I thought the Sword of Truth series was worthless. Don't know what people see in it.
There was another book I can't quite remember the name of.
Wizard War or something like that. One of the few books I stopped reading before I got to the end.
Then there is the Deryni series by Katherine Kurtz. It was interesting that she introduced characters that had no relevance to the plot and their only reason for existence was so they could die in horribly tragic ways.
Actually I find I don't understand many books written by women. Their minds just work to differently. The will spend page after page describing how people feel and you won't even know what they look like.