'Just the pits' - The worst of Literature

A Listmania! list by "drambuster"
 
Pride and Prejudice (Wordsworth Classics)
1.  Pride and Prejudice (Wordsworth Classics) by Jane Austen
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  "Just not that great.  In fact it's twee, and hugely dull."
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The Unconsoled
2.  The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
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  "What on earth is this rubbish about?"
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Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
3.  Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
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  "More self centred, modernist, meaningless drivel."
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Translated Accounts
4.  Translated Accounts by James Kelman
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  "Pages and pages of complete and utter crap disguised as literature."
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First Among Equals
5.  First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer
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  "Absolutely anything by this so called 'writer' is always total garbage."
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Frankenstein (Wordsworth Classics): Or, the Modern Prometheus
6.  Frankenstein (Wordsworth Classics): Or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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  "A completely unbelievable, badly plotted moralistic rant.  Junk."
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The Blind Assassin
7.  The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
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  "This reader began to wish they were blind!"
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England England
8.  England England by Julian Barnes
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  "Childish, silly, pretend and poor.  Don't bother."
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The Nice And The Good (Vintage classics)
9.  The Nice And The Good (Vintage classics) by Iris Murdoch
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  "Not nice and certainly not good.  Just weird and rather stupid."
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Archangel
10.  Archangel by Robert Harris
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  "The most ridiculous ending to any novel, ever.  Stupid."
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