I cannot STAND this book...
 

The only book I couldn't finish reading was The Hobbit. The language freaked me out.

Yes, I've read books that I've found to be rather awful. but I have rules about books - if I read it, I finish it. There's nothing more annoying to me than starting a book and not finishing it.

As for only reading one chapter and declaring the whole book horrible, I've never done that before. I don't think it's fair, really. Maybe you should have persevered a bit longer? Who knows, you may have liked it in the end. Would you mind sharing a quote from it to display the poor descriptive skills? What was it about?

Really, the Hobbit? ¦:^O I read that fairly recently, I loved it!

Now, this isn't due to bad writing or anything, but I tried reading Hexwood by Dianna Wynne Jones a few years back, and oh my god. :gonk: It was so confusing for me! I couldn't get into it at all, I could barely understand what was going on!
Maybe I'd have better luck now I'm older...

There have been a couple of books i just could not finish to save my life. Dragon Tears by Dean Koontz was one of them. Just a really crappy book using a whole laundry list of plot devices I've seen a thousand times in his work. I like Koontz, but he tends to use the same plot devices over an over.

Another one i could not read not so much because it was terrible but because it did not measure up to the series. I'm talking about Todd McCaffery's contribution to his mother's Dragonriders of Pern books. The style wasn't right, the names didn't fit, and it just did not do it for me, and I couldn't go past the first couple pages. I'm willing to admit Todd McCaffery may be a good writer, but he needs to not ride his mother's coattails and do his own thing.

My dad would read The Hobbit to me when i was little. I read LOTR in the 5th grade for the first time, and the writing in that is much more difficult to follow. The Hobbit was a fantastic book. I'd suggest giving it a go, if its not your thing its not your thing ^_^

I've had a few that I couldn't read at all.. there was Homecoming (forget the author) it was a school book assigned.. I literally had to get my mom to read it to me (this was back in grade 6) otherwise I wouldn't have been able to read it at all.

Also couldn't read Tom Sawyer or Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.. Also for school, but that one I just went online and found summaries for the chapters and such to be able to do the coursework needed.

The only one I'd come across that I had to buy for myself was actually Lord of the Rings.. I got halfway through the book actually.. but that's as far as I'd managed.. after it just gave me a headache to read.

There's such a thing as too much description when you have to state that the grass is green and the sky is blue to the shade of each patch..

There's other books, but I forget the titles.. before I buy a book I try to read a section to be sure I can get through it before putting out the money.

I hate Twilight. The writing is the worst thing ever. There is no grammar to be had in that book!

Some people say books are shitty because they don't have the intellectual capacity to understand it, which I think is unfair. I've read The Hobbit and I highly recommend it, but you must be patient with it, as with a lot of complex books with high merit.

You shouldn't really form such a harsh opinion based on second hand reading! :XD
I don't really get why people keep saying it's got a weird writing style, it seemed completely normal to me. :shock:

I think it's important to note that the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings were written in englad a rather long time ago, when more purple-y writing was the norm. Both of the books were written for Tolkein's children, so the Hobbit is a bit of an easier read than the Lord of the Rings, which was written when they were older.

But back to the overall theme of book hate: The Last of the Mohecans. Crap, crap, steaming utter horseshit. I can NOT even describe the utter FAIL of this book.

Never really judge on what another person says. Even If you have to have a dictionary sitting next you. I'm currently reading Hyperion by Dan Simmons. that is hard book, but it's Hugo award winner and provokes education, thus it's worth the read because my skill level will enhance because of it. If a book is found to be hard, keep a journal of it. What words you don't understand and what not. Show it to your English teacher, a good English teacher will sit down with you and teach you. Most English teachers if not all have read the Hobbit, so it would be no doubt that any teacher can help you with book.

All of you are telling the OP not to judge based on what other people are saying but I wasn't really under the impression that she was judging, it's just that someone here said that they found The Hobbit to be confusing and the OP thought it noteworthy to mention that some of her friends had the same opinion. :/
She didn't actually insult the book.

