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Someone I know that is a huge fan of vamp stories said that Thirsty was horrible.

The Pearl by John Steinback would get me so bored after 2 pages that it took me 2 weeks to read the 90-page book. That's obscene, I know, but it was THAT boring. burning_eyes You see, I love dialogue, and there was minimal dialogue in the story.

Catcher in the Rye had no plot. stressed Seriously, Holden was just wandering around doing random acts. There was no clear goal trying to be reached, or problem that needed to be overcome.

Crispin by Avi won an award, and I have no idea why. The main character is illiterate, so the author writes in short, choppy sentences to get that across. (The first sentence is an atypical 25 words. You need to read the first four pages to really see the sentence structure.) It made me want to slam my head against the wall. gonk

House of Dark Delights has an amazing summary on the back cover. DO NOT BE FOOLED! exclaim The scenes are just so...tacky. Well, okay, the first scenario is hilarious, but the entire rest of the book is horrible.

I didn't like Brave New World by Huxley either. It was easy for me to read, but I wasn't interested while I was reading; it just didn't bore me to the brink of insanity like some other books. Being morally messed up, however, was intentional. The author believed that that's the way our society was heading and was trying to make a point. The promiscuous behaviour I understood, but I don't understnd where he got the idea that we would grow people instead of birth them.

I have a friend who mentioned one book. She said it had an okay plot but the ending was horrible. It was The Giver.

Agreed. There are 2 sequels of sorts but they takes place years later and the old main characters weren't that involved. If I pick up a book I don't like, I just stop reading and forget about. Nothing that memorable.

The first time I read The Giver, I hated it. I'm not sure if I even finished it. (But I was in 2nd grade at the time, so...) I tried it again a couple of years later, and was okay with it, but wouldn't reccomend it to anyone. I read it again last year and loved it- perhaps not for the story, but for the writing style. I think that's what gets people, because I haven't read much else with a style like that. It might be harder to read or something. My mom said it creeped her out, so that could be it. I have to read it again for English next year, and I wonder how that will turn out... It's not something I'd give to just anyone. I enjoy being creeped out. I'm apperently part of a small minority.

The Old Man and the Sea by: Ernest Hemingway... Worst book ever!! A 20 minute tale of a man catching in a fish spread over, over like 200 pages. Its like it tried to be moby d**k with a trout and failed... the old man feels bad that he kills the fish in the end and monologues for half a page about how great an adversay it was. It was fail...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by: JK Rowling... she didn't even give my two favorite characters a death scene and their son spent the epilogue making out on the Hogwarts train... >< I get really attached to characters.

The WORST CHAPTER I ever read... I liked the novel Hairstyles of the Damned by: Joe Meno. I hated the section where the main character makes friends with this druggie kid and does stupid stuff like breaking into cars and making out with this girl... unneeded I thought... it was a great book otherwise.