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Phil Kuhlman · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:42 am Post subject: Worst stories you've ever read.

Sometimes a story will just make us angry, or surprised that the writer got a chance to get the story published, or just make us sad that we wasted a few minutes of reading time on it. So what are the worst stories you've ever read?

The first one that springs to mind is the first story that ever just made me angry at the poor logic displayed by the characters and the way the writer wrote it as if it was a good thing what happened, and that would be "Cold Equations". I had to read it in sophomore English and got into an hour long argument about all the holes in logic in the story and the way it's presented like it was the only option to shoot a 60 pound girl into space instead of doing the same thing with the extra crap that would be onboard the ship. Hell, they could have blasted that much in food since it was a lot of food for a large community, and I think it'd be worth it to save a life to go without a couple meals over a couple weeks.

The second is Mr. Murder by Dean Koontz. The movie was still somehow worse, and it took a massive amount of effort to do that I'm sure.

The Eye of Argon also comes in, but I'm not sure if I should count it since it was more of an underground fanfiction thing that became the ultimate "how not to write a fantasy novel" novel. But you should read it anyway just to see how bad it is, it's like a bad movie that you just can't stop watching...like the new Herbie movie.

**shroud** · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject:

This is a tough one. While I won't say it was the worst I had read, Dan Brown's Deception Point was nearly unreadable-- a stark contrast to Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code. You can definitely see how he became more talented the more that he wrote.
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