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I Want to Talk Books

What's the WORST book you've ever read?
My own nomination:
Who Moved My Cheese?

It is overpriced; so few pages (and in big print) and priced at $20.00. It was purchased by a lot of overpaid CEOs to get their employees to accept being "downsized" and replaced by outsourcing to countries with slave labor. Due to its high price and corporate support it made zillions of dollars. Corporate support put it on the N.Y. Times best seller list for many months. It's story was insulting, the theme being to live like timid mice in a maze, and scurry to make your living without questioning anything. It's the kind of book the boss would give to Dilbert.

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will999 · 70-79, M

Hi greenmountaingal. If I don't enjoy a book I usually can not be bothered finishing it, even if I 'should' read it because it is reputed to be 'excellent' literature. I recently picked up volume one of Victor Hugo's LES MISERABLES and found the character portrayal to be extremely detailed, even meticulous but somewhat obsessive and pointless. If I had the time to read an encyclopaedic description of the characters and their dress in this book I would put it to better use. His merely being aware of these things and simply being able to describe them with such finesse does not [i]in itself[/i] serve any greater purpose other than to merely reinforce his own dislikes or prejudice towards certain characters or people. I am currently reading and enjoying TOO SOON OLD, TOO LATE SMART, Thirty True Things You Need To Know Now, by Gordon Livingston, MD. It is both amusing and informative and I strongly suspect it is a pearl of great wisdom formed during nearly fifty years of attempting to guide those people who have asked for professional help in trying to change their lives. I am also particularly fond of THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS by John Bunyan, an amusing allegory of the spiritual journey of life. And believe it or not, I have also come to enjoy modern English translations of the most widely published book in all the world and in all of human history (according to the Guinness Book Of World Records), THE BIBLE.