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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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[–] hikikomori-throwaway@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I'm a splatterpunk, psych thriller, horror, gothic, gore etc fan and I bought a second hand copy of tender is the flesh, I flicked through it and found the pushiness of the veganism allegory a bit too much. Also have the 13 reasons why book, just because I stumbled across it in a thrift store and thought it was funny. I also have all six of the fifty shades books, and The Mister, another title by EL James, AND Fifty Sheds of Grey, a parody joke book that doesn't have much to do with the franchise. Never read any of them, just found it funny. It's become a bit of an inside joke for me to collect any and all pieces of the fifty shades lore material.