Worst book you've read (or attempted to read)?

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skimom2

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So right about Forrest Gump! I had just seen the movie three days in a row (I was avoiding my business math class) and I wanted the book. I sat in my car and read the first page and promptly went back in the store and got my money back! Eric Roth was a genius.
Yep. Big Fish was much the same. Tim Burton is not one of my favorite directors, but the movie was much better than the book.
 

recitador

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Atlas Shrugged.

I finished it, sure, but JFC that was a slog.

That 200 page speech was almost enough to make me want to take a hammer to my head.

Repeatedly.

Until my brain was reduced to sludge with all of the consistency of lukewarm Jello.

200 page speech?? wtf. *permanently removes atlas shrugged from potential reading list*

Twilight

I had to give myself a Silkwood shower in an attempt to get the noxious stink off me. That woman is a hack and should be put in a small enclosed space far away from any type of writing device.

hey, now you're ready to take on that thinly disguised fan fiction loosely based on Twilight that is Fifty Shades of Grey. you might have to shower in bleach to remove that stink though. if you think Stephanie Meyer is a hack, wait'll you get a load of E.L. James.
 

Dana Jean

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Apr 11, 2006
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I love the story, but it got very hard to read. The horrors of the work camps and that ending! Parts of it did drive me crazy though
I'm going to read it again. I think I was just too immature to really appreciate the story. I accept my part of that. Steinbeck is an excellent writer, and the writing was fantastic. Not one complaint there at all. it was just the story.

But, in a way, the apathy I felt for these people was exactly what Steinbeck was writing about. What the Joad's faced on a daily basis. The lack of compassion and the prejudice and bigotry -- a loathing.

I am a better person now than when I first read it, so I think now I would feel different.

Someday, I will read it again.
 

GNTLGNT

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I'm going to read it again. I think I was just too immature to really appreciate the story. I accept my part of that. Steinbeck is an excellent writer, and the writing was fantastic. Not one complaint there at all. it was just the story.

But, in a way, the apathy I felt for these people was exactly what Steinbeck was writing about. What the Joad's faced on a daily basis. The lack of compassion and the prejudice and bigotry -- a loathing.

I am a better person now than when I first read it, so I think now I would feel different.

Someday, I will read it again.
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Dana Jean

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Wherever they’s a fight so hungry grapes can eat, I’ll be there.
Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a grape, I’ll be there.
If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way grapes yell when they’re mad an’ —
I’ll be in the way baby grapes laugh when they’re hungry an’ they know supper’s ready.
An’ when our grapes eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build — why, I’ll be there.
 

GNTLGNT

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Wherever they’s a fight so hungry grapes can eat, I’ll be there.
Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a grape, I’ll be there.
If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way grapes yell when they’re mad an’ —
I’ll be in the way baby grapes laugh when they’re hungry an’ they know supper’s ready.
An’ when our grapes eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build — why, I’ll be there.
:lol::clap:
 

doowopgirl

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I'm going to read it again. I think I was just too immature to really appreciate the story. I accept my part of that. Steinbeck is an excellent writer, and the writing was fantastic. Not one complaint there at all. it was just the story.

But, in a way, the apathy I felt for these people was exactly what Steinbeck was writing about. What the Joad's faced on a daily basis. The lack of compassion and the prejudice and bigotry -- a loathing.

I am a better person now than when I first read it, so I think now I would feel different.

Someday, I will read it again.
I also got similarities between the 'Oakies' then and immigrants today. At first you feel bad and want to help, then little by little resentment comes in. Some people want to work and some really don't. You get levels of corruption from employers. You get levels of government idiot schemes. A timeless classic.