What are the best, worst, longest and last books you've read?

Best- 1984 sticks in my mind by George Orwell
Worst- A tie between that Spot book I had to read a million tomes, and the Bible.
Longest- Bible probably. Certainly felt like the longest
Last- Join me by Danny Wallace

Best: Cien años de Soledad "A hundred years of solitude"(Grabriel García Marquez)
Worst: (none)
Longest: Fundamental Algorithms (vols I, II and III) (Donald E. Knuth)
Last: Paula (Isabel Allende)

Difficult to say

Best maybe 'Bury my heart at Wounded Knee

Worst' Far from the Madding crowd ' , or anything else by Thomas hardy or the Russian classics.

Longest ---Anything by Chekov or Dostyesky or Thomas Hardy or see above. Maybe they just seem the longest

Last were---The Malpas Legacy and David Niven Autobiography " The Moon is a Balloon" again

I generally don't continue to read books that I don't take an interest in, but I had to read Metamorphosis and The Scarlet Letter, and I absolutely could not stand either of them. Interesting themes, symbols, and plot. Poorly executed.

The Old Man And The Sea. That book shouldn't even exist. Its just about an old man, in the middle of the ocean, fishing like he's been fishing for the past 40 years, he goes out, every single day, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again and he still doesn't catch a fish. He dreams about Africa, then he dies at the end. The whole book is about him going out one day and fishing, catching a big ass tuna and only going back with its head. The book is even more boring than reading my answer to this question! The best part of the book is the last word on the last page! I had to read it last year in English class, it wasn't fun!!

A Passage to India, in high school. I was reading a review which said that it was written just before the author died, and that he was intending to completely rewrite it, as he was unhappy with it. I thought: if the author didn't like it, why do I have to read it. I don't like it either. LOL

Best Fiction: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Best Non-fiction: John Adams by David McCulloch

Longest: RN, Memoir by Richard Nixon

tied with The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzenitzen

Worst: The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessons by Mikhail Gorbachev

It's a toss up between Like a Rolling Stone by Greil Marcus, The Unvanquished by William Faulkner and The Catcher in the Rye.

Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code.

I forced my way through "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce. That hurt...a lot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man

It wasn't by choice. It was an assigned book in my English class in high school.

Growing up in Southern California during the 1970s-1980s to agnostic immigrant parents gave me ZERO connection to someone coming of age as a family-centric strict Catholic in early-20th-century Ireland.

Another book that deeply frustrated me (because it had such potential) was Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix. Not only was it *way* too long, but Rowling squandered the intriguing plot lines that could have been spun about Valdemort's influence (or suspected influence) on various characters.

The Scarlet Letter. I just couldn't get into it.

Like Redundant, if I don't like the book, I don't usually get far. However, there was one particularly horrible book I was forced to read all the way through (for my English class).
Perhaps I just don't have an appreciation for classic literature, or perhaps it's the fact that I was grossed out by two cousins being in love, but I'm going to have to say "Wuthering Heights."
I honestly didn't think I would ever finish it. It wasn't the vocabulary they used, or that the story was hard to follow, I just didn't think it was a very good story.

If the book doesn't hold my interest past the first chapter then I don't continue on... so I can say that I have never read a really bad book

The best: too many to mention but I like SF and currently David Weber is my favourite author, also Anne MacCaffrey and David and Leigh Eddings and Issac Asimov.
The worst: anything written by Charles Dickens, I find the whole thing way too wordy for my tastes, a close second would be Thomas Hardy.
The longest: probably Lord of the Rings and I am sad to say it is in the top ten of worst books because it can get a littel bit tedious at times...
The last book: just finished In Fury Born by David Weber and am currently reading The Younger Gods by David & Leigh Eddings.

Best: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Worst: Jordan's "novel" (To be fair I only read three pages, but I'm pretty sure the whole thing was just as bad) Longest: Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy, Last: The Golden Bough- James Frazer

Best: Harry Potter series, She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Worst: None, as of yet
Last: Velocity by Dean Koontz

I read so much that I do lose track quite often.
Best-although I've read so many excellent ones, I will always say the Bible
Worst-the one title that sticks in my mind is Animal Farm
Longest-Either the Bible, or if it counts, the dictionary. I haven't read either all the way through, though. The longest book I have read through would probably be by either L.E. Modesitt, Jr. or by Laurell K. Hamilton. They have both written 600 or 700 pg+ books. (A nice length.)
The last book I read through was The Pinhoe Egg by Diana Wynne Jones.

best: I have to say its debatable beetween a dogs life by ann m martin and mrs fisby and the rats of nimh by robert c obrien. Worst: This is hard to say considering that most of the books that I choose I seem to enjoy. Its when I HAVE to read a certain book (summer reading lists and book reports)is when I find myself not really liking the book. Longest: I try too stay with nothing larger than 200 pages but if I have to say it would be Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH(310 pgs, something like that).

The Old Man and the Sea. Hands down the worst book EVER.

Best: The Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling
Worst: The Breathtaker, Alice Blanchard
Longest: Dream Catcher, Stephen King
Last: Pet Sematary, Stephen King

Absolutely the Catcher in the Rye. Also, there was this one book that I read a while back called <<Love, Sara>> that sucked almost as much. I think I even left a note in the book saying "For your sake, don't finish reading this" when I returned it to the library.

War (Yawn) and Peace.

