[Closed] Rubbish books.

Bible...! 😉

Marley & Me.... (yawn)

Goes to show about some reviews really, I thought Marley and Me had received some cracking reviews .. guess I'll be staying away from that now! although now I've discovered the joys of the local library I don't always feel obliged to read a rubbish book through to it's conclusion in the hope that it'll have some awesomely good and dramatic twist, this is rarely the case!!!!!!

I have also heard its very good (girlfriend cried nearly everytime she picked it up) but I reached halfway and couldn't pick it up again as I felt no desire to find out how it ends...

The Ghorgomast trilogy (sp???). I found it really difficult to finish and struggled to enjoy it.

Chocolate by Joanne Harris - dreadful, trully, utterly, dribblingly dreadful.
Perfume by Patrik Suskind - almost as bad as Chocolate.

The Da Vinci Code.. he cannot write. IMO it's only because the books about a contraversial issue that it got readers at all. Based on purely standard of writing, avoid.

How United are going to win the Champions League 2009 by Mr A Ferguson 😉

Hellraisers - Robert Sellars

How can you make a bad book out of the lives of Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Oli Reed? He does.

This book will save your life, AM Homes, awful LA drivel

Josie Dew cycle touring memoirs. Dull, dull, dull.

Joxster, if you mean Gormenghast, then I guess they're marmite books. One of my favourite reads! (Along with Perfume, also slated above.)

Millennium People by JG Ballard took some perseverance - I only stuck with it because it was on tape from the library and I needed something to get me through my commute. I've read loads of unmemorable books, but for some reason can't remember them...

A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian

utter, utter shite. Unfunny utter, utter shite at that too

High Fidelity, and pretty much anything else by Nick Hornby. Horrendous chick lit of the very worst order.

Seconded, anything at all by Dan Brown.

All his books are crap, really really really crap.

The Da Vinci Code is bab, absolute second rate pseudo-mystical bab.

Angels and Demons is even worse, and Digital Fortress is poo on a stick.

Why have I read them? I read A&D one desperately boring night at work, then read TDVC when it 'took the world by storm' just to see if it was as bad. It was.

I've read better cereal packets.

geetee1972 - Member
Chocolate by Joanne Harris - dreadful, trully, utterly, dribblingly dreadful.

Never read Chocolate, but Chocolat was excellent.

Would never read Dan Brown: too commonplace.

Carlos Castaneda is awful

Barack Obama biog is pretty heavy going.

Agree on Da vinci code etc,

I am currently trying to read a modern/classic each time I go on holiday and so far been mixed. Enjoyed Dorian Gray but The Catcher in the Rye was pretty dismal.

Keep on meaning to join the library rather than constantly browsing the bookshop.

Most stuff on prize lists. I read Tom Clancy's Red Rabbit and my God it was dull - almost nothing happened for 400 pages!

Absolutely loved "Perfume", fantastic book.
But hey ho...

No-one said everyone is the same and will enjoy the same books/bikes/holidays...etc,etc,

The Catcher in the Rye was pretty dismal.

You have a chance to retract that while there's time 😛

since they made it into a film I thought it might be quite good

The Time Traveller's Wife is odious. The Groomer more like. And the silly bugger never seems to remember to write down some lottery numbers...

Andy McNab & Chris Ryan's first Books were worth a read and after that, they lost the plot. Not read any since their 2nd offerings.

I'd argue with the earlier comment about the Bible (Old Testament) - it's a fascinating read.

Vive la difference and all that. Everyone is welcome to love any book they want to but it doesn't stop them being ultimately disregarded as unimportant.

The worst crime that Dan Brown was ever guilty of with The Da Vinci Code is plagiarism, as anyone who read Umberto Eco's intellectual tour de force 'Foucault Pendulum' will testify.

[i]since they made it into a film I thought it might be quite good [/i]

Oh dear.

Anything by Matthew Riley or Terry Pratchett.

Oh, and hats off to the fellah who mentioned Foucaults pendulum, an excellent book, definitely got to be the source for the Da vinci code.

finbar - Member

High Fidelity, and pretty much anything else by Nick Hornby. Horrendous chick lit of the very worst order.

Spot on!
I was quite offended by the one of the quotes saying that "High Fidelity was the insight into every guys mind" erm, no...

[i]I was quite offended by the one of the quotes saying that "High Fidelity was the insight into every guys mind" erm, no... [/i]

Surely you can only be offended by something that is directed at you in person.

Surely you can only be offended by something that is directed at you in person.

Are you saying that there is nothing out there that is not directed at you that doesn't offend you???

