Ok as the thread title says what books have you picked up, tried reading and just hated so much you had to put it down and never pick it up again? Why did you quit reading it?
I recently tried reading the historical fantasy fiction book Viking: Odin's Child by Tim Severin. I thought the idea of a book about a viking warrior would be awesome. However the book's central character is a scholar who grew up a viking before somehow becoming a christian monk who used church materials to write his memoirs and you're reading his memoirs where he goes on endlessly about how his mother was big and bear like. I ended up so bored by the first 100 pages I just had to quit reading it. This is the first time I figured a book would be enjoyable and then hated it.