Most disappointing book relative to expectations?

Ayn Rands Atlas Shrugged , I just didnt care for it and felt that it really insisted upin itself. This is coming from someone who loved The Fountainhead.

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All of dan brown books. I was hoodwinked into reading them by my gay friends. I kinda liked digital fortress and angels &demons but that is

Catcher in the Rye. Genuinely wanted the protagonist dead extremely early on.

"malazan book of the fallen" series. As in, it started pretty strong for like two books, then started gradually losing the plot, by the fifth book one of the two authors left and it took an even sharper nosedive, the last few books were completely r-slurred.

Great Expectations by Charles Peepeeens. You can tell he was paid by the word.

Hamlet, I know it's a play, but I was still disappointed with it.

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. I'd heard that it was such amazing, groundbreaking science fiction, and then I read it and it's the dumbest world-building ever and I genuinely don't think there was a single good thing about it other than how fricking stupid everything was. I especially liked the whole economy based on paying other people so you can do their jobs.

The Guest List by Lucy Foley, I got it because it got some award on Goodreads for murder mystery. The murder didn't even happen til over 50% through the book, the characters were all connected through bullshit, convenient means, and they all were whiney cute twinks with gay butt tragic back stories. By the end I was hoping the bad guy would murder all these fricking whine butt pansies on this island and get away with it.

I will NEVER trust a recommendation from that website or the majority of YouTube channels again, because it's been shown repeatedly they have absolute trash taste.

House of leaves and most recent stuff Alastair Reynolds's has written.

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Probably War and Peace and Anna Karenina

Disappointing relative to expectations: House of Leaves. Bits of it were unsettling, the formatting was fun, and I liked the stuff poking fun at academia. But Reddit peepeeriders made it out to be much more than it actually is. At best, it's a fun meta experiment in the book as physical art. At worst, it's a bunch of stupid crap (looking at you, Johnny) getting in the way of a description of a neat-but-formulaic non-existent horror movie.

Worst book I've read: Someday I'll do a writeup on The Country of Ice Cream Star. A virus kills everyone upon reaching adulthood. Several generations later, America is a country of children sifting through the remnants of past society. A cool premise. But despite the jacket description promising an exciting journey, there is absolutely zero adventure. Instead it's 500 pages of unbelievable worldbuilding, 15-year-olds having s*x, and the author bitching about religion. Also all the survivors are black and it's told first-person in impenetrable fantasy ebonics. Props to the mayofoid author for getting away with it?

Worst when compared to expectations was A Storm of Swords. People hyped it up so much but it wasn't really that much better then A Clash of Kings and I personally liked Feast and Dance way more. Clash was better at building plot and showing what direction the series was going it, Feast had amazing character building and some of the most interesting world building, and Dance did an amazing job at building all the conflicts that are boiling to the top and will come to face in The Winds of Winter. Storm is bridging the plot between Clash and Feast/Dance, it is both building and finishing plots in a way that takes you out of it. I think most people just get caught up in the really cool parts like the red and purple weddings that they overlook the massive downsides.

Actual worst I have ever read was probably something I was made to read in highschool. I had a liberal teacher who made us read a lot about the struggle of the , which in turn made me hate those alcoholic degenerates. But for something I read of my own volition, probably one of the older Warcraft novels. The newer ones are interesting and well written to a degree but the older ones are mostly dog duu that tries to be both serious and funny in a way that fails hard.