Worst book you've ever read?

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Perhaps, let's leave Twilight out of this

Rebel · Accepted Answer

EVIL

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
The Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley
I Write as I Please by Walter Duranty
The Turner Diaries by William L. Pierce, PhD
The Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung by Chairman Mao
Prescription Medicide: The Goodness of Planned Death by Jack Kevorkian
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by V.I. Lenin
My Rise and Fall by Benito Mussolini, Richard Lamb
Title 26, United States Tax Code
American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey by Stanford Shaw, PhD
Secrets Of A Christian Terrorist State-Armenia by Samuel Weems
The Unabomber Manifesto; Industrial Society and its Future
The Earth First! Reader: Ten Years of Radical Environmentalism by John Davis (editor)
International Jew by Henry Ford
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
A Torchlight for America by Louis Farrakhan
Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
Saddam Speaks on the Gulf Crisis by Saddam Hussein
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by Robert S. McNamara, Brian Vandemark
The Anarchist's Cookbook by William Powell
Kill Without Joy: The Complete How to Kill Book by John Minnery
White Power by George Lincoln Rockwell.
Karl Marx, Beacon for Our Times by Gus Hall

OBNOXIOUS

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
Lyndon by Merle Miller
Why Not the Best? by Jimmy Carter
Iron John by Robert Bly
I'm OK, You're OK by Thomas A. Harris
Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus by John Gray
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Charles Murray, Richard J. Hernstein
Growing up Brady by Barry Williams
The Rules: Time Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right by Ellen Fein, Sherrie Schneide
Out on a Limb by Shirley Maclaine
Doonesbury Dossier: The Reagan Years by G.B. Trudeau, Gloria Steinem
Iacocca: An Autobiography by Lee Iacocca, William Novak
Chariots of the Gods? by Erich Von Daniken
The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure by James Redfield, Carol Adrienne
The Acts of Jesus: The Search for the Authentic Deeds of Jesus by Robert Walter Funk (Editor), The Jesus Seminar
The Crash of '79 by Paul Erdman
The Private Diary of Lyle Menendez: In his own Words! 
Manson in his own Words by Charles Manson, Muel Emmons
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America, and how we can Take it Back by Jane Holtz Kay
The Gospel According to the Son by Norman Mailer
Before the Dawn: An Autobiography by Gerry Adams
An Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans, Prepared in the Prison Cell by Ian R.K. Paisley
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing your Inner Child by John Bradshaw
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: the Quantum Alternative to Growing Old by Deepak Chopra
My Lives by Roseanne, Roseanne Arnold
Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand by Nathaniel Branden
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
'Twixt Twelve and Twenty by Pat Boone

TRASH

Scoundrel Time by Lillian Hellman
Rage of Angels by Sidney Sheldon
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Suzanne
Nancy Reagan by Kitty Kelley
Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader
The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump
McCarthy by Roy Cohn
In the Eye of the Storm: A Memoir by Kurt Waldheim
The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson
Wired by Bob Woodward
You'll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again by Julia Phillips
American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense by Lawrence Schiller, James Willwerth
Betsy by Harold Robbins
The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon by Anthony Summers
Senator for Sale: An Unauthorized Biography of Senator Bob Dole by Stanley G. Hilton
The ***** by Jackie Collins
Activities of federal law enforcement agencies toward the Branch Davidians: joint hearings before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, and the Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session
Home Front by Patti Davis, Maureen Strange
Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind by Alexandra Ripley
Inside the Playboy Mansion by Gretchen Edgren, Hugh M. Hefner
Live from Golgotha/the Gospel According to Gore Vidal by Gore Vidal
On a Clear Day you can see General Motors by J. Patrick Wright, John Z. DeLorean
Escape to Hell and Other Stories by Muammar Qaddafi and Pierre Salinger
The Good, the Bad and the Very Ugly by Sondra Locke

Isabel · Answer

An older book Hank Searles, Overboard, about two people sailing the Pacific, going through life changes and suffering problems and difficulties in the relationship and they die in the end.  A friend gave me the book not so long ago to read and I kept hoping the story would get better but kept reading.  I can say without a doubt it was the most depressing damm book I ever read and when I finished it tore it up and threw it out - and I'd never even fold a page in a book I have so much respect for books, but that painful reading book didn't have a moment of redemption - geez I really hated it.

Erin · Answer

Other than twilight! Well no one can match that in worstness bu I'd say Abomination, Stone Cold and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas all I had to read at school at an excruciatingly slow place and all were complete rubbish with the most depressing ends in the world.

Von Skeet · Answer

Oh wow, I hated Book of the Law by Aleistar Crowey - I'm surprised someone else had it on their list.  Aside from the obvious Twilight, and House of Night I'm going to go out on a limb and say Boneshaker by Cherie Priest - what a snooze fest.  Also a ridiculous little book called Break by Hannah Moskeiwitz.  Self destructive kid breaks their own bones without hardly flinching?  I doubt it.

M B · Answer

The Heart of Darkness! Worst book ever! Had to read it for AP English and I will never open it again.

Anonymous · Answer

The entire House of Night series by PC Cast.

Geraldine · Answer

The Da Vinci Code....Angels and Demons...either of those!!

Bostonian In MO · Answer

Bible.  Total scam written by fundie zealots to control the masses through threats and intimidation.

Paul L · Answer

the great gatsby

Anonymous · Answer

Bible

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