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My Nine Least Favourite Books (Of All Time)

Top Ten Tuesday is weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Of all the books that I have read, there have been some stinkers. Some pretty bad books. But I don't regret reading any of them. Even a bad book can still turn out to be valuable reading experience.  And if there's anything I can learn from reading a terrible piece of fiction is that sometimes a promising idea can be ruined by sloppy execution, and that most authors of bad books still have a passion for what they do. So to honour those overrated dookies and those unfortunate misfires, I'm listing nine of my least favourite books of all time.  1. Hurricane Moon by Alexis Glynn Latner Here, an interesting premise is ruined by stale writing, boring science and the most wooden, generic and uncharismatic characters that graced the pages of any book. You really shouldn't judge a book by its cover, especially if the cover is pretty. You can read my full...

Top Five Worst Books I've read in 2015 (So Far)

The year is not over yet, but I wanted to get the worst books out of the way before I get to the very best. Luckily, I haven't read enough bad books this year for a full Top Ten list. So here are five worst books I've read this year.   5. The Halloween Tree, by Ray Bradbury   It hurts me to put Bradbury in this list, but I have to be honest with myself and with you. It just wasn't good.     4. Who Goes There?, by John W. Campbell   John Carpenter's The Thing is one of my favourite movies, and I had high hopes for the book that it was based on. What a shame! The premise is fantastically interesting, but the writing is just bad. The book is dull and boring, and someone should have told Campbell that the story doesn't get better if you pump it with adjectives.     3. The old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway   This was the first book I read th...