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What book is so awful that it deserves a space on your shelf just for being so awful? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by michelleinbal@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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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?

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[–] IamEclipse@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I keep every book I read, this year, I have 2 books that fit your description:

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Someone Like Me by M.R.Carey

Both are just absolute messes of fiction. Poorly thought out and paced plots, terrible characters, and all of the nuance of a brick through a window. Both were book club picks, and whilst I hated every second of reading them, tearing them apart in the meeting was very cathartic.