magpie nic
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More books- What is the worst book you have read?For me it is A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. I had to keep reading coz if I have read more than 10 pages I cannot bear not to, but I hated this book!
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tui
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It's hard to remember the names of terrible books! I don't persist with books i don't like but they will often sit on my shelf for ages.
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seren82
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I hate chick lit type books - I've failed to complete quite a few of them... The worst children's book was "A gift from Winklesea". I remember thinking that that was really horrendously bad...
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trinity0097
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Lord of the Rings, never managed more than about a chapter of that, jyst can't get into it!
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cherryblossom
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coin locker babies by ryu murakami i stopped about half way through...it was just too grim... i found it hard to make the decision to stop reading it though.
i have read another of his called in the miso soup which i really enjoyed
so it maybe was just my frame of mind that it didnt suit at the time.
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Over40
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I'm with you Trinity, I've read 'The Hobbit' but cannot get get further than the first few chapters of 'The Lord of the Rings'. I even took it with me on a long journey !
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jog_on
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Bridget Jones' Diary!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is sooooo cr@p!
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smileylady
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Stig of the Dump/ Iron Man- more to do with the monotone teacher who read it to me I think! Haven't ever attempted them since.
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jog_on
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I love both of those books smileylady!
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smileylady
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Maybe it's time I faced my fears and re-read them. Honestly the teacher who read them to us was the worst, least enthusisatic teacher I can ever remember!
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wotsitagain
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I sympathise with the views about Lord of the Rings - can't read it, not seen the films although I did listen to it as a radio production some years ago. However, my worst book has to be something (can't remember the title) that was written by Ben Elton. I can't remember the subject either, but it has stayed with me for a long time as the worst book I have ever read for many years now.
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magpie nic
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I love Stig of the Dump and the Iron Man!
I don't like Ben Elton as an author either- is quite funny as a comedian though!
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posingpoodle
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It was y Jonathan Coe but I cant remember the name.....
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smallholder
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I've never been able to get into Lord of the Rings either!
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posingpoodle
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Lord of the rings is overrated. I have just finished Wetlands- very risque and made me feel a bit ill at times but very well written and funny.
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Venus
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Alchemist by Paolo Coelho.
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posingpoodle
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The Mator of Casterbridge-Thomas Hardy Absolutely awful.
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oatcake
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Moby Dick - had to read it at uni, but gave up after 4 chapters and had to skive off the tutorial!!!
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magpie nic
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Poodle, I read Wetlands as well- isn't it awful? Made me feel ill!!
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cofnchoc
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I can't remember titles of rubbishy reads. I don't do sci-fi. Never got into Lord of the Rings either.
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thehawk
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| magpie nic wrote: | I love Stig of the Dump and the Iron Man!
I don't like Ben Elton as an author either- is quite funny as a comedian though! |
Although his World War One novel was quite good.
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thehawk
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the poems of Alexander Pope - had to read it at university - so boring.
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wicked witch
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Some weird Dan Brown type mystery called the Group of Four (or something like that). It was dire!
Love LOTR, used to read it every year. Seen all the films and the stage show.
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magpie nic
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Dan Brown wrote 2 great books in Angels and Demons, and The Da Vinci code, but I did not enjoy his other ones at all.
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redredrobin
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Recently, confessions of a shopaholic. Realised I should never have read it because it as about the sort of person I can't stand.
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magpie nic
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I really enjoyed that RRR!!
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greyengine
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A few years ago I read The Shipping News which at the time was very popular - well-written book, but I just found it far too bleak and couldn't somehow get into it at all.
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magpie nic
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I have just finished an awful book- The Case of the Imaginary Detective by Karen Joy Fowler. Still wondering what the point of it was and whether I missed something very important so it would have made more sense. What a waste of reading time 
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sal 26
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Hi all!
I too have always loved Lord of the Rings and as a teenager enjoyed reading and re-reading it.
Loathe Eragon & Edge Chronicles!
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Sniggle
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I don't like sci-fi or fantasy.
Not keen on Nick Hornby but I seem to be in a minority there!
Couldn'y get on with The Time-Travellers Wife.
I've read loads of Patricia Cornwall but one her new ones (can't remember the title but it was really thin and had a blue and white cover) was pants!!
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