Bad Books
Today's Highlights:
The Worst Book Ever: A group of writers get together in an attempt to write the worst book ever in order to prove that PublishAmerica is a vanity press and not a legit publishing company.
Creation of a Bad Girl: Totally bizarre litarary scandal involving lots of high powered celebs, sex, and liturature.
Assorted Reading on Bad Books:
Reading 2004: The Not So Good Reads: From the "Bookish" blog, a review of the worst books of 2004
Readers Rant about Sexuality: A bunch of people complain about the sex content of romance novels. Inexplicable.
Bad Book Covers:
Bad Book Covers: A small assortment of some ugly book covers.
Worst Romance Covers: Some funny, meaty reviews about bad romance novel covers. The results from other years can be found
here
Longmire does Romance Novels: Some pretty funny spoofs of actual romance novel covers.
Lots of Lists of Bad Books:
100 Worst Books of the Century: A selection with a bit of an agenda of 100 of the worst books of the century, included for it's occasional forays into cleverness.
Unreccommended Books: A personal list of unfavorites, included mostly for the clever title.
Controversial and Challenged Books in Schooler: A conservative dedicated to helping the children by keeping them away from books. Includes tidbits of wisdome like "Bad is not for us to determine. Bad is what you determine is bad. Bad is what you think is bad for your child."
Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries: More conservative book bashing. I like to show a variety of views here on "The Worst Things".
Literature isn't about bad books, but history frequently is.
: A more liberal take on books that have ruined the world.
The Worst Books Ever: Very large site detailing countless bad fantasy books.
Read it and weep: A very literate guide to books with a great reputation that suck.
Salon's Worst Books 1997: A well written list with lots of great quotes like "Fort Lewis, Washington, seemed especially gray and cold during the winter of 1946-47, at least to me".
Some Contenders for Worst Book Ever:
Passion Moon Rising
Faith of the Fallen
The Sugar Cane
The Worst Book Ever: A group of writers get together in an attempt to write the worst book ever in order to prove that PublishAmerica is a vanity press and not a legit publishing company.
Creation of a Bad Girl: Totally bizarre litarary scandal involving lots of high powered celebs, sex, and liturature.
Assorted Reading on Bad Books:
Reading 2004: The Not So Good Reads: From the "Bookish" blog, a review of the worst books of 2004
Readers Rant about Sexuality: A bunch of people complain about the sex content of romance novels. Inexplicable.
Bad Book Covers:
Bad Book Covers: A small assortment of some ugly book covers.
Worst Romance Covers: Some funny, meaty reviews about bad romance novel covers. The results from other years can be found
here
Longmire does Romance Novels: Some pretty funny spoofs of actual romance novel covers.
Lots of Lists of Bad Books:
100 Worst Books of the Century: A selection with a bit of an agenda of 100 of the worst books of the century, included for it's occasional forays into cleverness.
Unreccommended Books: A personal list of unfavorites, included mostly for the clever title.
Controversial and Challenged Books in Schooler: A conservative dedicated to helping the children by keeping them away from books. Includes tidbits of wisdome like "Bad is not for us to determine. Bad is what you determine is bad. Bad is what you think is bad for your child."
Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries: More conservative book bashing. I like to show a variety of views here on "The Worst Things".
Literature isn't about bad books, but history frequently is.
: A more liberal take on books that have ruined the world.
The Worst Books Ever: Very large site detailing countless bad fantasy books.
Read it and weep: A very literate guide to books with a great reputation that suck.
Salon's Worst Books 1997: A well written list with lots of great quotes like "Fort Lewis, Washington, seemed especially gray and cold during the winter of 1946-47, at least to me".
Some Contenders for Worst Book Ever:
Passion Moon Rising
Faith of the Fallen
The Sugar Cane