re: What's a book that you wished you had never picked up (because it sucked so bad)?

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The Nix by Nathan Hill. Pure self indulgent drivel. Can’t for the life of me figure why it was so well reviewed.
Fun to read. Decent social commentary. But I like history, and I'm a teacher. So, target audience in many ways

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I will say that the subplot with the college student was the only part of the book I liked.

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I loved Cloud Atlas

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That's the one I was thinking of picking so I'll just go with it. Talented writer, no doubt. And the most pretentious thing I've ever read, especially his forward. There are parts I enjoy, but overall I loath the book.

Catcher in the Rye too. I hated in as a teenager, and stupidly read it as an adult thinking I'd like it better with more life experience. Nope, still terrible.

Celestine Prophecy. New age psychobabble drivel disguised as spiritual revelations. Having trouble making it through Infinite Jest- have stopped and started multiple times. Full disclosure: I liked both The Road and The Nix

I've tried 3 or 4 Hemingway books, and none of them have clicked for me. I did at least finish The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises. Can't say the same for the other two - A Movable Feast and For Whom the Bell Tolls. It's been several years since I tried them though.

Anything by Jack Kerouac and that whiole stupid hippie trendy fad that people of that era pretend is so important and sacred

Also as a young college moron the cool book was supposed to be “Zen and the Art of motorcycle Maintenance “. I don’t think a single rperson that supposedly thought it was ‘cool’ ever read anything but the title. Because it may actually be the single most unreadable piece of shite ever typed

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

I read it one time, years ago.

I've forgotten all the parts of it I enjoyed and vividly remember the parts of it that turned my stomach.

I wish I had stopped reading when the plot began to reveal itself.

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The road by Cormac Mccarthy it was terrible.

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My step mother agrees with you.

Catcher in the Rye. A world famous book ,but you will read it's entirety waiting for something to happen. I think its fame was the fact that it was the first book talking about prostition that escaped the censor police. Its a must read just to be able to say that you read it. It was discovered that most all serial killers have read this book.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance made me suicidal