Books You Don't Like.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I honestly think it was the writing style.
The plot was interesting, but I just couldn't get past the writing style.

The Wave by Todd Strasser.
Had to read it for school and I couldn't stand it.

Bypass: The Story Of A Road by Michael McGirr.
We had to read it for year 11 lit. All I can really say is WHY!?
Even the teacher hated it...

youngbae.:

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I honestly think it was the writing style.
The plot was interesting, but I just couldn't get past the writing style.

I agree. I mean, I like the trilogy a whole fucking lot, and I adore the characters, but I don't think it was such an amazing book. I found the style... well, boring at places with all those endless explanations (even more so in The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet Nest).

Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult. It seems so much like Stephen King's The Green Mile.

Plus, it was very lecture-y in terms of religion and laws. But I guess that's just me.

Jacob Reckless:

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King. Normally I love his books but this was just page after page after page of descriptions about a girl who is lost in the woods. Interesting at first but then really, really dull.

This. I picked it up last year, expecting to love it (as I do with the majority of King's novels), and I was quite disappointed. I didn't read the entire thing - it didn't peak my interest enough, so halfway through I stopped reading.

I had to read The Odyssey in freshman year I hate it SO much. The only other books I could hate more are by Shakespeare.

I hate old books with old-timey language, I don't understand them at all.

Oh, and the Giver. -_- Mostly books we have to read for school.

I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore

Horrible. Just, horrible.

Worst prose I've seen in a long time.

I actually hated The Kite Runner. When everyone was obsessed with it a few years ago, I was still trying to get past the first chapter because it just bored me so much.

One of my friends says that she couldn't read Harry Potter for this reason, so for all I know, I may have really gotten into The Kite Runner if I could have stood the first chapter.

twilight. i liked it when i first read it, now if i even look at the book i want to pouke all over it haha

To Kill A Mockingbird.
*shrug*

Speak. Worst. Book. Ever.

Dirty Byrd:

Speak. Worst. Book. Ever.

Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

^ YES. I was glad that she died in the end.

Matched, by Allie Condle. I was extremely excited for the book, anticipating it to be similar to The Hunger Games, which is a favourite of mine. I read several amazing reviews for it, but I was extremely disappointed. It went ... nowhere. Nothing happened. The characters were flat, the writing was so-so and ... nothing happened.

The whole goddamn Evermore series by Alyson Noël. The characters were all annoying (even the villain introduced in the second book, but he was my favorite and I was looking forward to seeing him kill everyone, but this Mary-Sue author just couldn't have that, could she?) , the author used the phrase 'I press my lips together' entirely too much, and it was just godawful and predictable. It's interesting, don't get me wrong, but the writing style and lack of character depth was astounding and difficult to get through.

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.
I read it two years ago because I love the movie and because one of my friends is in love with it, but I just didn't like it. Maybe I just didn't pay attention in the end, but I was never sure if he died or was committed.

Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
It isn't that I don't like it because I had to read it for school and only five people out of the entire class read the book, making it a useless read, it was that Ishmael bored me to tears with his descriptions.

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
I picked it up because I was working in a library and thought, I've heard good things about this and it's a favorite of awesome-author John Green, what could be so wrong about it to get it banned? I didn't make it past the first chapter. I'm sure the plot is full of subtleties about humanity and society, but I wanted to strangle Holden right off the bat.

Sarahs Key.

Oh my, worst book I read. The story was horrible despite the descriptions being decent. The characters were also annoying.

ghosthorse:

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.
I read it two years ago because I love the movie and because one of my friend's is in love with it, but I just didn't like it. Maybe I just didn't pay attention in the end, but I was never sure if he died or was committed.

It's weird that you liked the movie but didn't like the book, usually it is the other way around :o Was the ending the only problem you had with it?