No romance as the main theme. At the very least, very little sexual content. Any intended age group accepted.
We’ve all read bad books, but I want something especially egregious.
I don’t mean something you may not necessarily
agree with, but a book that violates any sensible
writing rules. One full of painful cliches, overdramatic scenes, the complete inability to achieve suspension of disbelief, an incoherent plot with glaring holes.
I want to shake my head in complete disgust lol. Maybe giggle a little.
*Edited for clarification
by Electrical-Fly1458
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Confederacy of Dunces. Pulitzer Prize winner and absolute garbage!
Anne Rice’s later books are bad like that. Pretty much anything after The Vampire Lestat. There’s lots of sex, though.
Miss Aldridge Regrets- by Louise Hare. Sorry but it was tough to stay interested and then the ending made me regret having read the stupid thing at all! What a waste of good hours.
Modelland by Tyra Banks is a fever-dream. I was reluctant to believe there was a ghost writer involved, since it so perfectly captures Tyra’s disjointed, flamboyant way of talking. It was intended to the be the start of a Hunger Games like series, about super-powered models in a dystopian model-Hogwarts, but was cancelled after one book.
I found myself literally unable to process the visuals Tyra describes. The plot is crammed into the final 20% of the book. It’s kinda racist, but in a way that’s so divorced from normal human behavior that you can’t compare it to anything (there’s a warning not to call people with albinism ‘albinos’, but they’re also fascists who speak by hawking loogies). Tyra uses her experiences as a model as the sort of creative foundation for the story, and seems utterly unaware of how messed up some of her apparent experiences have been.
I own a physical copy so that nobody can ever convince me it didn’t happen.
If you want the most hilariously bad story ever written, check out **The Eye of Argon**. There are copies available online, and also a print version with the missing ending from Wildside Press.
(Do have some sympathy for the terrible/genius author, who was just a teenager when he wrote it, and did not intend to be this hilarious.)