Reddit Ask : What is the worst book you’ve ever read (and why?)

[theemii]

reddit user idontdigdinosaurs asked "What is the worst book you’ve ever read and why?" I picked some at random but if you wanna read the full thread you can click on the source.

- 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James
"Couldn't believe how poorly written this check-out aisle trash was. Just page after page of no substance and finding new ways to

Comments

[turtleisland]

Don't have one, because if I'm not enjoying a book, I just don't finish it.

[ginainabottle]

A lot of enjoyable books can take shitty turns. I've given the benefit of the doubt to a fair share of books and I was either pleasantly surprised or massively disappointed.

[bodyline]

same, i'm always baffled by people who have this incessant need to finish books or shows or whatever that they're not enjoying. like, we only have so many hours to live on this earth, why are you deliberately wasting them on something you don't like????????

[kansascshuffle]

Yeah, for me the worst books were all the ones I dropped before ever reaching like one third of them. They're usually simply boring af. Nothing outrageous, just unreadably boring.

Although, to be honest, I did hate-read like three books from a certain author that we made fun of with my BFF back in the day. But again, to me, they weren't the WORST books because they didn't bore me into dropping them. They did have horrible plot and in-your-face morals tho.

[ladychips]

oblig catcher in the rye comment

[frejasface]

*whispers* I like Catcher in the Rye

[rhapsodeeinblue]

Same ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[labovm]

same lol

[saintlys]

Always here for A Little Life slander

[kick_chop_slam]

mte.

I have spread my dislike (dare I say hatred?) of A Little Life everywhere like some kind of missionary.

[saintlys]

Same. Doing the lord's work if you ask me

[orange_jelly23]

it is absolutely ridiculous and the story is completely implausible. textbook torture porn!

[swimbee]

I usually don't finish books I don't like, but my least favorite book is one that I did finish, simply because it has what seems like a pretty big fanbase and I really tried to figure out why.

That cursed book is The Night Circus.

[insecuredesign]

Oop, I loved The Night Circus lol

[tsarinakate1]

Yessss. Its fine but i still dont get the hype

[yami_no_hoshi]

I love that book and I lent it to my cousin who has very similar taste and she absolutely hated it! Lol.

[la_petite_singe]

I totally get why A Little Life is so divisive, though I still think I'm on the love side. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I don't think it's objectively bad at all, but I struggled MIGHTILY with The Martian; just way too much science and not enough character development for me.

[tanglespiders]

It's not even good science! Dude gets the stoichiometry all wrong and he shits on disco. Two things I cannot countenance.

[dadeepish]

I read The Martian and Red Rising in the same week (likely, 2 days). The latter was so terrible that it changed my previously poor opinion on the former. Moral: Red Rising is a mind-expanding book.

[garamsythe]

I enjoyed the movie so much but the book was such a slog!