I think a lot depends upon when you read a book. I thought Fifth Business was great.
But bad books is hard to measure. There are some books that I read that have a great story, but the writing style turns me off (anything by Stephen King - great stories, but the writing style doesn't agree with me).
But the worst thing I forced myself to finish was "The Mill on the Floss". I had to read it for an English course in university, and couldn't finish it. A few years later I forced myself to try again, and read it all, but will never again consider reading anything by George Eliot.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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