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?

  • Jaderosegrey@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Not on an actual bookshelf and not a real book, per se, but I have kept a copy of “the Eye of Argon” by Jim Theiss on my computer. It is right there, along with my book and short stories.

    I do not think you can write much worse than that.