What is

[james_davis_nicoll]

The best book you hate?

Comments

[yhlee]

Does it have to be sf/f?

Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Multiple English majors explained to me that it was a wonderful novel, and that may be so, but I feel like the time I spent reading the damn thing could have better been spent burning as many copies as I could find.

I'm trying to think of an sf/f novel I hate as much, but my unreasoning hatred of Tess fails to be outdone.

[kate_nepveu]

Hee! I became known principally for how much I hated _Tess_ (and Tess) in a summer program I did. When I complained about how all the characters were AWFUL, the lead teacher looked surprised and said she'd been focusing so much on the beauty of the landscapes that she hadn't been thinking much about that. I didn't see how she could avoid it.

I read very few books that I hate, fortunately, so I'm definitely going with _Tess_.

[james_davis_nicoll]

I just wanted Tess to knife wossface during the carriage ride at the beginning and Angel (was that his name?) to be painfully torn to pieces by his own hypocrisy.

[yhlee]

We share brainz. :-]

[kate_nepveu]

It's not too much to ask, surely.

[mishalak]

I think I saw part of a PBS production of that... I hated it as much as or more than Downton Abbey if I remember rightly.

[zeborah]

If we include the classics, Wuthering Heights OMG.

[yhlee]

I failed to get past p. 5 something like two or three times because I loathed the people, and gave up. My dad bought it for me "because girls like this sort of thing," having somehow forgotten that I inherited his taste in classics (Treasure Island, Les Misérables).