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?

  • NightDreamer73@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    For me, it was Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson. I don’t think I’ve ever been so thoroughly appalled by any book before. Yet I couldn’t bring myself to part from it when I was going through my books. It’s just such a great conversation starter, ya know?