Least favorite book

[AnnaBananaBug]

Moby Dick

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I agree they did not talk like teenagers, but I still found myself enjoying the book. I hated the last book in the Cirque Du Freak series. It had built up to this big final battle, then halfway through the book the NARRORATOR dies! Then it gets all downhill from there with confusing time travel and a story that leaves lots of plot holes. Truly a horrible ending to a great book series.

I've found that the quickest way to ruin a series is to include time travel as a plot device. Sure, it can still be done well, but if done poorly, it can result in a confusing mess of plot holes.

Exactly, time travel is the quickest way to destroy a book's universe.
Because no matter what you do, it will cause some kind of paradox like it or not. If
someone can actually give me a good example of this not being the case, please let me
know, I'm curious on reading something that used time travel very well.

For an example, I will fully admit as a Potterhead that Rowlings shouldn't have put time travel
in the third book of Harry Potter. The entire concept was done very poorly, and in later books isn't
even addressed again. There's many ways The Prisoner of Azkaban could've been written without time travel
to fix the issue. That book still stands as my least favorite book of the series after the final book for that reason alone.

Even the Warriors series of all things
fell into the trap of using time travel...

[Klain]

Moby Dick

Oh man, I want to read it XD

[zoloft]

worst book i ever read was twilight . dont get me wrong, i love the series, especially the movies. but it's just poorly written! and there are so many plot holes! & the writing sounds like a teenager wrote it.. not intentionally. plus, lets be real, that story line... guy stalks girl, girl falls in love with him? stephenie meyer wyd..

edit: i remembered a worse one. i dont know the title, but we heard it was gonna be at book fair. it's literally a book about this app where people decide if the girl in a relationship is 'worthy' of the guy. thats literally... so stupid. first of all, if you didnt like someone youd say they werent worthy. but you disliking someone does not inherently mean that they are unworthy. furthermore, you could be into the guy and want em to break up! secondly, how you gonna let an app determine if you should be in a relationship.. like,, fr. if you love someone that should be all that matters, not if everyone thinks theyre 'worthy' idk that whole book is so flawed to me

[emiiwwy]

this book called three black swans.
i had to read it for my library's battle of the books program.
needless to say, i did not main it, as it was a terrible book, filled with useless plot twists that weren't even
G O O D.

[ede]

@brumous

plus, lets be real, that story line... guy stalks girl, girl falls in love with him?

yes this annoys me so much!! I just want to shout at the characters to have some common sense. And many young adult books seem to use this cliche ????

the immortal series by alyson someone... i can't remember right now c:
the vampire diaries

My problem with these books are that they are very shallow and focus very much on romance. One of the reasons I don't like them is the girl characters always need the male character which very cliche, which also seems to be the main plot of the books above. Books without love are fine too ya know! I also don't like how all the characters are gorgeous and beautiful. The writing isn't very good? I feel like they are just counting on the fact that its about romance to sell it.
Don't get me wrong, I've read some wonderfully written books about relationships but they were interesting and the characters had back bones. Just the ones above ... didn't.

the city of bones series (well the first three books)

I enjoyed the world building and the fantasy side but the relationship with Jace and Clary ruined it for me. It didn't feel necessary and just added drama.

Who knows though, I may give them another go.

[Kia_Bee]

The Island trilogy. I read them when i was in late childhood/early teens.

It's about six kid stereotypes; a rich boy, a sports girl, a trouble maker, two twins and a hacker, that are placed on a boat for the summer to "improve themselves" or something like that. They get lost in a storm and land on an island and have to survive. There's like pirates or something like that that are on the island trying to kill them. They eventually are found and live life happily.

Maybe because I wasn't in the age group it was targeted at, but I found it dull and think I fell asleep reading them which doesn't happen unless it's boring or I'm super tired.

[Nitro Indigo]

I agree they did not talk like teenagers, but I still found myself enjoying the book. I hated the last book in the Cirque Du Freak series. It had built up to this big final battle, then halfway through the book the NARRORATOR dies! Then it gets all downhill from there with confusing time travel and a story that leaves lots of plot holes. Truly a horrible ending to a great book series.

I've found that the quickest way to ruin a series is to include time travel as a plot device. Sure, it can still be done well, but if done poorly, it can result in a confusing mess of plot holes.

Exactly, time travel is the quickest way to destroy a book's universe.
Because no matter what you do, it will cause some kind of paradox like it or not. If
someone can actually give me a good example of this not being the case, please let me
know, I'm curious on reading something that used time travel very well.

For an example, I will fully admit as a Potterhead that Rowlings shouldn't have put time travel
in the third book of Harry Potter. The entire concept was done very poorly, and in later books isn't
even addressed again. There's many ways The Prisoner of Azkaban could've been written without time travel
to fix the issue. That book still stands as my least favorite book of the series after the final book for that reason alone.

Even the Warriors series of all things
fell into the trap of using time travel...

To be honest, I liked the time travel in Prisoner of Azkaban because it tied together the loose ends and make the story feel concise. Then again, I half-knew it in advance because I read about it on Wikipedia a long time ago.

PMD2, on the other hand... (warning: old video)

[DBD]

A hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy. I started slamming my face into the wall. It seemed to make time crawl even slower each word.

[WarriorRazorclaw]

The third Hunger Games book

The first one was amazing, the second one was good, but the third one bored me. I also had trouble figuring out what was going on, just so much happening all at once. I quit half way through. Also, yes, I know who dies in the end.