what book you most regret having read? must have finished the fucker to qualify.

[Bukfan]

Same here. Who wants to finish a shitty book? Now, a thread about unfinished shitty books would be a different matter. :hmh:

 

[Skygazer]

Probably the worst book I've finished and regretted reading was Jean Cocteau: Les Enfant Terribles, starts out weird, becomes grim and weird, mostly the everyone in it dies (thankfully there aren't too many characters) and the worst part is, you don't really care, I kept thinking it started out bad, so it has to have a better outcome, but nope. Thankfully it's a short book and nice sketches throughout the book though by the author.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Hmmm, I think I have a copy of that somewhere around here. Sounds as if I should put it on my "to be read" list and then never get around to it, like so many other books...

 

[Ponder]

Kosinski.

 

[d gray]

Now, a thread about unfinished shitty books would be a different matter. :hmh:

how about "threads i most regret having read"...:?:

 

[Bukfan]

Great idea! I think we would have to limit the thread to, say, "10 threads i most regret having read", otherwise we´ll never finish the thread. :p

 

[5:28am]

I don't see Any reason, why a sane or semi-sane person should read through a book they hate (unless it's their job to do so).

I've finished books because they were historically significant. Marx's Capital is one of those...

Some of it was witty, esp. the part where he describes a young woman dying of exhaustion "without having finished her work, much to the astonishment of her employer."

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Kosinski.

You know, I've read several (The Painted Bird, Steps, Being There) that are great. Some others were horrible.

 

[skiroomalum]

Painted Bird was possibly partially ghostwritten by one of Kosinski's "students". Controversial authorship issue with that one.