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Originally Posted by covingtoncat73
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Another book I read in school I didn't like was Heart of Darkness. Unlike Tess, I didn't even finish that one and I was usually a pretty good student. I could not get into it or care about any character in it. It has been so long I can't really explain why. Maybe I should revisit it. After all, I liked Apocalypse Now. 
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By coincidence, I only just now mentioned in another thread enjoying
Heart of Darkness. But I also mention that I've heard it referred to as "the longest short story ever written", so I suspect you have many sympathisers.
I too enjoyed
Apocalypse Now, but I can see how your affection doesn't reconcile with the book. I'm not going to suggest you revisit it though - then you'll just blame me if you still don't like it.
I know it's a given for many, but Dan Brown's
The Da Vinci Code is the
best worst book I've ever read. For me, it was somewhat of a massive disaster, and yet I could not look away. But that's okay...an M&M McFlurry is a vile, dairy-like, calorific concoction of sickly sweetness barely passable as a foodstuff to any non-comatose tastebud...but sometimes, on rare occasions, by all the gods that didn't spawn such an unnatural, perverse creation, I'd sure as hell kill everyone in this room for one.
But the worst book I've read is
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch. Never have I had so little interest in the little lives and dramas of every, last, depthless, egotistical character in that book (one in particular), and it is without even any sufficiently compensatory tragedy to redeem it ("sufficiently" = killing-off the right people). I hated it, such that I've never had any remote desire to pick up anything, fiction or no, by Iris Murdoch ever again (though this is about desire, not commitment, and therefore always malleable to convincing argument
). I recognise this opinion of mine as being one not shared by many (better minds) who have read Murdoch's work. It is my own, and should be noted for that subjective worth.
Cheers,
Marc