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Home > Blogs > Book Nook > Archives > 2011 > December > 15 > Entry
There’s an interesting Twittercise going on right now on Twitter. People are posting their choices for the “Worst Book Ever” with the hashtag #WorstBookEver.
Check it out…join the fun.
Vick Mickunas
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By Raoul
December 17, 2011 9:04 AM | Link to this
Well, it’s a big closet. How about Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyeski? I was forced to read that one and found it incomprehensible. Hundreds of pages of a nutcase mumbling to himself. I thought it was terrible, and yet it is widely considered a classic.
By Mark from St Paul
December 16, 2011 12:02 PM | Link to this
Bait noted and declined. If that’s the worst book you’ve ever read, your library must reach from one side of your hallway closet to the other.
By Raoul
December 16, 2011 7:37 AM | Link to this
Al Franken’s book “Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Liar” was a particularly bad book. Although it had some very funny moments, it was painful to read Franken’s attempts to provide any meaningful documentation of Limbaugh’s supposed lies. It was filled with such trivial minutia that I couldn’t help but think it is no wonder that Air America went belly up. Not that I’m biased or anything. Franken is funny and I am sure he gets a lot of laughs in the Senate Chamber. In fact, there were just enough ‘funny’ votes to get him there.
By Mark from St Paul
December 15, 2011 3:37 PM | Link to this
When I got my Kindle and started reading again, I reread some books by an SF author I’d met and had a few drinks with. Good books, but not great. The series ended one book too soon because the author died, but one of his fans wrote the last book from his notes. It. Was. Dreadful. Because I’d just read the first ten books, they were fresh in my mind and it was painful to see this fan author artlessly recycle all the descriptors and memes from the earlier books. A very painful read but I live in the same town as the fan author and that’s why I’m not naming him or the book. I’ve met him, he’s a nice guy, but he didn’t have the chops to finish someone else’s series.