It would have to be either The Hunger Games or The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Both are equally without merit. I would say that Hunger I consider to be the more cynical of the two as it is aimed at a younger audience.
EDIT: Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged was pretty damned awful as well. I relegated it to the dumpster about a third of the way through.
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Not that I remember anything specific as it was so long ago, but it was very non interesting. By chapter 3-4 I was just skimming some pages and quit reading all together by 5 or 6. We had chapter tests and I just wrote Did not read, no interest, busy reading 'insert bookname here' (Think it was Firestarter)
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Homicide by David Simon is the one that comes to mind, mostly because I had such high expectations given that my favourite TV show (The Wire) was based on it. Just couldn't get into it.
ESPN keeper league (5 rounds draft; 3 FA pickups per year; points for G, A, W, SO)
Forwards: Ovechkin, McDavid, Huberdeau, Voracek, Boeser, Wennberg, Galchenyuk, Tkachuk, Keller, Arvidsson, Teravainen, Rantanen
D-men: Letang, Keith, Krug, Ellis, Ekblad, Hanifin
Goalies: Murray, Hellebuyck
Bench: Hertl, Bjorkstrand, Gallagher, Domi, Tolvanen, Niskanen, Chychrun, Darling, Mrazek, Jarry
I'm reading it right now actually. Just about done:
Don Quixote
Holy shit is this book ever horrible. No way it gets published today. Yes, if I was born in the 1800s I would love this book and it would be my favorite. But it's 2016. Books like this should be acknowledged the same way we acknowledge caveman sketches - a nice step in the right direction, great for its time, but let's not suggest that the public spend time reading it.
PS - I gave the Crystal Star two stars on Goodreads, my review is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/sho...w_action=false
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F - T. Thompson, Thomas, Nylander, Tarasenko, Arvidsson, Guentzel, Fiala, Quinn, Mittelstadt, Hagel, Zacha, Roslovic, Berggren, Brink, Ostlund
G - Kahkonen, Vejmelka, L. Thompson, Levi, Comrie
D - Hronek, Morrissey, Lundkvist, Girard, Brannstrom, Rathbone, Hanifin, Severson, Durzi
Worst book I ever read? Don't remember as I didn't finish reading it. Lol
You were way more generous than I was. The EU books are hit and miss, but the New Jedi Order, which you are getting close to, is mostly very good. Some of the NJO novels stand out as being the best of the entire EU, so I am sure you'll enjoy them. I haven't read a Star Wars based novel in some time, and don't know if I will now that the EXpanded Universe described in the novels isn't canon anymore. That kind of cheesed me off.
Bottleneckers (12/16 in 2022)
16 team, points only. G: 2-W, 4-SO.
Top 9F, 4D & 1G . Keep 15, Max 23
F: J. Robertson, J. Hughes, Tavares, Lafreniere, Cozens, Newhook, Teravainen, Domi, R. Strome, Laine, Rossi, Raymond, Holtz, Perfetti
D: Bouchard, McAvoy, Morrissey, Heiskanen
G: Vasilevskiy