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of mice and men. its only 100 pages with large lettering and i still couldnt get through it because it was so boring

For me personally: Triton. I remember reading it 25+ years ago. I really had to fight through it, after circa half of it I put it away and never touched it again.

So remarkably not my favorite book that I still feel the exhaustion when thinking about it.

Can't remember the name but there's a novel set in Ireland in the not-too-distant future

Synopsis implied it had become a surveillance state but didn't gave up before confirming due to the literal writing style

I swear every sentence was written in the passive voice (poorly remembered examples):

"It was made known through the clothes he wore they were sent from the department of security"

"As she walked outside the smell made Spring's arrival clear"

Totally fine normally but do it every single sentence and it becomes a mystery novel where the mystery is what the hell you just read!

... Or idk, Harry Potter 5 is pretty meandering

I thought Their Eyes Were Watching God was really rough to read through because Hurston was trying to phonetically write out how her characters spoke and it was painful to read through.

And I like how it is somewhat discussed in American Fiction through the different writers and their approaches to black literature.

The fucking bible, ugh

The Executioner's Song

I've read some utter wank in my day, but the one that first springs to mind is Fault in their Stars by John Green.

Had to read Animal Farm for school. Haven't read it since then, so this could be a now incorrect edgy high school opinion, but I felt that its allegory was so obvious and direct that it had no need to be written and was a waste of time to read when we could've just directly discussed communism instead.