Ranking it all from the least to the best and back again.
Asked about the worst book you ever read lately? Well I was. Seems odd. Does it matter any more that the best book I ever read. What is it that makes a book bad? Boring is a good place to start. I think some books just use a lot of bad words to get attention and that is a good tip off as to it qualifying for this list. I looked through list of summaries I had made on books that I had read and found some I will list below. I figure that the "worst" or the one that is worse than all the others is probably dependent on a lot of things that are variable. I would hope that thinks that really would make that top spot are things I would not have even read.
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I will list a few here
Anne Fadiman Ex Libris Confessions of a Common Reader ........Boring. Full of itself
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Jack Trout Big Brands Big Trouble.......................who cares
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David Sheilds Enough about you............He claims to be exploring the connection of Fiction and Non Fiction............didn't work for me.
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James Stephens Traditional Irish Fairy Tales .....................Probably would improve if I tried to reread it.
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Mark Kurlansky Salt........for all the hype it might as well been a chemistry book and fact is I didn't do well with Chemistry.
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The first time I read the Illiad I was so worn out and had a hard time following it that I might have said it was a bad book but then after a a few more attempts it might now make a list of the best
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The first few times I read Ulysses it was so so boring and difficult. On the other hand then it fell into place. A trip around the block. One Day. Very interesting.
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Lot's of things could make the list...............
ON THE OTHER HAND
Why not look over some reviews of good books.
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Yep, go to my two pages of reviews and look them over and vote yes a few times.
Or on the right side you can go down and.......... "click on all my Amazon reveiws".
Then again they are the books I liked. Not the ones I liked the most, but then that list changes often too. Wonder if books are like people. Wonder if they get better if you go back and read them again. Wonder if they get worse. Is the first impression like the first read.
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