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?

  • CruelYouth19@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Gwendy’s Final Task by Stephen King & Richard Chizmar is the worst book I’ve read so far and the only reason I still have it is to have the whole trilogy complete and as a reminder of how much it cost me (in my country books are becoming MORE expensive all the time)

    I love King with all my heart but that book was horrendous