ITT: Shittiest book you read and why you feel that way...

ITT: Shittiest book you read and why you feel that way. Let's get some discussion going and elaborate on why some books are just dog-shit.

Andy Weir's The Martian.

The humour is what irritated me the most. It felt like it was aiming for a more young adult/teenager audience so a lot of the humour felt very immature to me. One of my friends defended it, saying that he didn't find it funny either but that it made sense as the protagonist is attempting to lighten the mood for himself, otherwise he would just be in a spiral of self-wallowing and he isn't that type of character. I sort of agreed but I don't think that excuses lazy attempts at humour (lazy attempts without any sense of irony). When the protagonist isn't in the chapter, the pace also drops to a stunting halt as various people at NASA with no characterisation spout paragraphs upon paragraphs of hand-holding exposition.

I only read the book because a friend gave me a copy and he wanted to know what I thought about it.

Anything by Mark Z Danielewski. That motherfucker relies too heavily on formatting and graphology gimmicks to pass off subpar mysteries as post-modernist experimental literature. You remove any sense of gimmickry from his writing and you're left with a pulpy book with some twists and turns. He's like Stephen King, he just likes to waste paper.

Bloodmeme by corncob tortillas yecarthy

It's all about spitting, killing injuns, eating tortillas and saying ye.

> literally hasn't read it

your favorite book

i know this is a lie to try and hurt my feelings because nobody who has read it could dare say don quixote was a shitty book with a straight face

Exactly how I feel reading House of Leaves at the moment. I was totally sucked in by the visual appeal but it's a mediocre mystery so far.

Bought a book once from the supermarket. Never again.

I actually liked it, but then again I read it when I was 16.