This is interesting ... I had a hard time trying to think of the top 10 or 11, not the worst? I have to admit guilty pleasures of some "worst" categories here, including a Tom Clancy or two and even Atlas Shrugged, for a look into the dark side. But a top 10 worst... let's see:
Earthquake Weather - Powers (a bitter disappointment since I love Anubis Gates!)
The Red and the Black - Stendel (I read it and can't remember a darn thing about it)
Drood - Simmons (it seemed to go on forever)
The Carpetbaggers - Robbins (why did I ever pick that up? Oh yeah, I was 17)
Ender's Game - Card (umm.. anti-climax comes to mind)
Wicked - Maquire (it sure SEEMED to be a funny concept)
Wuthering Heights - Bronte (egad!)
Running with Scissors - Burroughs (maybe 25-30 pages and that was all I could stand)
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez (maybe it's me)
anything by Virginia Woolf... I just don't get her
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