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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 1 year 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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[–] terminator_chic@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Seven Steps to Biblical SEXcess. It's worse than it sounds. The background is just as bad.

So someone at my church got this book and it was so bad that it became the gag gift that kept being passed around. Each person who received the book would add notes, highlight passages, etc. It includes insights such as advising women that their girly bits smell nasty and men don't like that.

The real curse of the book? Each person who received it got pregnant within the year. We had a surprise pregnancy within the month.