I'm surprised no one has mentioned The Book Thief. I personally really liked it, but I've noticed amongst my friends that it seems people either really love it or passionately hate it.
The only Jodi Pucoult I have ever read was My Sister's Keeper and that was because I bought it at a yard sale, and I thought it was okay. Please feel free to revoke my book snob status . And Joyce Carol Oates! I liked her in high school, but rerelease some of her work recently, and ugh!!! What was.i thinking? Self indulgent is the perfect word. I could not figure out what the reader was supposed to take from We Were the Mulvaneys.
Jodi Piccolt and Nicholas Sparks books make me want to stab my eyes out. I've read one of each. AWFUL AWFUL. I can't believe those assholes make money and sell books.
I can't believe nobody else hated 'The Sound and the Fury'. I still shudder when I think back to 11th grade english class.
While Twilight isn't a good book, New Moon was way worse. Yes, I've read them all but that allows me to definitively state that New Moon was horrible based on Bell's pathetic existence post-breakup. Or maybe you haters were referring to the series as a whole?
Jodi Piccolt and Nicholas Sparks books make me want to stab my eyes out. I've read one of each. AWFUL AWFUL. I can't believe those assholes make money and sell books.
Confession: I've read three Jodi Picoult books. All of them sucked. But here's the thing with them. They are very easy, quick reads that draw you in. I thought the first one I read (Plain Truth) was a good light read while I was at a vacation house. It sucked, but entertaining enough. Then my mom gave me Salem Falls right before I got on a cross country flight. It was quick and stupid enough that it made for great airplane reading. That worked out well, so I got Nineteen Minutes for my next cross country flight. And that one was just absolute crap and not even in an enjoyable kind of crap way.
Nineteen Minutes aside, I confess I might be willing to read another on a long flight when I had nothing to do.
Worst school book was Heart of Darkness. It was the only school book I never finished. It seemed like he went through a thesaurus, couldn't find the word he wanted, so threw 3 in series.
I am so glad to see someone else mention this nonsense. Also, The Sun Also Rises falls into the same category of "Got one chapter in and said "Fuck this shit" and didn't finish it."
There are books I hated when I read them in high school and college that I've gone back and re-read as an adult and liked or at least didn't mind it as much. Neither of these apply.
For modern books - anything by Dan Brown. Anything. It's all awful. Man couldn't write his way out of a shoebox.
I'm side-eyeing the person who said "To Kill a Mockingbird" though. I can see not liking it but...worst book ever?
People, you are all wrong. Anything by Nicholas Sparks is clearly the correct answer. Whiny, treacly, formulaic, and there are MILLIONS of them. He just keeps writing this crap! And they just keep making movies out of them!