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

[tani]

This is such a hard question, because I suspect that eventually I would break down and read any book, just out of desperation.

1Q84 by Haruki Murkami was the first book that came to mind. I slogged through the whole thing, and hated it intensely. I wouldn't rule out his other works, though. This one could have been a fluke.

A Child Called 'It' by Dave Pelzer, and all its sequels might make it on there. I read the first book, and it was not only a horrifying topic, but pretty badly written, so I might be able to stay away from those.

Catherine Coulter might make the list as well. Admittedly, I've only read one book by her, but it was pretty terrible.

[firecat]

I like some Murakami, but if the book on my island was Kafka on the Shore I would not read it. There was something extremely unpleasant in it.