Best and worst books you've read?

@movicont (495)
United States
September 14, 2008 1:58pm CST
What are the best and worst books that you've read? I have a hard time deciding on a book I enjoyed most--it might be somewhere between Nancy Kress's Beggars in Spain and Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. As for worst, the worst that I've managed to finish was probably Eragon. What about you?
5 responses
• Pakistan
15 Sep 08
I am not a very regular reader but the book that I enjoyed most is the Deathly Hallows and the worst book for me is Chronicles of Narnia : Voyages of the Dawn treader. It was so boring. But still I managed to make it to the end.
• India
12 Aug 11
I am a avid reader. But this question is so difficult. I have read so many good books that its difficult to finger point one. As for the bd books, I just stop reading them as I start feeling they are not good. In Classics I liked Wuthering Heights, Pride and prejudice
• United States
14 Sep 08
There are to many books that i enjoy to list a best but the worst book i read or at least one that i don't see what the big deal was about it Wuthering Heights. I kept hearing out that book was the greatest romance novel ever and when i read it i was so disappointed. I think Pride and Prejudice is so much better.
@smacksman (6053)
14 Sep 08
Worst that you have finished. That is the key phrase, I think, because there are many books that I have put down unfinished. The sad thing is that often they are books that have won the Booker Prize or some other accolade! Why am I not on the same 'mental bookshelf' as the critics?
@rup011 (725)
• Germany
14 Sep 08
I love reading books and I have been lucky enough that I never got a chance to read a bad book. Infact all the books I have read were amazing. But the best among them was 'Bhagvad Gita'. This book changed my life and I will be ever indebted to this book. Some other books while I liked are 'Many lives many masters' and Hardy boys and Enyd Blyton books. I used to read Enyd Blyton wehn I was a kid and used to simply love them. Hardy boys by franklin dixon were simply great. i would still love reading them.
@ladym33 (10979)
• United States
14 Sep 08
The Bridges of Madison county is a good book. I also really liked The Quickie from James Patterson. As for worse it is hard to say, since if I don't like a book I will usually just not finish it. Several years ago I read a book called Choke, by Chuck Paulonick (spelling?) The book was so weird, but for some reason I could not stop reading it. The lead character was gross, what he did was gross, but for some reason I actually read it to the end. So in a way it was the worst book I have ever read, but I can not say it was bad because it held my attention to the end.