What's the worst book you've ever read, discounting self published crap?
I bought my mom Jo Watson's Among Others half a decade ago for mother's day.
I didn't know much about the industry 
so I thought that it winning the Hugo meant it had to be at least of decent quality. It was so bad that she said it had to read it too 
300 pages of the most pretentious precious child crap
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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.
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I know a lot of people dislike The Forever War but I enjoy it. I also enjoyed the sequel The Infinity Concerto. If you read it with the understanding that most of the book is not about warfare but rather a commentary on the effects of war, and that you don't pick a side, I think you can enjoy it.
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Did you think that anyone didn't immediately realize this? The book was fricking stupid.
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To be clear, yes I thought that many people weren't reading it for the correct reasons and were looking for the dumb action based warfare sci-fi story of the blurb.
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I like it when he comes back to earth and everyone's gay
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I like the part where the female soldiers were required to frick all the male soldiers on Pluto
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Why couldn't we live in the 70s
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If 👏🏻 your 👏🏻 sci-fi 👏🏻 doesn't 👏🏻 have 👏🏻 good 👏🏻 world building 👏🏻
I 👏🏻 DON'T 👏🏻 WANT 👏🏻 IT
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