books you regret reading

[LucasDraleau]

The Invisible Man (The Racial One) - 500+ pages of complete torture and the writer writes it in such a dry, bitter tone.

[Mythological Omega]

Going through this thread made me incredibly sad. v_v
I retract my hatred for Of Mice and Men, but I honestly detested Wuthering Heights. It's probably just me, but that book made no goddamn sense.

[oathkeeperriku09]

The frist Chaper of Twilight

[Reflection]

hahahhah i don't think you intended that post to be as funny as it was

[landseasky5412]

Uglies and the rest of the books in the series

I couldn't even finish the first book. It was a complete waste of my time.

[SuperSailorEarth]

And now I hate the Eragon series, Inheritance ruined it. I hate the ending. CP needs to go learn to write a story, because he can not keep his own universe from contradicting itself.

[ZoroxX]

Twilight

Yeah that's about it

[Princess-Sammi]

I bravely soldiered through the first 3 Twilight books - what a waste of time.

[Pelafina]

lol okay so a girl's actual diary [ on the book Go Ask Alice] was too much of a predetermined plot for you lmao

So I actually don't care for this book either. It's factually very incorrect, so far as my understanding of the subject material is.

Also, this is from wikipedia and I find it brings up some interesting questions of authenticity.

Go Ask Alice was originally promoted as nonfiction and was published under the byline "Anonymous." However, not long after its publication, Beatrice Sparks, a psychologist and Mormon youth counselor, began making media appearances presenting herself as the book's editor.

Searches at the U.S. Copyright Office[1] show that Sparks is the sole copyright holder for Go Ask Alice. Furthermore, she is listed on the copyright record as the book's author — not as the editor, compiler, or executor, which would be more usual for someone publishing the diary of a deceased person. (According to the book itself, the sole copyright is owned by Prentice-Hall.)

In an October 1979 interview with Alleen Pace Nilsen for School Library Journal, Sparks claimed that Go Ask Alice had been based on the diary of one of her patients, but that she had added various fictional incidents based on her experiences working with other troubled teens. She said the real girl had not died of a drug overdose, but in a way that could have been either an accident or suicide. She also stated that she could not produce the original diary, because she had destroyed part of it after transcribing it and the rest was locked away in the publisher's vault.

Sparks' second "diary" project, Jay's Journal, gave rise to a controversy that cast further doubt on Go Ask Alice's veracity. Jay's Journal was allegedly the diary of a boy who committed suicide after becoming involved with the occult. Again, Sparks claimed to have based it on the diary a patient. However, the family of the boy in question, Alden Barrett, disowned the book. They claimed that Sparks had used only a handful of the actual diary entries, and had invented the great majority of the book, including the entire occult angle.[2] This led many to speculate that "Alice's" diary—if indeed it existed—had received similar treatment. No one claiming to have known the real "Alice" has ever come forward.

Sparks has gone on to produce many other alleged diaries dealing with various problems faced by teenagers. These include Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager, Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the Streets, Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, a Pregnant Teenager and It Happened to Nancy: By an Anonymous Teenager. Although billed as "real diaries," these do not appear to have been received by readers or reviewers as anything other than fiction.

There have recently been hints that at least one other author was involved in the creation of Go Ask Alice. In an essay called "Just Say Uh-Oh", published in the New York Times Book Review on November 5, 1998, Mark Oppenheimer identified Linda Glovach, an author of young-adult novels, as "one of the 'preparers'—let's call them forgers—of Go Ask Alice", although he did not give his source for this claim.[3] Amazon.com's listing for Glovach's novel Beauty Queen also states that Glovach is "a co-author" of Alice.

In an article on the Urban Legends Reference Pages (snopes.com), urban folklore expert Barbara Mikkelson points out that even before the revelations about Go Ask Alice's authorship, there was ample internal evidence that the book was not an actual diary. The lengthy, detailed passages about the harmful effects of illicit drugs and the relatively small amount of space dedicated to relationships and social gossip seem uncharacteristic of a teenaged girl’s diary

[luna008]

the awakening. it was a soap opera before tv was invinted....

[Solar]

ficciones

sorry borges but no

[MegaWallflower]

Dream Factory.

It wasn't really a bad book, I think...

But I couldn't get into it, and had trouble feeling how I'm pretty sure it was trying to make me feel... Especailly towards the first girlfriend, and sometimes towards the main character herself. I had to push through to finish, but it was really more of a personal dislike than a bad book, I think.

[DMrayZ]

Inheritance, But SuperSailorEarths comment now has me worried.

[ROXAS_32]

Twilight - No seriously it was terrible i still can believe i read that shit...