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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 9 months 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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[–] LevelMiddle@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Jacob’s Room by Woolf. It’s not so much that it’s so awful, but years ago, I tore my hair out reading it for two months. I hated that book, but I needed to get through it. Annotated with the margins all fucked up.

It’s such a thin book, but it has survived many moves. I hated it so much that I need to keep it.

Disclosure: I love Virginia Woolf. I just hated that one book. Maybe if I read it again, I’d feel ok about it.