Books you can't bloody stand...

Anything by a WAG or reality star. Makes me very sad that people actually buy these books and look up to them so much.

Walden.

Junior year of HS. American Studies.

Never. Again. 

I'm almost embarressed to say it but, White Teeth by Zadie Smith. I liked it for the first half but lord, it became endless! I really wanted to like it but it just didn't happen.

I know it's a bit late as the comment was posted a couple of years ago, but A Confederacy of Dunces rocked my world and is definately in my top ten.

I'm almost embarressed to say it but, White Teeth by Zadie Smith. I liked it for the first half but lord, it became endless! I really wanted to like it but it just didn't happen.

I know it's a bit late as the comment was posted a couple of years ago, but A Confederacy of Dunces rocked my world and is definately in my top ten.

So strange!!  I was just thinking about this!  Someone in that "would like to meet" kind of column in the London Paper mentioned someone they had discussed A Confederacy of Dunces with and would like to see them again.  I thought - whoa, I'd like to meet both of you!!

Peedal, I think that book is so under appreciated. I think it's especially sad considering he's dead, one small spark of genius is all we will ever have from him. :\\\'(

You can put me down as another person who couldn't stand "The Davinci Code".

I know this is like sacrilege for some, but I just can't stand The World According to Garp. 

I've never had such a visceral reaction to a book.  I was moved, and I was disgusted, and I cried.  I think it may very well be a brilliant novel...but I can't bloody stand it. 

You can put me down as another person who couldn't stand "The Davinci Code".

Agreed, it was so predictable. It was like a romance novel in it's predictability.

Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. I had to read it senior year of high school and I spent so much time kicking up a fuss about it that my tutor eventually dropped it. It was the most boring, screedy tome I have ever read and it's not like the level of language was all that challenging, it was just all around poorly written.

Of course, I don't buy into the whole Rand conception of exceptionalism through individualism, so that might be a big part of it.

And it was boring!

I hated Sebastian Faulks' 'Human Traces' but loved his book 'Birdsong'.

Anthem by Ayn Rand. Or as I like to call it, Objectivism for the Brain-Dead.

The weird thing is I liked both Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. I'm not an objectivist, but I enjoyed both books as works of literature. But if I'd have read Anthem before I read either of those, it would have been a long cold day in hell before I picked up anything else she'd written. I really thought it was offensively bad.

Absolutely hated Atonement.  I had it for years before the film, picked it up, started it and put it down countless times.  Finally the film release made me pick it up again.  I read the whole thing but it was painful.  I still have no clue what the ending was all about.  I hate books that leave you hanging!

Well, I've just read this long thread thinking I could make a list of books to avoid.  I should have realized people would all have different reactions!  Duh!

I'm another one who hated Da Vinci Code.  I read Atlas Shrugged but wasn't a big fan of that either.  I liked Tolstoy: War and Peace, Karenina.  I loved Confederacy of Dunces and I liked Garp too.

Like Genau, I rarely read books I can't stand because I manage to screen them out beforehand.

One that I can remember not liking was Peachtree Road by Anne Rivers Siddons.  I lived in Atlanta and love to read, so it was inevitable I would receive that book as a gift.  I had to make myself finish it.

Absolutely hated Atonement.  I had it for years before the film, picked it up, started it and put it down countless times.  Finally the film release made me pick it up again.  I read the whole thing but it was painful.  I still have no clue what the ending was all about.  I hate books that leave you hanging!

I'm so glad I'm not the only one   I hated the book and the movie.  Though, they did a really good job adapting it. (Crap as it was )

I'm so glad I'm not the only one   I hated the book and the movie.  Though, they did a really good job adapting it. (Crap as it was )

I'm tempted to watch the movie just to see how they adapted it, in my mind it would last 15 minutes at most and have no plot whatsoever.  The fact that I detest Keira Knightley but love James McAvoy is causing me problems!