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Wuthering heights.... absolutely torturous.

Yes all those terrible misery lit books.

99.9% of chick lit (The first Bridget Jones doesn't count).


And whenever I see people reading "How to make your first million whilst having no talent or personality at all" I feel nothing short of despair.

i just finished the Almost Moon by Alice Sebold.


A crock.


I should have known. The lovely bones was only about 25% good. and this was raging drivel from start to finish.


but i have sort of a rule that once you've started.................you have to finish!

I read a Michael Chabon, courtesy of Asset at the Book Swap, and rather enjoyed it, does that make me a bad person?


Worst book I finished was something by Wilbur Smith - utterly shite.


Worst book I didn't finish was Ulysses by Joyce - utterly unreadable.

the abomination by someone abominable


I once received two copies of the lovely bones for christmas in the same year - I have read neither, nor will I. take your misery memoir and do something quite rude with it.


terrible books are one thing. people buying you terrible books because they're so "you" is something else entirely, and quite possibly merits the return of capital punishment

Good one Rosie,


Talking of books that people buy you because they are "Soooo you!:


How to Walk in High Heels, By Camilla Morton, - "the girly girl's guide to practically everything from what kind of shoes and stockings you should wear for various occasions"


WTF???


I do hope to read it one day to find out if it has any advice on how to drop friends who think that this kind of twaddle is yuor cup of tea.

London Orbital Iain Sinclair.

Pretentious twattery with a liberal smattering of namedropping buffoons I'd like to hit with his book.


Typical line "Oh freddled gruntbuggley, thy micturations are to me. As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. Ooh look there's Bill Drummon, walk with me, pleeeeease be my friend."

With you on the Hobbit Keef, though I find the LOTR a nice comfort read, mature children's reading that crosses over well to adulthood. Actually thinking about it the Hobbit was boring when I was a kid too.


And I found loads of the English classics really turgid, I know it's me rather than they being bad books, but I've given up on most of them in my time.


Dickens not included; boy knew how to write a good yarn.

Oh God yes...anything by JRR Tolkien. Complete airy fairy fecking tedious twaddle.


Oh and yes Jeffrey Archer should be shot for crimes againt literature amongst other things. Give me the gun. Any self-help books like You Can Heal Your Life by Louise L Hay. Utter utter bollocks.

I loved the Hobbit as a kid and the Lord of the Rings as a teenager. I have reread them as an adult (I use the term loosely) and found the Hobbit not as exciting and fanciful as I remembered and the Lord of the Rings terribly slow moving. Still liked them though.


Could never get into the Simarillion

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