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The problem is I can actually name quite a few books I regret reading, but none of those were recommendations lol.
Most recommendations I've gotten are average, maybe a handful of mediocre, but nothing like "why did I waste my life on this?"
Regardless, here is a book (series) I think had to be a prank written as a joke submission that somehow got approved and somehow made enough money to make a complete series: https://www.scholastic.com/andygriffiths/chapter_butt_wars.htm
Seriously I want you to read the Scholastic excerpt and tell me with a straight face the writing wasn't a bet to see if the publisher would pass anything if you slapped a fasade of a poop joke title onto a book.
I cannot emphasis this enough. This doesn't read like a children's humor book, it's literally just a drunken action packed story that the author did a word substitute to see how far this could go lmao.