OMG it's The Memory Palace of Mateo Ricci. Yes, it's as bad as it sounds. Runner up is Travels in the Congo. Had to to read both for book critiques in a world history course. Then in ANOTHER course, the professor was talking about how awful this book was and that he'd had classes critique it. I was like "Um, hel-lo, I was there." He thought it was funny. I told him he should totally give me an "A" in this course just on the principle of putting up with those books in the other course. Geesh.
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