Mine was probably Back Home by Michelle Magorian, writer of Goodnight Mister Tom, after reading that I tried Back Home and it was really disappointing. There’s also Blood Meridian which I didn’t dislike but found it a bit incoherent with its writing. Still a good book though, I’ll try reading it again eventually.
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Icebreaker by Hannah Grace is the biggest waste of time. This is what made me detest BookTok
I’ve rarely read a book that I legitimately hate but here are some of my recent 1-star books:
* The Regulators by Richard Bachman
* Demon Seed by Dean Koontz
* Tower of Evil by James Kisner (I would actually give this book zeros stars; it was awful)
* Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
* Forest of the Damned by Lee Mountford
* The Talisman by Stephen King
Moby Dick (the chapter on “the whiteness of the whale”is what happens when people get paid by the word)
Catcher in the Rye (even when I read it in high school, I just couldn’t with Holden’s incessant complaining)
cant remember the title but it was like 100 horror stories something, only book I gave 2 stars
Already know I may get feed back for this, But the first three Harry Potter books. Ignoring the writers views. they just are not great books in my eyes
In the last year, my least favorite book was easily Fourth Wing. I found Violet to be the most insufferable main character in recent memory.
The Appeal by Janice Hallett – I was bored throughout the whole thing and then unsurprisingly the ending was underwhelming. I think it won awards as well, no idea how.
I don’t know if I’m gonna get a lot of backlash but ‘Twilight’ was definitely my least favorite book series ever. I mean, even though I was a teenager I was mature enough to understand not to romanticize unhealthy and toxic relationships.
The lovely bones. Hated it.
Currently finishing The Women, and it’s probably going to be my least favorite of the year unless there’s another great disappointment incoming. Too bad. I really thought I would at least somewhat enjoy it, given that the Vietnam War is easily my favorite era for historical fiction.
As much as I hate saying this, New Suns by Nisi Shawl (Ed.). The book cover is beautiful and the idea behind it very interesting. It is supposed to be an anthology of short stories written exclusively by PoC.
The problem is that almost all of the stories felt somewhat flat, almost as if they were written by amateurs. Like it is debatable if I liked 2 *maybe* 3 out of the 15. At first I thought that it was white defaultism from my part (question which I still keep in the back of my head), but then I checked the authors’ bio in the end of the book.
That’s where I found out that some of them haven’t written anything in fiction outside of the book’s short story. The worst part is that almost half of them have graduated from a program called “Clarion West” and *conveniently* the editor of the book is a board member. So it seems like the author selection process wasn’t transparent and objective, but it was a participation thorpy instead.
To clarify, I have nothing against the authors and I know being published is something to take pride in. I am just sceptical of every other step in the production and in the end of the day it feels as if I were scammed. I really do hope that I’m wrong.
Angela’s Ashes
the most depressing book I’ve ever read; not sure why I finished it 🙁
The Alchemist
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami.
Or Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami.
Or 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami.
His popularity and critical success utterly baffle me.
Probably an unusual pick, but Be faithful unto death by Zsigmond Móricz. It was required reading for school. Besides being painfully boring, the protagonist is insufferable and either cries, complains, or thinks to himself about complaining. The book is just an endless cycle of something bad happening to him and then him crying about it. The ending is also really unsatisfying.
I don’t know if it’s my least favorite book but I couldn’t finish Blood Meridian. I did get used to the writing style eventually, but I honestly found it really boring. I got about halfway through and realized I wasn’t even enjoying reading it, it was like a chore.
I really really hate Fahrenheit 451. No clue why people like it.
1Q84 is easily the worst book I have ever completely read. It was too long, boring, insultingly repetitive, and left me with impression that Murakami is a pedophile.