Nightmare Doom Posted September 12, 2006 What is one of the worst peace of shit that you read in your life? Persionally it has to be these two for starters http://fanfiction.ytmnd.com/ http://doom4fanfic.ytmnd.com/ 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted September 12, 2006 This Strange Tomorrow by Frank Belknap Long. So bad it was funny, so in a sense that made it not the worst fiction I've ever read, sort of. 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted September 12, 2006 Grazza said: So bad it was funny, so in a sense that made it not the worst fiction I've ever read, sort of. Sounds like some of those "joke wads". Personally, I don't really remember. Maybe some paperback novel I forgot about, maybe some junk in a fan site or a magazine of something, or perhaps the first DOOM novel. I usually just dump and forget what I'm not liking. But overall I think I've had more bad experiences (i.e., dropping out of dislike or tedium) with nonfiction than with fiction. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bucket Posted September 12, 2006 The Catcher In The Rye. I put it down after two chapters, and even that much was a chore. 0 Share this post Link to post
esselfortium Posted September 12, 2006 Bucket said:The Catcher In The Rye. I put it down after two chapters, and even that much was a chore. ..I don't love you anymore :'( 0 Share this post Link to post
Coopersville Posted September 12, 2006 The Client was abominable to me, granted I don't read a massive amount of fiction. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted September 12, 2006 There are all sorts of "classics" I tried reading but they were just tedious as Hell: Picture of Dorian Gray, Crime and Punishment, Bridge of the San Luis Rey (or something like that), several Shakespere plays. It's not that I dislike classic fiction (I like Steinbeck, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and even Chaucer) or stuff that's too 'heady' (Dune or Lolita), but those were very boring. I think the worst fiction in the most technical sense comes from our very own fanfics forum: http://www.doomworld.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37467 Goat said:lord of the flies Die. 0 Share this post Link to post
Kristian Ronge Posted September 12, 2006 Possibly "Alberte and Jakob" by Cora Sandel. Page after page of seemingly endless drivel. Supposedly has "deeper" meaning (Alberte feels cold all the time; maybe it's not because the weather is chilly but because she doesn't like her life? Took me a couple of sentences to figure it out, but it takes the author 300 pages to further elaborate on the subject). 0 Share this post Link to post
printz Posted September 12, 2006 Danarchy said:I think the worst fiction in the most technical sense comes from our very own fanfics forum: http://www.doomworld.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37467 And you haven't seen nothing yet heares tha complet storeybok: http://www.forumplanet.com/planetdoom/topic.asp?fid=7181&tid=1909454 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted September 12, 2006 You're all philistines, citing classics like that. For shame. As the only Engrish major here I'd like to suggest the entire doomworld forums are the worst fiction ever. Serious choice: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. Awful in almost every way. 0 Share this post Link to post
zark Posted September 12, 2006 pritch said:You're all philistines, citing classics like that. For shame. As the only Engrish major here I'd like to suggest the entire doomworld forums are the worst fiction ever. Serious choice: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. Awful in almost every way. Yes because being a classic automatically makes it good! 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted September 12, 2006 zarkyb said:Yes because being a classic automatically makes it good! Almost always, yes. Every great lady has her charm zark, you just have to know where to find it. See being an English major also means I can steal cheesey lines from Star Trek and make them worse. 0 Share this post Link to post
darknation Posted September 12, 2006 Shit fiction is ten a penny. It's more depressing for me when a good author fucks it up for some bizarre reason. Terry Prattchet in particular has a real, real bad habbit of chugging along nicely till he gets to the end and then totally screwing the pooch in the last 20 pages. So does Robert Rankin. If you enjoy watching trains in preperation for them becoming wrecks, I can heartily recommend Harris' latest piece of shit, Hannibal Lector: Behind the Mask. As one of the people who actually *liked* the Hannibal novel, I am awaiting the next installment in the series with something akin to dread. We are talking Hannibal Lector in a batman suit laying down the law on Nazi war criminals, having been taught by his sexy japanese aunt the way of the samurai. Also, any book that is being written at the same time as the film of the book is actually being filmed... I mean, jesus. Could Harris not wait a year before claiming his movie money? 0 Share this post Link to post
fodders Posted September 12, 2006 The worst thing I ever read was a bad translation of a French sex novel "fruggle me fruggle me she cridled! As the hot sponge ran down her thigs and uncles She was in exeter." 0 Share this post Link to post
deathz0r Posted September 12, 2006 Nightmare Doom said:http://fanfiction.ytmnd.com/You lack humour. Hyena wins. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted September 12, 2006 Most anything on fanfiction.net, especially for animes since those are usually beyond repair in the first place. 0 Share this post Link to post
Belial Posted September 12, 2006 Danarchy said:Crime and Punishment I'm not alone it seems. I just couldn't stand how the main character was a complete moron. Pretty much the same reason why I hated The Trial. 0 Share this post Link to post
DOOMENSTEIN Posted September 12, 2006 http://www.doomworld.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34403 0 Share this post Link to post
Goat Posted September 12, 2006 lord of the flies is fucking trash i swear to god 0 Share this post Link to post
EllipsusD Posted September 12, 2006 I had great expectations of the book with the same name. I was so disgusted by it that I set the damn thing on fire when I was camping. 0 Share this post Link to post
DOOMENSTEIN Posted September 12, 2006 EllipsusD said:I had great expectations of the book with the same name. I was so disgusted by it that I set the damn thing on fire when I was camping. I actually enjoyed that. Especially the part about Ms. Havisham's robotic monkeys. 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted September 12, 2006 What the fuck, with all the immense shit one can find in amateur or commercial fiction I'm surprised what some people are posting here. Maybe they read only canonic masterpieces, heh. Anyway, this thread reminds me I had reading Crime and Punishment in mind. 0 Share this post Link to post
david_a Posted September 12, 2006 What's with all the hate for Crime and Punishment? Raskolnikov ownz yuo! 0 Share this post Link to post
GGG Posted September 12, 2006 I tend to block bad reads out of my memory, so I don't remember mine. Probably something by Jane Austen. 0 Share this post Link to post
Zaldron Posted September 12, 2006 myk said:What the fuck, with all the immense shit one can find in amateur or commercial fiction I'm surprised what some people are posting here. Maybe they read only canonic masterpieces, heh. Anyway, this thread reminds me I had reading Crime and Punishment in mind. They're trying to look edgy and controversial. Quoting the odd fanfiction site here and there would be way too easy. That said, Charles Dickens is obnoxious. 0 Share this post Link to post