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

Manual of the Warrior of Light by Paulo Coehlo. I read a couple of books by him like between 2014 and 2018. I remember The Alchemist and The Zahir to just name two. A dear friend of mine told me that in her opinion I embody a Warrior of Light as in I would embody the philosophy given in that book. So I eventually got that book and... oh my why do some people hold this as a sort of bible? I don't know. I was so disappointed. The copy I had was really pretty too, but the content... I think I gave it away some time ago but I might get it again just for my personal story and who knows maybe I'll change my mind about it.