Books You Don't Like.

Feed by M. T. Anderson is dreadful. The language made me want to stab myself.

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. Feminist propaganda disguised as the uplifting story of a woman rising above her circumstances, it was unrealistic both in its characterisation and its try-hard context, unemotive at times and ridiculously emotive at others (the main character quickly recovers from the death of her children but feels wistful and nostalgic over the smell of some rotten apples, never let the desensitisation you introduced earlier get in the way of a good descriptive paragraph or five) and generally inconsistent.

"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston. I didn't read the whole book, because the diologue pissed me off. "Ah" doesn't equal to "I". Floridians don't talk like that.

cardiotoxicity:

Lucky by Alice Sebold.

I think it's boring, which is quite a horrible thing to say considering this really happened to her. But I just felt that she was pushing her whole rape sob-story a bit far with The Lovely Bones and Lucky (The Lovely Bones which I read first), and I couldn't bring myself to even get halfway through Lucky.

I also tried reading The Almost Moon but gave up. Her writing is just so depressing.

THIS.

I really couldn't stand Lucky or The Almost Moon (although like you said, I feel terrible because the events in Lucky actually happened to her).

Come to think of it, I didn't like The Lovely Bones either.

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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

A lot of people liked it, but there was something about it that just didn't get me, it couldn't get me. I felt that until the book hit its peak in Part Three, it was just a very tedious read. I still wanted to know what was going to happen as the book slowly progressed, but I just didn't feel this book at all. To be completely honest, I enjoyed the movie a lot more than the book.

I liked the concept of the book, but it just dragged out and Kathy (I think that was her name) just seemed so emotionless. It was written like any other dramatic love story, except Kathy never seemed to like Tommy at all. I personally thought the film was even worse.

One book that I really didn't enjoy, and I feel as if I should've because it's considered to be a modern classic, was Lord of the Flies by William Golding. I think the idea was very interesting, but there was way too much description, in my opinion. It annoyed me so much, as it was like I wasn't expected to use my imagination.

'The Divine Wind' by Gary Disher. Probably the worst book I've ever read.

This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn by Aidan Chambers.

I absolutely adored Postcards From No Man's Land so I was really excited to read it, but it disappointed me. I mean, his use of language was magnificent as usual, but I just didn't like how he portrayed Cordelia. She was so unrealistic. I think this is because he was writing entirely from a female perspective and he's clearly male, so he was a bit off the mark. Well, for me anyway.

The scene where she and her best friend got naked in front of each other infuriated me. Why do all men think that that's something girls would do?

The Eternal ones by Kirsten Miller.
That book pissed me off so fucking much it made me want to punch babies.
And Animal Farm. Always hated that book.

Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult.
I predicted every single event in the book.

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.
I can't even finish it, I just hate it so much.

Also, any books by Gena Showalter.
Her work reads like a bad fanfic written by a horny pre-teen.

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Just... nothing actually seemed to happen in it... Then again I did stop reading after ten chapters or so

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - I was forced to read it in junior English in high school, and it was such a drag. It was so boring I couldn't stand to read it, so I didn't for the most part. I slept when we read it in class and got through the quizzes and test thanks to Spark Notes.

2. Bleachers by John Grisham - This one I read for senior English in high school. There was no Spark Notes information on this one, so I had to actually read it. I don't like football, and to read about people talking about football all the time was irriating.

3. I read the first 7 pages of the first Harry Potter book and never touched it again.

4. Evermore by Alyson Noel - *sigh* How do I even begin to explain how angry this book made me? It's just a horrible imitation of Twilight. The protaganist, Ever, is extremely whiny, repetitive and just flat-out stupid. Her boyfriend, Damen, is only present in about 12 of the book's 38 chapters, and in most of those chapters, Ever is rejecting him. Really romantic... The story is incredibly uneventful, and the amount of grammatical errors it contains is ungodly. I've read fan-fictions on this site that could mop the floor with this book, and based on how much I hate this piece of garbage, I will never go near the other 5 books in the Immortals series or anything else Alyson Noel has written. She makes Stephanie Meyer look like a golden goddess of literature. This book deserves to go down in flames, and I'm very tempted to put a lighter to my copy so one less person has to suffer.

1) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - I am not a Hawthorne fan in the slightest, and I absolutely hated this book. I was forced to read it my junior year of high school. I haven't touched it since.

2) The Road by Cormac McCarthy - once again, I was forced to read this as a junior. His lack of quotation marks angered me ><

3) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - I admittedly love the story, but I can't stand the way any of the Bronte sisters wrote

4) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - I read the first three or so pages and decided I never wanted to read anything in it again. I can't stand her writing style.

5) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - never again

As a note, the Twilight series is my nemesis.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - I hate that people compare the book to The Catcher In The Rye. I didn't see the resemblance myself. However, it's been a while since I read it, but as I was so irritated by it the first time round, I have no desire to re-read it.

Looking For Alaska by John Green - So overrated, generic and cliché, in my opinion. Which is sad, because his mode of narration is fine - but again, I'm too discouraged to read any more of his books.

Mrs Dalloway

I just really disliked how it was written.

When It Happens by Susane Colasanti.
My dislike for that book, and basically anything by her, is insurmountable. I can't stand her writing style, or her characters, or her plot. It's like she tries way too hard to be "hip." This book in particular is one that I really despised. Everything had already happened halfway through, and the second half was boring and pointless. I wish I hadn't wasted my time reading it.

Animal Farm
I was forced to read it early this year (yes I'm a freshman) and I can honestly say, I wanted to stab myself repeatedly in the face every time I lifted the book to read it. It's so boring and I hate it. I honestly hate it.
Fly - Q. Destiny
This book sucked so bad. There were so many grammatical errors and when I read it on my Nook, there were pages missing! But otherwise, it was a confusing storyline to follow and it was terrible.
Pretties and Uglies - Scott Westerfield.
I had to read Uglies for a book report in Seventh grade. It was good at first, I really like the action, but then it just got annoying to read. And Pretties, gosh, the characters are even more annoying than ever. I guess in a way, if I am remembering correctly, these books remind me of The Hunger Games (Which I deeply adore!). I don't know, there's just something about it that's off

Teenage Dirtbag.:

THIS.

I really couldn't stand Lucky or The Almost Moon (although like you said, I feel terrible because the events in Lucky actually happened to her).

Come to think of it, I didn't like The Lovely Bones either.

I couldn't get through Lucky either. It was incredibly dull - I admire her strength in writing such a personal biographical piece but the way it was written couldn't hold my attention for more than a page or two.
However, I really enjoyed The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon.

The Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Tool - I read this book last year thinking it would be funny and good. But it wasn't. The first few pages were okay, but then the rest of the book was down right boring. It dragged on and on, and I was happy to finish it. I don't think I'll ever read it again.

The Giver by Lois Lowry - I read this a few years ago and while everyone liked it, I was probably one of the only ones who disliked it. I didn't understand it very well, and the ending was confusing. I just overall didn't like it.

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - I really dislike his writing style for this book, which made me dread reading it. I thought it was boring and it couldn't end quick enough.