Whats the worst you've ever read? Scifi/Fanstasy

[Andre]

These aren't the worst I've ever read, but they're pretty bad:

Anne McCaffrey's Freedom series. The first book was mediocre, the others terrible.

The entire Butlerian Jihad trilogy. Boring characters. Re-wrote much of the Dune history (not for the better). Books were so bloated, an editor could cut half the pages from each and still not get all the unnecessary stuff out.

Robert Asprin's Time Scout books.

 

[RangerWickett]

I've read a few romance novels with fantasy or sci-fi backdrops. These should not be in the sci-fi section of the book store.

Oh, and I didn't like Mists of Avalon. Not enough happened, plot-wise or character-wise, for it to be as long as it was. It wasn't terrible, but it was overlong, and there was too much scheming, and too little actual conflict. Also, it felt at times like the late Ms. Lackey wrote it just to say how much she disliked Christianity, because apparently the religion hates women.


One day, I decided I would pick a random book from the sci-fi section, and read it, just to see what a random novel is like. Y'know, something not D&D or Star Trek, which were what I was mostly reading at the time. So I end up reading 'StarDoc,' a novel about a doctor, obviously based on the author (author: C.J. Veihl, character: Cheri-Jo Grayveil), who goes to a remote planet/colony to do medicine for aliens. She falls in love with an alien, and some drama happens in the last few chapters.

I wasn't bad, but it didn't feel like a novel, because there wasn't an overriding conflict that stayed throughout the story. Oh, and it was 'part one of a trilogy.'

I swear, I will never write a trilogy.

 

[LostSoul]

I couldn't stand <i>The Catcher in the Rye</i>. Why do they teach this crap in school?

You didn't like that? I thought it was great, even if the protagonist was crazy.

I'd probably have to say some of those Dragonlance trilogy books. The first ones.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Oh, and I didn't like Mists of Avalon. Not enough happened, plot-wise or character-wise, for it to be as long as it was. It wasn't terrible, but it was overlong, and there was too much scheming, and too little actual conflict. Also, it felt at times like the late Ms. Lackey wrote it just to say how much she disliked Christianity, because apparently the religion hates women.

[coughMarionZimmerBradleycough]

-Hyp.

 

[Dakkareth]

I'm quite good at forgetting books/movies I find awful and blank out parts that bog down an otherwise good story. In fact I can't think of any name right now, though I know there have been some, and I'm not sure, whether this is a good thing or not. Of course it may just be, that it is a little late ...

Mmmhh, seems there's little point to this post.

 

[Taren Seeker]

Piers Anthony...pretty much all of it cept maybe the first one.

When I read them as an impressionable youth I didn't realize just how creepy they were, and not in a good way.

Edit: Gurgh, I have to add as proof: Bio of a Space Tyrant, where one of the biggest plot arcs of the series was whether or not he had sex with his sister...oh yeah then there was that one woman who liked being raped...yeah.

 

[swordsmasher]

I am really shocked no one has mentioned the two novels that were sequels to the movie Willow.

The movie was cool, but the sequels sucked.

I read the first book (I forget the names), and it was terrible from page 1 on. You can totally tell George Lucas basically signed the project over to Chris Claremont, who wrote the novels like they were comic books.

I had to force myself to finish it, just to see if it would get better (with many breaks to read a short Dragonlance story or two from the Second Generation, which is a good novel if you like DL and haven't read it yet), and it totally DOES NOT!!!

Any other opinions, and maybe someone could fill me in if the second book in the series was just as awful (If anyone read it, of course! )

 

[Fast Learner]

Don't be shocked, no one read them. Be shocked that you read them.

 

[RangerWickett]

[coughMarionZimmerBradleycough]

-Hyp.

Oops. Well, I got the first initial right.

 

[velm]

These aren't the worst I've ever read, but they're pretty bad:

Anne McCaffrey's Freedom series. The first book was mediocre, the others terrible.

The entire Butlerian Jihad trilogy. Boring characters. Re-wrote much of the Dune history (not for the better). Books were so bloated, an editor could cut half the pages from each and still not get all the unnecessary stuff out.

Robert Asprin's Time Scout books.

For something really funny, go to OLDMANMURRY.COM and read the review on a computer game based on the freedom series.