themaninblack Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Like the title says, whats the worst book of all time that you read? My vote goes to either Daughter of the Drow by Elaine Cunningham or Elfsong by Terry Brooks. This may change when I finally get around to reading Wizards First Rule like one of my friends keeps telling me I should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaerien Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Robert Newcomb's The Fifth Sorceress. Sara Douglass' Wayfarer Redemption was unreadable too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vintertroll Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 The first book in the Shannara-series by Terry Brooks. I couldn't read more than 200 pages before my eyes started burning. (Hm, I wonder how long it will be before someone mentions mr. Goodkind in this thread...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereward Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 The first thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingosatemybaby Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Time Trap (a Star Trek novel) by David Dvorkin. I remember literally throwing the book against the wall after about 70 pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maester Joergensen Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Game of thrones? just kidding;) I just make a joke because I have no idea. Perhaps "Taltos" by Anne Rice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galactus Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 My vote goes to either Daughter of the Drow by Elaine Cunningham or Elfsong by Terry Brooks. This may change when I finally get around to reading Wizards First Rule like one of my friends keeps telling me I should. Daughter of the Drow is pretty crappy and not at all good in any sense, but it's not actually *bad* as in, it at no point made me actually cry out in horror and despair for humanity. WFR does that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xray the Enforcer Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 I DEFY ALL YOU NAYSAYERS; WIZARDS FIRST RULE IS A TRIUMPH OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT. (Stone of Tears was a real crapfest, though. So I'll go with that one.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wolf Maid Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Pillars of Creation? or Faith of the Fallen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Will Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 I'm with you here. If you're going to hate on Goodkind, don't choose Wizard's First Rule. Wizard's First Rule was green meadow with bunnies and butterflies, it was a lucid and logical treatise on morality and ethics, it was a triumph of literary wonder, compared to what came after it. I would go with Faith of the Fallen as well, if he hadn't topped it when he wrote Naked Empire. That book is a detriment to mental health. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonehelm Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Pillars of Creation? or Faith of the Fallen? Now these were real crap-tastic books...but dont forget Chainfire and Phantom. I would also like to nominate The Redemption of Althalus, by David Eddings. I dont want to bad mouth Eddings too much, because I loved him as a young reader....but this book made me want to break his figers. He destroyed all my good feelings towards him as a writer with this one book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themaninblack Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 Now these were real crap-tastic books...but dont forget Chainfire and Phantom. I would also like to nominate The Redemption of Althalus, by David Eddings. I dont want to bad mouth Eddings too much, because I loved him as a young reader....but this book made me want to break his figers. He destroyed all my good feelings towards him as a writer with this one book. Really...why did you not like it? I am quite fond of Althalus. It's not the greatest book by him, that honor would have to go to Castle of Wizardry or Belgarath the Sorceror, but Althalus really wasn't that bad, The Dreamers book 1 was worse to me, I didn't make it through that one, which is saying something since I am a big Eddings fan. I'll not hate on Wizards any more, but I'm really iffy about reading it and anything else in the series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duchess of malfi Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Eragon barely edging out Goodkind's Pillars of Creation. Though if you include non-genre fiction, it would have to be James Joyce's Ulysses. Though to be honest, when I was a teenager (twenty years or so back) I read some really shitty Star Trek novels - thankfully I do not remember the titles or authors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niamh Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 The witches of Eastwick. Gah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isis Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Oh, I always thought that'd be a good read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crow's Eye Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 The Scarlet Letter. Absolutely hated reading it in high school, and unlike other classics I have revisisted in later years, I will never re-read it. And Faith of the Fallen. (wasn't that the book about carving the Statue?) It was so crap-tacular that it broke me free of Goodkind forever. I concede that later novels in that series may have been worse; I just wouldn't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rado907 Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 The Baldur's Gate novels. They are far worse than Goodkind. At the time of reading the, I was amazed there were publishing houses arrogant enough to publish these books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vhagar Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 The Scarlet Letter. Absolutely hated reading it in high school, and unlike other classics I have revisisted in later years, I will never re-read it. We had great fun with The Scarlet Letter....we read it after "The Pearl" (Which I nominate for worst book ever. Hated it!) and so mixed the two together and came up with great inside jokes. "Dillingsworth, throw Pearl into sea!" was one...ah yes. Took on a whole new life. If it hadn't been for that, I would have hated it beyond all measure. The only thing I really remember about that book was how she ornately embroidered the A...kind of a little Up Yours to all those people who made her wear it. Gulliver's Travels...that was a terrible read! I hated that, too. And anything by Nicholas Sparks. I attempted one and it nearly put me into a diabetic coma it was so sweet. I read 5 pages. **Goes to edit post in worst author to suggest Sparks** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormund Ukrainesbane Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 The Knight by Gene Wolfe, after 100 pages of the most incomprehensible writing I'd ever seen with characters who I couldn't even keep the names straight on, the book was permanently shelved. Runner up: Pillars of Creation. Not only crappy crappy writing, but completely unneccesary to the advancement of the story line also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crannogman Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 You are nominating a Gene Wolfe book as "worst ever"? Is this some kind of joke or do you really mean that? I mean... sure, you can think him overrated. Sure, you can dislike his work. Maybe you even think his work is tripe. But can you actually claim he's worse than Terry Goodkind or Robert Newcomb or the Eye of Argon? With a straight face? (oh, and the knight is one of his more accessible works too. I recommend not reading his others.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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