault rifle picking people off and yelling, "Death to Hodwart!!" or some equally ridiculous thing from having read such nonsense. Blah

You're basing your opinions on something that you totally ignorant of. How can you do that?
Without having read them you are in no position to say any of the things you just said. For all you know, none of that is true.
To base your opinion on something without any knowledge of it whatsoever is truly an ignorant thing to do. That is why there are racists and book burners and neo-nazis half of the worlds other troubles.
You cannot form an opinion of something that you know nothing about. Would you want something to base their opinion of you solely on your name and nothing else? Would you want an employer to decide whether or not to hire you based only on your looks and nothing else?
I am offended by what you said. Not because of Harry Potter, that is a matter of taste. I'm offended because you so readily put down something you are totally ignorant of. It is unfair to the author, the readers and yourself. IMO you should be ashamed of yourself for those comments.

 

[kellycummings]

or one of those metaphor thingies

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Metaphor my ass. It was meant that way but failed miserably.

 

[QuickDuck]

Pretty easy for me....anything written by Michael Savage.

I decided to sit down and read The Enemy Within but OMG, it was painful! It was like having any intelligence you think you have, smashed to pieces by small rodents with baseball bats.

All I can say is thank god i did not actually pay money for it.










oh and i nearly forgot.... anything that starts with "it was a dark and stormy night".

 

[Guest]

In hindsight, I'm not so sure ANY of her stuff was good.

I enjoyed her erotica (under her pen name) although only 3 chapters are worth tossing off to.

 

[Guest]

I'm not going to plough through this whole thread about bad books - so if this was already covered I appologise.

To my mind DANIELLE STEELE is THE worst writer to become a millionaress. Anyone who helped her should be ashamed.

 

[nike]

"Talisman" by Stephen King and Peter Straub. I've tried to read it 3 times and I have yet to force myself to make it more than 27 pages through. Peter Straub has to be one of the worst freaking writers and you can always tell what parts he wrote. I also tried to make it through "Black House" and couldnt.

 

[Calamity Jane]

I enjoyed her erotica (under her pen name) although only 3 chapters are worth tossing off to.

Which erotica under which pen name?

Belinda sucked - but I already said that. And the Beauty Series is so over the top, there's nothing erotic left.

 

[kellycummings]

"Talisman" by Stephen King and Peter Straub. I've tried to read it 3 times and I have yet to force myself to make it more than 27 pages through. Peter Straub has to be one of the worst freaking writers and you can always tell what parts he wrote. I also tried to make it through "Black House" and couldnt.

I agree. I think Straub is one of the most overrated writers ever. While King isn't exactly Steinbeck he is light years ahead of Straub and should have done it on his own.
That being said, I did like The Talisman and Black House but didn't like how he tied everything in with the Dark Tower series. Made me feel like I was reading a commercial.

 

[nike]

Which erotica under which pen name?

Anne Roquelaure

 

[markeymark]

Anne Roquelaure stuff I fould incredible.. I read the beauty books strait through very entertainging

books I hated

lord of the flies ( I hate this book )
any of the Mac bolan Novels these are absolutly dumb
any clive clussler books , repetive and boring.

I actualy enjoyed belinda it was interesting I thought I enjoyed it
I hated Voiln too that was a bad book too

 

[Marie901]

The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis (I think that's right...), but I couldn't even finish the book-it was vile.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Anne Roquelaure

I couldn't remember which name she used for which 'erotic' book.

She wrote Belinda as Anne Rampling. (Along with Exit to Eden, which I haven't bothered to read).

I still think the Beauty Series sucked. I actually liked the first book, but I've attempted to read the others, and have since attempted to read the first one again, and I can't even get past the first chapter. Every character is about as interesting as a receipt in the ashtray of my car.

 

[kellycummings]

I couldn't remember which name she used for which 'erotic' book.

She wrote Belinda as Anne Rampling. (Along with Exit to Eden, which I haven't bothered to read).

I still think the Beauty Series sucked. I actually liked the first book, but I've attempted to read the others, and have since attempted to read the first one again, and I can't even get past the first chapter. Every character is about as interesting as a receipt in the ashtray of my car.

Just read the Vampire novels, they are barely concealed erotica. First two were great, after that they are nothing but religion and sex.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Just read the Vampire novels, they are barely concealed erotica. First two were great, after that they are nothing but religion and sex.

None of her books are much more than Religion and Sex. Some of them manage to have interesting characters that are worth reading about though.

Belinda and The Beauty Series lack even that, imo.

 

[ubertroll]

Piers Anthony's "Bio of a Space Tyrant" quintogy.

I was introduced to Piers Anthony at age 12. By age 14, I had read more than thirty of his books. By this time, I'd gotten an inkling to the fact that he only really wrote one book. When I finally read the five books in the Bio of a Space Tyrant, it became clear that he was writing most of his books [insofar as they were different from one another] with one hand.

Honestly, one could make a better, more cohesive book by stringing together high-rated lit stories.

 

[kellycummings]

Piers Anthony's "Bio of a Space Tyrant" quintogy.

I was introduced to Piers Anthony at age 12. By age 14, I had read more than thirty of his books. By this time, I'd gotten an inkling to the fact that he only really wrote one book. When I finally read the five books in the Bio of a Space Tyrant, it became clear that he was writing most of his books [insofar as they were different from one another] with one hand.

Honestly, one could make a better, more cohesive book by stringing together high-rated lit stories.

The only Piers Anthony I ever read was "On A Pale Horse" and I loved it. No idea why I never read any others, just didn't. That one was really good though.

 

[ubertroll]

The only Piers Anthony I ever read was "On A Pale Horse" and I loved it. No idea why I never read any others, just didn't. That one was really good though.

He's probably the most sexist 'mainstream' writer out there. It's disgusting.

Oh, and, in all his books, but especially with the series starting with "On a Pale Horse" [the Incarnations of Immortality series], he brutally shoves Christian ideology on the reader.

 

[Oscuridad]

He's probably the most sexist 'mainstream' writer out there. It's disgusting.

Oh, and, in all his books, but especially with the series starting with "On a Pale Horse" [the Incarnations of Immortality series], he brutally shoves Christian ideology on the reader.

And all of his main characters in that series have "No truck with Satan". And that's verbatim.

Well, except Satan... No, maybe him too.

I should have stopped at On a Pale Horse.
Terry Pratchett is so much better.

 

[markeymark]

Piers Anthony's first couple Zanth novels the next bunch are horrible.. haven't bothered to read much of him since

I loved the death novels like On a pale horse and the others that go with it are amazing the ohter ones I like was the mode books Virtual mode and Fractal mode and Chaos mode. those were amazing too.. been looking for his books to be more like these for some time now..

 

[lovetoread]

Ok now, Peirs's Xanth series gets good from the 4th book on. I have read every one. The first ones were rough going, but he did write them like 20 years ago. His only other read worthy series is the Mode ones.

Skip the others, they aint worth opening up.

 

[Effigy]

Noone mentions Steinbecks the Grapes of Wrath?

Harry Potter is pretty bad, but its not memorably so.

 

[ozraven]

I bought an 'erotica anthology' about a year ago, and while looking for something to read last night, I picked it up and flipped through it.

It sucks. The stories are badly written, not very erotic at all, and almost all of them have endings that scream "I had no idea how to end this, so i'm just going to stop typing."

So not worth the money.

The Sex Chronicles By Zane

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What's the worst book you've read lately?

Not lately but on the same theme...........

"Best Lesbian Erotica 20/02" truly sucked............

I was left limp and akasha was as dry as a nun's nasty, and we are both pornhounds.....