Books that are a waste of time and paper

Timothy Zahn's Star Wars trilogy.  I do not feel my life has benefitted in any way from reading this.

I grew up reading Dragonlance and thought they were SO funny and SO great. I introduced a friend to them when I was around 11 or 12 and she still reads them at 21. I gave that shit up when I was 14. Some things just need to be retired at a certain point.
Seconding Anne Rice, and Dan Brown. Also, any of those typical 'chick-novels' about Manhattan socialites who have lots of shoes and lots of sex. That anyone willingly publishes that crap amazes me.