Art of War in the Middle Ages. Just fucking interminable.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/44308/pg44308-images.html
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It's also FULL of errors
I've read so many it's hard to say but recently the Star Wars book about Phasma stands out (most of the books since Disney took over are not great). Also a series someone on Reddit recommended that turned out to be basically a guy writing down a game of Stellaris. I don't remember the name of it but it was awful.
Tom Sawyer. I don't think i'd hate it as much if I read it today, but having to read it in middle school was a bitch
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The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Probably not the worst I ever read, but whenever a question such as this comes up my mind immediately goes to one of the Tarot books by Piers Anthony. I don't remember which one, it was just in a pile of books people left in a dorm one time and I had nothing to read. I finished it, but I can't tell you anything about it other than the vague recollection that I hated it.
Profiles in Courage - John F. Kennedy
Should have stuck to being a president… maybe it’d land differently now, but in like 9th grade, it was a total slog.
Timequake. I love Vonnegut but I just remember it being impossible to follow and overall not interesting.
That was my intro to Vonnegut and I rather enjoyed it. Enough to read more from him which is when I realized it wasn't a great book.
I think it was only the worst book for me because of how high my hopes were.
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a novelization of one of my favorite video games
I suffered through it because I love the franchise so much and it wasn't that long but holy shit, I was the writing quality of a grade schooler but with added unnecessary and gross romance between two children.
On the Beach by Nevil Schute
There was a movie adaptation, which was also shit.
Worst book I've finished?
Probably Fellowship of the Ring.
Return of the King was great, though.
There are worse books I started and put down.
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