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

Oh boy, Empress Theresa by Norman Boudin. Even though the Amazon review wars are just legendary with Norman not getting the hint that his magnum opus is a terrible book with some of the worst writing I have ever experienced from a commercially released novel, the book itself is a massive trainwreck and a half. Creepy obsession over a fictional underaged girl who can be definitively considered a mary sue, even if I hate the term, by the author. Nonsensical plot with terrible dialogue. Character descriptions on the level of My Immortal. It's on my shelf as a symbol of one of the worst things I have ever read.