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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 9 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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[–] AvailableAccount5261@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I thought I'd peaked when I was given some fundimentalist Christian books on the duty of a wife to her husband. Then I found a book written by a pastor boasting about his conversions, with the word 'divine revelations' underlined and bolded everytime he mentioned it. I'm not sure he saw his parishioners as human.