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?

    • CovfefeBoss@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I read it in high school and thought it was kinda mid. It was filled with so many references I didn’t understand.

    • thewildbeej@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      At one point he started describing his gamer gear. I read about 3/4 of a page. Realized I didn’t actually intake that information so started to reread it. Thought, “wtf is is” and just skipped through the pages. It was like 3 full pages of him just describing stuff. From that point forward I just skipped the pages where he would go into painful details.