Worst book you ever read (or tried to)

[TRXnMe]

I'm 2/3 of the way through A Game of Thrones, the first of the Song of Ice & Fire books, and I'm becoming increasingly bored of it. Not the worst book I've ever read, but far from the most gripping. I don't really care what happens to most of the characters, and I suspect this is one of those rare instances where the TV series is WAY better than the books.

It probably doesn't help that I'm flipping between that and my friend JL's new series, Damned If You Do, which I want to get through before we next meet up. It's about a male succubus and his half-Valkyrie lover, and given that JL can turn the phrase "plastron job" into a punch-line that will split your sides, it's probably not surprising that I was in fits of laughter by the end of the first page.

AGoT might be a much more complex story-line, but it's nowhere near as enjoyable as DiYD.

I'm just into book 4 out of the 5 so far published and have to say that unless you actually enjoy the challenge of keeping track of who betrayed who, when, how and why it is probably very heavy going.

I enjoy complex plots, so I'm loving it.

Considering the mix of *** and violence I suspect it is pretty good TV, but as yet I haven't seen so much as an episode, although a colleague at work insists on discussing the TV version with me now he knows I've read some of the books.