A Confederacy of Dunces tops my list.
The book looked like a really great book. The opening chapter offered promises. But it just never went anywhere I wanted to go. This was one of the few books that I threw in the trash with malice and forethought. I hated it for failing me and wasting my time. Yeah, I know, some people love it.
Honorable mention - Romance books.
Having had a significant interest in girls as a teenager, I wanted to see what they found so attractive about those books. But clearly, they're written by a different life form. The few I started to read weren’t bad, I just started finding other things that I wanted to do. Like clipping my toenails.
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