Everybody always asks what your favorite book is. I was curious as to what your least favorite book might be. I don't necessarily mean a book that's badly written, although it could be, but just one that you hate, for whatever reason.
Mine would be Gerald's Game, by Stephen King. If I could go back and unread that book, I would. I knew I hated it but I kept reading because I thought I would feel better if I found out how it ended. But I didn't. I never hated a book so much in all my life.
What's yours?
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You mention Steven King and I love some Steven King titles; others i can't finish - they are too boring. It is seldom that I will stop reading a book I started.
It's Charles Dickens that rubs me the wrong way. I like A Christmas Carol all right, but Great Expectations bored me to tears. All that melodrama. It was worse than a soap opera.
The book I really hated the first time I had to read it, but later came to love, was Wuthering Heights.
But I am a big Charles Dickens fan. I loved all his books. Stephen King I love some, like It, Salem Lot', The Stand and dislike Misery, The Dark Half.
Somebody should've shoved a plunger up Johnathan Swift's butt before he wrote the third section about the houynhnhms and yahoos. It was tolerable up until then.
Of Mice and Men is pretty depressing, but not so bad as Gulliver's Travels.
Not a fan of Hemingway or Dickens, either.