Far_Administration41@alien.topBtoBooks@metacritics.zone•What book is so awful that it deserves a space on your shelf just for being so awful?English
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10 months agoI have an entire shelf of religious books from a variety of religions. I have read every one cover to cover. It’s why I ended up an atheist 😆
There are some books which are very much a product of their time. The Alchemist is one, as is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and the scribblings of people like Richard Brautigan. If you read them in your late teens/early twenties when they first came out, they were so much part of the zeitgeist that you were swept along and thought they were wonderful. Where you reread them decades later, you realise how badly written and shallow they are, but they still have memories of a special time in your life attached.