Best: The Alexandria Quartet

Worst: On Becoming Madame Mao

Longest: not sure

Last: The Man Without Qualities

Reign In Hell by William Deihl. It was the third in a series and I waited for a year for it to come out. The first two were excellent. The book was fantastic, until the last three chapters- it was like he just ran out of ideas- or lost his train of thought. He just had the "bad guy" give in and the end . . . I was furious.

well one of my favorite books is addicted by zane.. i recommend this book to men and women ofcourse..this is good for a man to read in order for them to understand women just alittle.. alot of the zane books are really good

best=Scorpia
worst=Tangerine
Longest=The Da Vinci Code
Lat=The falcon's Malteser

Best = Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
Worst = hmm i dont know!!
Longest- The Lord Of The Rings

best: Eats, Shoots & Leaves
worst: wonder boys
longest: my live: bill clinton
last: the physics of superheroes

The best, longest and last (I have read it more than once) is The Mist Of Avalon
I have not read a worst one..if it hasn't grabbed my interest by the 2nd or 3rd chapter, I put it down

Best: Les Miserables - Wonderful plot, wonderful philosphy, remerable characters.

Worst: Treasure Island - boring as hell

Longest: Les Miserables - 1200 pgs.

Latest: The Looking Glass Wars - the 'true' story of Alyss and her Wonderland.

Best: "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card

Worst: "The Chamber" by John Grisham

Longest: "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkein

Last: ":07 Seconds or Less" by Jack McCallum (Great book about the Phoenix Suns, you don't have to be a basketball fan to really enjoy it.)

All in one...THE BIBLE

Best is probably Eldest

Worst is probably Onion John

Longest is probably Eldest

Latest is The Hobbit

All Stephen King books rock, I am reading Stephen King's DESPIRATION, in my spare time.

Ive never read a bad book. I can tell if Im not going to like it by the end of the first chapter.

I have to say Best & Longest = The Count of Montecristo (Alexandre Dumas) (about 1,500 pages that I starved, first page to last)
Worst = The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
Last = Forever Odd (Dean Koontz)
and currently reading = The Madman's Tale (John Katzenbach)

Best = The Boy called it (really depressing though!) & of course the HP books
Longest - Sociology - Haralambos!
Last book i read = Dan Brown - Angels and Demons - Great book!

Best- IT, by Stephen King.
Worst-I read a Goosebumps book once.
Longest-The Stand, by Stephen King.

Oh, I forgot to include last- A Clockwork Orange.

Best: Child of the Morning by Pauline Gedge (I cried and I laughed and I wanted to re-read it as soon as I finished it just to be transported again....

Worst: CANT THINK OF A TITLE RIGHT NOW...

Longest: Ancient Evening by Normam Mailer -man does this guy go on and on and on

Last: All that Remains by Patirica Cornwell

Manhood and Marriage by Bernarr Macfadden. Between saying that I'm not really a man until I become a father and women can only find fulfillment as mothers. It was a lousy book. What really made it the worst was the author's constant promotion of eugenics.

For those of you who may not know what eugenics is the short version is "Blond haired, blue eyed people are awesome and everyone else is garbage."

God, there are a few. Let's see...

There was:

Soldier Boy by Anthony Hill was a boringly indoctrinal novel I had to read and analyse in Year 11.

Koba the Dread by Martin Amis was mildly interesting in points, but had little definite structure and was really a complete joke of a novel. The author is the son of a famous historian, and he filled the last third of the book with letters of correspondance between himself and Daddy.

The Russian Revolution 1899-1919 by Richard Pipes was an unashamedly biased view on the period which I found (annoyingly) in the school library. It contains numerous chapters on the 'character' of the 'Russian people' - not exactly a good secondary source.

Pretty much anything by Charles Dickens. I hate plot centered novels, though I do recall liking A Tale of Two Cities. So, anything by CD except for that.

The John Dryden translation of the Aeneid. Really, any translation of a classical work where the translator tried to shoehorn it into rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter; it just turns an enjoyable read into an absolute slog.

Best is a toughy:I'll go with Blind Spot by Joseph Harrington.
Worst: David Copperfield-999pp.of sheer boredom.
Longest: The longest to read, though not in pages, was Of Human Action, the tome by Ludwig Von Mieses, no doubt in my mind the greatest economist of the twentieth century. Translated from the German. Percy Greaves wrote A Glossery To Of Human Action covering the ecom terms such as Catalactics-but you still needed your dictionary handy to differentiate between neoplasm & pleonasm!
Last: Nathan's Run-a good read by Gilstrap.

Best - "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran.

Worst - Hmm...maybe Roadwork by Stephen King under the name Richard Bachman, I was just expecting so much I guess.

Longest - The Talisman by Stephen King, besides The Bible.

Last - "Watership Down"

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Such a horrible book.

For the best, well, I love the Harry Potter series, by Joanne Kathleen Rowling, and the best of those are the fifth (Order of the Phoenix) and the seventh (Deathly Hallows). Order of the Phoenix is also one of the longest if not the longest that I've read all the way through (~300,000 words, Scholastic edition).

Worst is I Will Fear No Evil by Heinlein. I loved the concept, actually, but the story got tedious for long stretches.

Most recent (competed) is the fourth installment of the original Warriors series, Rising Storm by Erin Hunter, which is a pretty good read.