Books

1 readers

1 users here now

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

communick@metacritics.zone

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

259 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Murky-Perceptions@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Private Parts by HS, read it young and was one of the reasons I’ve kept reading. It was hilarious, well written and wasn’t at all pretentious. One of the few real “lol” books I’ve read.

I’m sure being 11 or 12 had something to do with it, I have not went back to revisit that literary Masterpiece, nor have I read the sequel.