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What book is so awful that it deserves a space on your shelf just for being so awful? (alien.top)
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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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[–] DerekB52@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I own several books that fit this category. Atlas Shrugged. Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt. I like trying to read stuff from other viewpoints. I haven't gotten to Atlas Shrugged yet.(I plan to read the ~70 page speech towards the end of the book). I read like 40 pages of Hazlitt and stopped cuz it was garbage.

At the start of this year at a library book fair I bought a copy of the Social Animal by David Brooks. After reading a few pages I went online and did a little reading about the book. I then threw it in my recycling bin. It was too bad to keep on my shelf.