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?

  • Bloodysamflint@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have a copy of Gravity’s Rainbow that I’m just waiting for the right sucker to convince to read it.

    I was very briefly tempted to put it on a “recommended reading list” for junior officers when I was a commander, but I’m pretty sure that’s against the Geneva Convention rules.