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

When I was in college, my father gave me a book by Ann Coulter and told me in all earnestness that she was brilliant. Later that night, my BFF and I got stoned and read some of it aloud to each other.

Unfortunately, I threw it away. I should've saved it as a record of the most ridiculous trash I've ever read.