Hey Pandas, Share A Pic Of A Book That You Absolutely Hate (Closed)

I tried so hard to read Catcher in the Rye but at around page 250 I just couldn't take that whiney, self entitled little prick any longer.

*NOTHING* ruins a book faster than being assigned to read it for an English class. In college, our professor decided he was going to do us a huge favor and assign a *Science Fiction* novel for us to read and write papers on. As a lifelong SF fan, I was excited. Turned out to be Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five', and a more self-indulgent piece of c**p I have never encountered. If I had thought of that one in time, I would have submitted it.

TWILIGHT! Oh my God! Too painful and annoying! I skipped parts to finish it faster. It's not worth Anne Rice's novels.

The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan. Written as if it were non-fiction, using real people, this was a perverted fan-fiction story depicting a twisted, pedo relationship between Edgar Degas and his dancer subjects in his painting, mainly that one ballet girl he did a statue of. Now, I don't know much about Degas. I do know the world of ballet was treated as risque entertainment for men, or that men were just drawn to it because young girls wore tutus showing their legs and bottoms. Much like the can can dancers. I don't know how true that is, because this book distorted facts from fiction in a way that I feel the research would be daunting.

Mine is That Was Then, This Is Now, by S. E. Hiton. I loved The Outsiders, and it's possibly my favorite book, but I feel like the sequel was even colder and sadder than the original. I might read it again in the future, but it hurt.

I've been a recreational reader for over 50 years, and in that time I've run across a few that made me wonder "What's the big deal?" "Dune" was one of them, but to be fair, it was probably 40 years ago, so some day I may give it another try. Another one is "The DaVinci Code." I thought it was just poorly written. I'm convinced that if it wasn't for the controversial subject matter that book would have died the slow lingering death it deserves.

A Streetcar Named Desire. It's insufferable people arguing for 10 acts.

I am probably the only one in the world who loathes The Lord of the Rings. I read a lot of different genres, mainly non-fiction but LOTR is just plain awful. It may be a best selling classic but I can't understand the devoted fan base. The trilogy is boring, boring, boring. The characters feel like naive and childish and that father Christmas' weird cousin Gandalf annoys me to moon and back.

Basically, almost every "great American novel" we were assigned in high school : The Scarlet Letter; The Crucible; The Great Gatsby; The Red Badge of Courage; Fahrenheit 451; Of Mice and Men; and the naturalist essays and beatnik "poetry" as well. (meanwhile, at home we were all reading Stephen King and Danielle Steele)