I’ve been listening to the Terrible Book Club podcast on and off for awhile now. Most of the time they definitely deliver on their promise of delivering terrible books (they’re how I learned MAGA romance is a thing and now I can’t unlearn it). What really makes the show stick out though are those rare times when they start a book to make fun of it and wind up actually liking it.
This week they wound up loving The Golden Basement, which literally made my jaw drop because I thought nobody but me had read it. They also thought everything I thought about it, even the stuff I didn’t like. Such as its biggest weak point being that it was marketed as a kids’s book even though it’s about late Cold War and 1990s paranoia, and contains some graphically violent scenes. It’s like if Cormac McCarthy wrote a kids’ book but didn’t make any different from the stuff he normally wrote about.
It made me think I should be more open minded about allegedly terrible books. What is a book you read (voluntarily, not for school) that you thought you would hate but wound up loving?
https://terriblebookclub.com/episodes/the-golden-basement-by-david-norman-lewis-episode-s1!c3ccb
by HotCloudz