For me, it’s Jude the Obscure. That book is easily the worst book I have ever read, without a single redeeming quality, other than that it finally ends. I only finished it because Far from the Madding Crowd was so damn good.

But really, Jude is the gold standard of awful books, in my opinion.

What’s your so-awful-it-deserves-shelf-space book, if you have one?

Or am I just weird?

  • MrSnowden@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I have a few: a wonderful old tome on eugenics. A 80’s book on “a man’s guide to sex” (which is hysterical), and a few self published books from family members. My now grown niece still cringes hard at her Elven Priestess story her dad had published.