The faceless others Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Literature is like any other art. There are masterpieces, and there are just plain fabrications, mediocre works, or just pieces of shit. Please give some of the worst novels you could suggest, in order to warn readers not to waste cash, time and effort. This is because by the gods there are a lot of 'em out there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papirolle Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Anything by Ed Greenwood. :stillsick: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alytha Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Before anyone else gets there:Anything by Robert Stanek and Terry Goodkind ;)Also Twelve by Jasper Kent. Twilight was marginally more entertaining.And The Windup Girl bored me to tears, although it won a Hugo or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEvilKing Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Blood of Elves by Sapowski (English translation, anyway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyanna Stark Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Goethe, because promoting young people to commit suicide makes me nerdrage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AverageGuy Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 The Fifth Sorceress by Robert Newcomb. Bad, bad book. Apparently he's still writing sequels, which for all I know are masterpieces, but the first book put me off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Literature is like any other art. There are masterpieces, and there are just plain fabrications, mediocre works, or just pieces of shit. Please give some of the worst novels you could suggest, in order to warn readers not to waste cash, time and effort. This is because by the gods there are a lot of 'em out there!For me personally they would have to be Henry Martyn by L. Neil Smith and Sword of Bedwyr by R. A. Salvatore, because they are the only novels I've tried to read in the past 20 years where I stopped in the middle and refused to finish them because I found them to be so poor in quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11th Heaven Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I read The Fire Eaters by David Almond when I was about 13 and remember thinking it was pretty awful, I can't recall why too well. I think the gist of my ire was that the book seemed to deal with the suspense of nuclear armageddon (set in the cold war), which then didn't happen, which I felt rendered the whole book pointless, and that the fire-eater in question didn't seem to have much relevance to the plot. Maybe I missed something, or I remember wrongly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxtile Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 What was the name of that book where the girl wants to be raped by dragons? Or was that just fanfic...Eye of Argorn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yagathai Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 The Gord the Rogue books by Gary Gygax. God bless that man for the many hours of entertainment he's given me, but come on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkynJay Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Freedom's Landing - Anne McCaffry(sp?)I enjoyed the Pern books in High school, then read this and wondered why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 i don't really see the appeal of jane austen or thomas hardy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renasko Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Blood of Elves by Sapowski (English translation, anyway).Agreed.Another: James Barclay. What a writer. :ack: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Nan Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 i don't really see the appeal of jane austen or thomas hardy.!!!Prose, comrade.I'd add Ulysses to this list. Except for Eye of Argon, nothing here is anywhere near to "most craptastic", but Ulysses probably has the multiplier of being both awful and overrated, which pushes it near the short list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolverine Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Dark Elf stuff by Salvatore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spastic Plastic Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Anything by John Ringo.You can add me to the "I hate Jane Austen" club. I was forced to sludge through her books in high school, and still suffer from PTSD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datepalm Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Runelords, by David Farland. Mediocrity in all aspects paired with stunning moral callousness produces something infinitely less than the sum of its parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanrn Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Yeah but the whole Rune system was cool, albeit somewhat evil super genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.H. Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 i don't really see the appeal of jane austen or thomas hardy.Not seeing the appeal of something doesn't make it crappy. It makes it not something you enjoy. I am not particularly enjoying Jane Austen's Sense & Sensability, but there is no way it is a bad book, she seems to be a perfectly competent writer and the book is more than readable, just not well suited for my taste. I had no expectation that i would love it when i started reading it, i didn't undertake it for pleasure, only for a challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spring Bass Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. It has all the elements: bulky exposition, thriller set-up, cliff-hanger chapters. But the execution is simply shit, and the book was horrible to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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