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I forgot the name of the book, but it starts out with some alien overlord dying, and a whole bunch of people commit ritualistic sewer slide over the death of the alien, and i just couldn't force myself to care.
I even started writing down names and details on the characters, just to try and make it stick. But I don't remember anything happening, to the point I just forgot to finish it.
Edit: Recommended by my brother, but I just didn't get what he got out of it.
Edit 2: The Praxis
I hope you just coined "ritualistic sewer slide," because that's great.
Alas, I can't take credit, heard it in a Red Letter Media review of The Home.
You can say "suicide", it's fucking fine to use dirty words on the internet.
Sounds like one of the L. Ron Hubbard trash... Battlefield Earth?
Hubbard trash is fun with friends. We used to do shitty movie night before the plague, and one of the last events before lockdown was "Drinking and Dianetics"... It was a choice, really eye opening and deeply stupid. Plus the story of how the nerd herd aquired the DVD was hillarious.
It started off normal enough, a self-help video with a bunch of sunny California people and a higher than expected budget. Tons of power imagery and hints that you would get if you watched south parks "Scientologists believe this" bit.
After that it starts getting weird, bad psychology, incorrect biology and theories that were clearly written by a sci-fi author. The worst was their search for "the original trauma" thing, absolute hog-wash.
People were already out of it by the time we got to the DvD extras, but we all remember the skit with the panther and the actor putting up his dukes like Popeye the sailor man.
The showing was all in good fun, but there was a thing in the back of peoples heads, this is a cult that ruins lives and people fall for this crap.
If you see that book or film, help that person and be excellent to each other.
Could it be The Praxis by Walter Jon Williams? If so, I didn't enjoy it either.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
The Praxis: Don't bother remembering the title, you won't remember the story.