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?

  • kathryn_face@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    {Paladin: The Modern Knight by Raleigh Maynard}

    I saw this author at his stand at a Barnes and Nobles not really getting any interaction. I wanted to support a local author so I went ahead and bought it.

    It reads like a middle schooler just beginning to write on Wattpad. It reads like what incels think intelligent, financially secure men do. It was just awful. Support your local authors folks but not this one lol