Sebastian Faulks - On Green Dolphin Street, zzzzz, Engleby was also pretty average, was expecting much more after 'The Girl at the Lion D'Or' which was awesome.

yet another recommendation to stay away from the Da Vinci code, what a pile of crap that was. I actually read it end to end because so many people said it was good I assumed I would catch up near the end. Nope, absolute pants. Badly written, stupid idea, rubbish.

I watched the film tonight. That was stupid too. And rubbish.

[i]And the silly bugger never seems to remember to write down some lottery numbers... [/i]

That's how they made their money in the Time travellers wife...

I also read The first Harry Potter book. Absolute dire trash. Glad it appealed to so many children but any adult reading those books should look in something called 'a library'. There are thousands of far better written books in there.

thought "perfume" was pretty good meself, Da Vici Code read it because the missus had read it and thought it was real(!) but easy enjoyable romp. Anything else if I think its rubbish I dont get beyond 20/30 pages. Why would you read a crap book when theres so many good'ns?

I borrowed a James Patterson "thriller" from a friend on holiday, as I'd read all my books. Read it on the plane in about 2 hours; utter, utter drivel. Written for people with reading ages of about 7. First book I've read that contained obviously paid for product placement too.

Never read a book with the author's name bigger than the title.

"Stranger in a strange land" by Heinlein. After a while of being interesting it starts to exhibit the somewhat rabid views of the author as opposed to the character.

"The name of the rose". Ye gods I was so [b]sick[/b] of the 'oh god we are not worthy' crap after 50 pages I just didn't want to even consider it any more.

Apart from that I'll read most stuff.

Digital Fortress is indeed pants

but you haven't read anything by Whitley Strieber yet... now that IS bad

Melmoth the Wanderer by Maturin is quite heavy going.

Life of Pi - Utter dross!

Fever Pitch was quite good even though I hate football (maybe it's a book about football for people that hate football). High Fidelity was OK but holiday reading.

Atlas Shrugged - Jesus wept.

I plough through spy and detective novels constantly. But OMG the frigging Bourne Supremacy etc books are awful. Terrible. The first one is just about OK so that you think hmm, I might as well keep going (they're only 2 quid in second hand shops) but the second one is just *abominable*.

There are a couple of good Tom Clancy ones (by the standards of airport novels) but most of them are too "he put down his CX5 that had been made by master craftsmen in the small Swiss town of Nutzsplatter, pausing only to admire its 5mm adjustable magnitude, which a professional with training in the Lumumba camps between 1976 and 1978 could consider to be..." shite. Yes, we get that you've done the research but it's still crap.

Can't believe no-one here has mentioned Paulo Coelho! A gf got me that once...think it was then when I realised it was all over...

Anything by Dan Brown seconded, thirded whatever. It was Angels and Demons I think and it was awful but once I started I couldn't stop. I didn't want to carry it around on my holiday and couldn't bring myself to burn it so I wrote on the inside cover "this book is ***** and will steal 2 hrs of your life, I warn you not to read any further" and left it on a train.

Life of Pi is a marmite book. I loved it.

I can't believe bruk has said Catcher in the Rye, that makes me sad 🙁

I thought that the bible was a good read. I reckon everyone should read it.

The Lord Of The Rings. Tom Bombadill can **** off.

le rouge et le noir...

After 500 pages of the bloque wondering weather or not it would be aceptable to kiss the girl I just gave up... I obviously got a very bad mark at the essay on this book.

Plus terry goodwin first volume of the sword of truth... Not a bad book, but long, long, very long.

I borrowed "Devil Bones" by Kathy Reichs from someone at work to help stave off boredom on the train home.

I don't remember ever trying to read a more badly written 'book' - it contains chapter endings like "I had no idea that my day's end we'd score two more ID's, close a cold-case, and come face-to-face with yet another perplexing religion".

Leaving aside the laughable characterization - you can almost hear the author pitching it to a film-maker / book editor at the publisher: "She's a troubled maveric forensic anthropologist, recovering alcoholic etc etc", it takes DB's modus operani of explaining absolutely everything to the reader to extremes - utter, utter drivel written in an insultingly patronising fashion - there's more literary technique in my daughter's nighttime stories FFS...

I made the mistake of buying a Kathy Reichs book on holiday once. It was truly awful.

I loved the Life of Pi and was indifferent to The Da Vinci Code - very ordinary.

I have trouble with Christopher Priest. The stories some to be really well conceived, but written dreadfully.

Paul Auster
Dan Brown
Quentin Jardine

The Great Gatsby = Most overrated book of all time
Crying of Lot 49 = Close runner up