Badly written books ?

I was looking for something by Erik Larson, whose books I like. Came up with one by Erik J. Larson but didn't notice he's a different author

The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

This is a really terrible book: It uses so much jargon and trying-to-sound-clever writing that once I laboriously unravel one of its obscure, convoluted passages I often find it's about something I already knew (and so would anyone else with a bit of common sense.)