A twist on the "books you'd bring to a desert island" question

[firecat]

A family member was visiting this week and he, the OH, and I were arguing a lot about various books, TV shows, and movies we liked. Even though we're all SFF fans, we couldn't all three find anything that we'd (a) all read/watched and (b) all liked. (We did agree on Star Trek: TNG and the first two Star Wars movies.) So we flipped it around and tried to find something we all agreed that we hated. That was also hard. It led to this game:

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You are a person addicted to reading. You are stranded on a desert island.

On this desert island is also a book, or a series, or the entire ouvre of one author.

What book/series/author, if any, would you REFUSE to read, even if it were the only reading material on the island?

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Rules:

1. You have to have some familiarity with the work, set of works, or author you nominate. So, for example, no fair saying "Rush Limbaugh" if you've never at least started to read any of his books.

2. It's OK to diss works, but not other commenters.

Comments

[akycha]

What a fun game! The Thomas Covenant Books by Steven R. Donaldson, otherwise known as "let's have a rapist for a protagonist, but he's afflicted with leprosy so he's allowed to!"

The entire oeuvre of Piers Anthony, some of which I read when I was young, stupid, and did not know he was a defender active proponent of child sexual abuse.

The Gor series (admittedly I have only read selected paragraphs, but they were enough, although sometimes unintentionally hilarious)

Anything by Vox Day. The bits being described by Imperator Nataliosa via Twitter are QUITE ENOUGH.

[ironed_orchid]

Posted as a reply to you by mistake.

[firecat]

The Covenant books were the ones that taught me it was OK to stop reading a book or series if I hated it. Unfortunately, it only taught me that AFTER I'd finished it.

I liked the one Piers Anthony book I read, but I've been warned to stay away from all the rest, and yeah, some author behavior means the books are tainted.

I used one of the Gor books as porn when I was a teenager, so if they were on my desert island, I would probably read that one again for nostalgia value.