A Bluestocking Knits

Booking Through Thursday‘s questions for today are about books we don’t like!

Here’s another set of questions from Nicki.

1. What’s the worst book you’ve ever read?  It’s actually rather difficult to think of one.  I used to slog through a book even if I wasn’t enjoying it, but these days time is too valuable to waste on junk.  I tend to forget about them except for a vague sense of disappoinment.
2. What’s the book you hated the most?  "Hate" is too strong a word.  "Disappointed," "disgusted," and "bored" are much more likely for me.  The last disappointing book that I actually finished was a Penelope Lively novel that I had to really work to get through — I’ve really enjoyed her earlier novels, so I kept hoping for a spark of inspiration, but it never came.  I didn’t make it through "Middlemarch," even though I had to write a paper on it.
3. Is the answer the same to both questions? If not, why not? I guess that the answers to the first question would be more related to the quality of the grammar, typesetting and printing, etc. and the answers to the second question would be more often about the content, the ideas presented and the way that the characters (if fiction) interest me.
4. Why was this book (or these books) so bad? Considering how many books I’ve read in my lifetime, the "bad" list is pretty short.  I think I’ve skewed the poll a little bit, though, in that I tend not to even bother with books I think I won’t like!