Catcher in the Rye. I try it again every couple of years just to see if I can relate to it, and nope - it's still just as stupid as the first time I read it.

The sookie stackhouse books that got turned into true blood have such a fun premise but are appallingly written. A friend and I used to play the audiobooks at parties for laughs.

A collection of short stories by Harlan Ellison.

It was an absolutely insufferable read. Specifically, his foreword between each story.

Moby Dick is the book I hated the most. Just the worst slog that i remember making it through.

Game of thrones, for me. Made for a good basis for a show. Fucking terribly dull to read.

Worst book I've quit is Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. What a horrible book!

Worst I've finished is Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, immediately followed by Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. I'll throw in a special mention for The Scarlet Letter and The Great Gatsby. All terrible books that I finished only because they were required reading in school.

Mine is "the catcher in the rye".

The main character is insufferable and not enough bad things happened to him to make it worth reading the book.

I tend to quit books if I don't find them very good. One I did finish that I fucking hated was The Girl on the Train. All of the characters were fucking insufferable.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. If you could distill pure insufferable smugness into a liquid, this was him squirting it into your mouth while you’re not paying attention and laughing at you while you sputter and gag.

Silas Marner has to be the most boring book I've ever attempted to read.

Didn't help that it was an assignment for school, but it also didn't help that it's literally one of the most boringly written books ever.

The old man and the sea. I learned to hate reading because of assigned books in school and this was the one that drove that hatred most. At times in my childhood I enjoyed reading a couple of novels, but assigned books absolutely destroyed any interest I had. Also having religious cult like parents that always had something stupid to say about reading had a major impact.

A book called The Night by a Venezuelan author.

I feel a bit bad saying this because there are definitely worse books but this one stuck with me as the premise sounded really interesting but the book was nothing like it.

There is a review on goodreads that sums it up pretty nicely.

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The Pearl by John Steinbeck. Its technically a novella but still. Hated it.

Art of War in the Middle Ages. Just fucking interminable.

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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

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.

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.

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.

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova