Books You Hated

I see topics on different forums asking people what books they love the most. I'm looking for people to tell me what books they absolutely hated, could not get through, got through and were pissed that they bothered... etc That kind of thing.

What books did you hate? Why? 

Well, there is a book that sticks out in my mind as one that I both loved and hated -- We Need to Talk About Kevin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Need_to_Talk_ About_Kevin

Original Post by seldonlives:

and imho vampires shouldn't sparkle in the effing sun. You're an unholy creature of the night, not a damn disco ball.

This is going on my profile....even though I read all the Twilight books and liked them.

This is just too great.

Original Post by vegetariangeek:

I didn't mind Grapes of Wrath. Not my favourite Steinbeck novel, but it wasn't that bad.

I've never met anyone who honestly enjoyed reading James Joyce - that might bug a lit professor!

I started reading Ulysses (sp?) my last year in high school, and well... I enjoyed reading a page at a time, but I kept having to go back to spark notes to see what they were referencing and remember where I was in the book and what was ACTUALLY going on.  I gave up about 50 pages in, I just didn't have the time to devote to decoding it.

I hated Twilight as well.  Didn't hate "Picture of Dorian Gray" but it showed me that every character in Wilde's work is "Sir Oscar Wilde" under a different name, and I hate that.  Ruined "The Importance of Being Earnest" for me too ...

Couldn't get into the Grapes of Wrath.  Waded through a bit of Crime and Punishment. 

There was something we had to read for AP English, about an ethnic man on trial for something in a small town with a lot of racism.   And the whole book was then a flashback.  Didn't read it, BS'ed the assignments.  It was so boring, and the author described everything in a pretentious manner.  "John's jaw was squared like the corner of the sidewalk where he hadn't been allowed to buy a paper from the boy whose jaw was round and pale in comparison.  His eyes gazed out over the courtroom with all the austerity of BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH."

My problem is that I don't remember the books I didn't like lol.

I love to read and I enjoy most of it.  If I don't.... well I probably don't finish it or even remember it.

The exception, however, would be the LOTR trilogy.  The Hobbit was okay,  not great, and when I've read the others, but they bore me to tears. 

I read them the first time at about eleven or twelve years old, and hated them. 

I got older (18-19) and thought I should give them another try -- maybe I had been to immature the first go-round.  Nope -- still hated them. 

I hate Catcher in the Rye, I had to read it in English class in High School.

There was another book called "The raging quiet" or something similar that I thought was ridiculous as well.  :P

As for why, they were both way to "touchy feely omg emotions" for me, which I find boring.  :|