Very Bad Things

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jay_lake asks: ?otD: What's the worst book you've ever read?

There are four novels I have begun reading, and will never, ever finish:

- Underworld (Dom DeLillo)
- Shardik (Richard Adams)
- The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
- Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)

The worst book I've ever finished is Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson, which offended me so greatly that I have refused to pick up any of his subsequent work in protest.

[ETA] I somehow managed to blank out the fact that I read James Patterson's Jester, which... wow, I wish I hadn't remembered I'd read it. Just flat fucking awful.