There are various categories here for Most hated book, or most boring book, most overrated and so on. So I figured I would add another.
What is the most pointless book you have read?
It does not have to be a book you disliked or one that you thought was necessarily bad, but a book that once you got to the end of it the first though that popped into your head was "Why?"
I just finished The Day of the Locust and I did not really dislike it or think it was really badly written but I felt as if it just did not go anywhere. When I got to the end it just felt as if did not really accomplish anything at all.
The first time I read the Great Gatsby I felt that way too. I really enjoyed reading it, but when I got to the end I just wondered why exactly did that have to be written? What was the point of it.
Of course that was when I was in high school and coming back to it having to read it for a college course I did pull away more of the symbolism that was within it.
And by pointless I do not necessarily mean commercialized books that are mass produced and for no other purpose then entertainment, because typically those kind of books are not intended to have a deeper meaning to them.