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Charted: The Best Worst Books Of Our Time

The technology that allows us to read books on our Kindles or iPads is a good thing not only for the sake of convenience, but also because you won’t get caught reading some of the abominable “literature” topping best-seller lists these days. That said, if you’re stocking up on great bad beach reads, we put together a handy guide to some of the most popular, if critically panned, options.

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Charted: The Best Worst Books Of Our Time
Hillary Reinsberg

When the shoddily-written, semi-erotic novel 50 Shades Of Grey topped bestseller lists it was hardly the first sign literary standards were headed downhill. They’ve been headed that way for a while! You thought Twilight was bad, but are you familiar with Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter?

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-Lauren Lipsay and Hillary Reinsberg

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    • Justsomeguy a year ago

      Fail, Hillary and Lauren don’t seem to have read any of the books they are trashing, including the FOUR + novella + encyclopedia books from the Twilight Saga. Twilight, for example, is an elaborate metaphor of how to find/secure heaven-on-earth, through four stages of learn, belief, change, and commit, which happens to parallel LDS’ people’s “first four principles of the gospel,” which are regarded as the basic principles to create a heavenly life on Earth (which is a good way to show that you want to go to heaven). When books like Twilight have sold over 125 million copies, they are more than a guilty pleasure, and those who claim they are, in my experience, either haven’t read them (asw in this case) or they are poor readers. Popular books scratch some thematic itch (usually spiritual) that many people have at the time in a constantly evolving and increasingly secular culture, with a compelling milieu often hidden within a relatively easy-to-read story. That milieu is usually a metaphor for modern/better living; in trash-the-book lists like this, they rarely (if ever) notice that, and thus, miss the point.

    • paul c a year ago

      add hunger games plz

    • kea718 a year ago

      I admit to reading the Twilight series (and there’s 4 books, not 3. Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn) although it is terribly written, it’s still a guilty pleasure of mine. I’ll also admit, I never actually BOUGHT any of the books. And, I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve read every book in the Sookie Stackhouse
      Series. I’m addicted.

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    • Ange a year ago

      Aren’t there four books in the Twilight series? Admittedly, calling them books is a bit of a stretch, but there were still four published; “Twilight” itself is missing from the “trilogy” of covers up there.

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    • Almost ready a year ago

      Have you ever read Last of the Mohicans? Now that is a book that deserves to be on this list. Literary culture is not on a downward trend, it ebbs and flows. It has it’s peaks and crevasses. We are far from the lowest of the low.This is could be anything from a small dip to a slight blip.

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    • JohnnyZombie a year ago

      Gah, looks like my mom’s bookshelf.

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