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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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.
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