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

My mother made me take my grandmother to the cinema to see the movie of that. Jesus was that awful. I was maybe 15. There was the scene where the kids died and there were three sex scenes. She fell asleep and was snoring through the third loudly enough that people turned around to give pointed looks. No way was I waking her up though.