Books that suck

The worst book that I've personally read was The Time Traveler's Wife. AWFUL, AWFUL, AWFUL. Seriously the writing was horrific. You could never tell whose POV you were reading from because the guy and his wife had the exact same voice, they were both pretentious as fuck, there were weird racist undertones, and they were constantly listing cool bands they liked to show you how cool and with it they were.

Edit: It was a real shame because the basic concept (time travel being a genetic, uncontrollable thing, and you mainly travel to significant events/places in your life) was a really neat sci-fi-ish concept that was completely butchered by an inept author. 

Hmm, in line of "Do for fantasy what Twilight did for vampires" I'd say Eragon from Christopher Paolini would be a very good contender.

I tried really hard to complete the book but it basically just was a reinterpretation of Lord of the Rings through the perspective of a child.

I read The Fifth Wave and I have to agree. Some of the plot just was too unrealistic for me. I was going to see the movie and find myself feeling the same about it, but I didn't get around to it. The Host also failed both in book and movie. 

Is that those "Fallen, Torment, Rapture, etc" ones? I had a friend who was really into them, lol.

Anything by Piers Anthony. That man is a pig. I started reading his Incarnations of Immortality series - bad enough that the female god incarnations had to service the male gods - I kid not, but there was a moment in the 2nd novel I think where a goddess comes upon a backward village/town and the villagers are about to stone a young woman to death. Her crime? She polluted their water source. How? She walked over it. Her vagina hovering 3 feet above the water polluted it. Now, the Goddess is thinking, "what a backward lot, I'll pretend to do a ritual to clean the water and thus save the girl's live." Except as she performed the ritual, she could feel the pollution leaving the water. Hence, the water was in fact polluted by the girl's hovering vagine. Closed the book and hated him since lol. I am not a violent person, but if I ever saw him on a Con or book signing, I'd be tempted to slap him.

The Lord of the Rings started the terrible trend of fantasy novels being completely over descriptive. Game of Thrones & Wheel of Time also suffer from this. They are way to denese, you need train by reading lots of books before them so you can slog through them.

The Da Vinci code was so terrible I couldn't finish it and I managed to read all of the Wheel of Time out of almost pure spite 

 

I've never had the pleasure of reading Twilight or 50 Shades, so I voted for 'other'

I sadly don't remember the actual title of the worst novel I ever read, but it was by Heinlein. I had read and loved Stranger in a Strange Land and The Cat Who Walked Through Walls, although I did have some issues with his portrayal of women in them. So I went on to read more of his works, and there was one that started with a female protagonist who was immortal, partly due to her genetics but also through some anti-aging space magic and while she's lived a full life as a mature adult woman, the men who administer her anti-aging thing keep her physically at 16 years old because they like her that way. And, these dudes are her father and son, both of whom have sex with her. And my head just kind of exploded and I backed away as quickly as I could, and never touched another Heinlein novel again.

Now I have to go bleach my brain again.

Fury by Elizabeth Miles.

It's about furies (nOT FURRIES), which go after teenagers instead of murderers and rapists like???????????? What is the point?? Teen angst??????????????