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?

  • justjansorry@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Call You When I Land is nominally nonfiction by a travel blogger. It’s so bad my partner wouldn’t take it off the plane after she finished it, saying “its not worth carrying to the trash.” My only worry is one of the plane cleaners may have read it accidently.