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 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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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.

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

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

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.

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.

Timequake. I love Vonnegut but I just remember it being impossible to follow and overall not interesting.

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.