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

The Gates of Janus. This was written by serial killer Ian Brady. The first half is rambling pseudo-philosophical nonsense that a college freshman would write. The second half is about other serial killers. It’s all quite pointless, except for the original afterward by Peter Sotos, who described the book as crap and that it was essentially child pornography. A nice cash grab for the publisher, Feral House.