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What's the worst book that you've ever finished reading? (as in, read from start to finish, without quitting in the middle)?

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Lord of the Rings. Ponderous and dull. Either that or Heart of Darkness.

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Shit, I forgot about LotR. If the middle ~50-60% was condensed into a single chapter my opinion would improve markedly.

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I read LOTR trilogy at ten years old, which I can only assume was possible because I was already used to reading the Bible at that point

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i read the hobbit at ten and lotr at eleven. great books at that age.

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