But anyways.. I totally agree that a difficult book isn't necessarily a bad book.
If a book is hard, save it for when you have more experience and read it then, or just keep trying, I'd say.
Asking your teacher is definitely a good idea though, or your librarian.

I have never really read a book that bothered me too much to continue...I am totally un-picky about books and movies, and really love -most- of them.

If I had to give a least favourite it would be more of a style of book. I'm sure people who like that style would find the books to be amazing... But authors like Alice Munroe and Margaret Lawrence don't really write in a way that appeals to me... Lives of Girls and Women and A Bird in the House were just....aghgahaghaghuhuhuhghg.... Un-enjoyable.. But I had to read them for school, ahah. I am not saying they are horrible or anything though, I'm sure tons of people like them.

It was the shitty remark that got to me a little. :XD You have to admit that's a bit harsh!

Jeez thanks for saving my ass. I was just about to say the same thing!
IM NOT JUDGING THE BOOK! A FRIEND OF MINE DID I'M JUST STATING THIERRRR OPINION. :-x :angry: AND wondering if others felt the same? Any who. MY OPINION ON THE HOBBIT, SINCE IT SEEMS TO BE SO DAMN IMPORTANT: I would LOVE to read it, complex books make me want to dig and figure them out. I enjoy books, I love reading. I don't like to give up on a book BEFORE I READ IT! How stupid is that? And what the heck do you guys take me as? Talking about brain capacity and dictionaries! AH I can't spell and I know that, but brain capacity? Really? Judging someone when you don't even know them? UHM that friend of mine who needs 'a bigger brain' has an average of 95% KKTHANX.
Clearly you have me all wrong. I just don't like ONE book. The rest that I have read are pretty good BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT I LIKE. (Other than eternal. ugh.) :illgetu:

OH AND what I posted about Eternal is MY opinion!
That's how I feel towards it and I'm NOT expecting feed back on that exact book really, I just wanted to hear other's opinion on other books!!! :illgetu:

Get facts straight before pointing fingers. :stare: :-x:

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I just quoted exactly what he said to me. :roll: :|

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&& I will because you're putting things positively!
And actually, JUST FOR this stupid thread, I actually bought the book!

IS EVERYONE HAPPY NOOOOW? :illgetu:

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never pointed any fingers.
calm down :/

I agree with Kollusim, I think you should calm down. I made a completely innocuous comment and you act like I've called you a raving madman! :lol:

Honestly, nobody's pointing fingers, nobody's judging you. I didn't mean any offense by any comment I made, and if my intention we unclear I am very sorry indeed. :) There are lots of books I don't like, too, we can't call like everything, can we now?

Back to the topic of the thread!
I really hated the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, and unfortunately I bought the whole "trilogy in five parts" in one book. My main problem with it was the random stupid unconnected stuff that happened ALL the time. It felt really disconnected and confusing. Also the one girl is made out to become a really important character, and she just disappears. like I can see what the author was maybe going for with some of the stuff, but it just turned out weird. The writing style fustrated me too, alot of the sentances were redundant, or could have been put in a simpler way (he used a lot of double negatives). I don't know why I read it all.
But that is just my opinion.
I'm sure there are people out there who just love these books, but I'm just not one of them.

Anything by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I had to read one of his books from literature class. I didn't like it at all. :sleep:

Exactly, Angel. Oh god, reading that book has been the longest moment in my life or at least it seemed like it. XD

YES! :( You make me remember another another book that wasn't to my taste...unsurprisingly it was one I was assigned to; these seem common among black lists! :XD I really didn't care for Treasure Island, although it's apparantly a classic. I found it boring, and the main character ticked me off quite majorly. :-x

I wonder about how the books we are told to read are the ones we dislike, do you suppose it's because they're forced on us and we're bitter towards them for it, or because we don't get to choose what we read it's the simple likelyhood that we'll end up with one we have no interest for? :lol: