Tuesday 6 July 2010

Stupid books

I received a book today, Mary Rubio's Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings - a biography of the Anne of Green Gables author.

Unfortunately, I've already got it - somehow I managed to buy it from Amazons Canada and UK.

So: I offer it as a prize. In the comments, finish this sentence as wittily as possible:

The worst book I have ever read is…

Several authors I admire hugely died on this day: Thomas More, Guy de Maupassant, Kenneth Grahame and William Faulkner. Just before their summer holidays too.

7 comments:

jols said...

..Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings

The Plashing Vole said...

Very cruel and funny. I haven't read it yet, though the title doesn't inspire confidence!

Benjamin Judge said...

...sitting on the Vole's bookshelf.

The Plashing Vole said...

Ho ho ho. Which one?

Ewarwoowar said...

Oh, fuck you "Jols" I was going to do that joke.

Not sure really. I didn't like "On the Road" but not even I can claim it's the worst book ever (okay, I could if I was in a mischievous mood).

That then leaves me with "Confessions of an English opium-eater", but I only read about 2 pages of that shit, so I can't say I read it. Same applies to "Ivanhoe", which is unreadable.

Aha! Wait! I forgot "Wise Children", which was so unbelievably boring that at one point I had to sniff marker pens whilst reading it to make it seem more interesting.

Benjamin Judge said...

I was merely alluding to my dumping bad books on you. It is very possible I have saved you from the very worst. I once had a copy of a truly evil diet book called "The Gates of Heaven are Narrow" (wish I still had it, don't know what happened to it) Pedley once saw fit to buy me a Rush Limbaugh book which, like when a favourite cat brings you a half eaten yet still breathing frog, I had to discreetly dispose of while he wasn't looking. However, the worst book I have ever read was The Story of a Shipwreked Sailor by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I am grateful that while reading it no one said to me "would you like to read another page or would you prefer I pull out your finger nails with these rusty pliers?" as if they had I would be typing this comment with gammy stumps.

The Plashing Vole said...

You have given me a lot of very downbeat stuff, though I've just finished the Wodehouse compilation.

I've heard the Marquez is unreadable. That and the Rush Limbaugh might be a winner.