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Jun. 24th, 2019 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leafIn the comments of this mildly satirical piece on how to write book recommendation lists, the author, James Nicholls, wonders if anyone would be interested in his "Top Ten Books That Are By Any Objective Standard Terrible That James Nevertheless Rereads."
Which got me wondering what I reread that falls into that capacity... but also wondering whether, if a book can keep you coming back to it, is it really terrible across the board, or is it merely mostly terrible, yet with one redeeming feature (which, admittedly, you may be virtually the only person left alive who still values it)?
I've got a suspicion I might, ten or twenty years down the line, end up placing "A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet" in that category - I certainly think it's going to end up looking like a massive period piece, unless of course civilisation does break down entirely - but I do enjoy it very much, even though I'm not quite convinced it's actually a good book...
Which got me wondering what I reread that falls into that capacity... but also wondering whether, if a book can keep you coming back to it, is it really terrible across the board, or is it merely mostly terrible, yet with one redeeming feature (which, admittedly, you may be virtually the only person left alive who still values it)?
I've got a suspicion I might, ten or twenty years down the line, end up placing "A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet" in that category - I certainly think it's going to end up looking like a massive period piece, unless of course civilisation does break down entirely - but I do enjoy it very much, even though I'm not quite convinced it's actually a good book...
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Date: 2019-06-25 07:48 am (UTC)