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Read a Bad Book (You don’t have to finish it.)

By Librarian

Welcome to the Bad Books Blog, your place to discuss bad fiction, bad nonfiction and bad poetry!  Want to learn more about bad books?  — visit www.badbooks.org, the official home of Bad Books Month.

This entry was posted on July 13, 2007 at 2:05 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Read a Bad Book (You don’t have to finish it.)”

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    July 13, 2007 at 2:05 am

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  2. Marie Reader Says:
    January 7, 2008 at 12:16 am

    I think there should be a new category in the descriptions on the home page for what constitutes a Bad Book–books that make you FEEL BAD.

    I was given the non-fiction memoir ‘The Glass Castle’ by Jeannette Walls, a New York Times Bestseller, and was told that I would love it. I was enchanted from the start and could relate to so many of the experiences of the characters. (By the way, if a book is non-fiction are the people still called ‘characters’?)

    The book was, very briefly, about growing up in an impoverished family infected with alchoholism. Not a happy subject, true, but I couldn’t put it down and I thought I was prepared for the impact it would have on me.

    I did not finish the book (2/3 read). This is a great book and I’m sure that some day I will pick it up again because I feel great respect/love for the author. But right now I don’t want to feel bad.

    An excellent book on many levels, this book made me feel bad so for now, to me, it is a Bad Book.

  3. Marie Reader Says:
    January 9, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    I’m back with a suggestion for another category–’Retractions’. I could only stay away from ‘The Glass Castle’ for two days, whether it made me feel bad or not. I finished the book in that one sitting and now believe it is one of the BEST BOOKS I’ve ever read. In reflection the book has affected me deeply and was a type of therapy that has lifted me at a core level.

    ‘The Glass Castle’ by Jeannette Walls is an excellent book that I would recommend to anyone! (Even if it hurts…)

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