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?

  • Erdosign@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. I don’t think it’s the worst book ever. It has some bright spots, but it was a book I read several times thinking that a book by the Fight Club guy must have some deeper meaning. It doesn’t, but it is poorly paced, sometimes incoherent, tedious edge-lord nonsense.

    • Ayuamarca2020@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I enjoyed Haunted, but then again I love a bit of random gore! The nuns and bowling balls and the buttcheek bits still stick in my head to this day.