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Listopia > Arthur Chappell's votes on the list The Worst Books I Ever Read (100 Books)
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Peace Is Possible: The Life and Message of Prem Rawat
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"Not only pro-cult propaganda,but mostly just cut and pasted from online material written by members of the cult "
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Total War (The Survivalist, #1)
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"A gun-expert shoots anyone who gets in his way as he heads home to his family and fall out shelter after a nuclear war. An everyone for himself against commies and weirdos tale "
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Going Home (The Survivalist, #1)
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"Virtually a rehash of the Jerry Ahern book series on this list "
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Hitler's Table Talk
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"Hitler's disturbing visions for Germany after the war - be glad it never happened"
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Chariots of The Gods
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"Claims the ancient peoples were too dumb to build pyramids, Stonehenge and other sacred temple sites so aliens did it while we worshiped hem as gods. The writer was caught later planting evidence for a sequel. "
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Raise the Titanic! (Dirk Pitt, #4)
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"Laughable thriller about a race to salvage the Titanic, which is refloated virtually intact. "
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Slave Girl of Gor (Gor, #11)
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"Highly sexist story about bondage and raping women slaves for heir own good. Breath takingly bad repetitive reading "
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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"Ludicrous mystery in which a murder victim leaves clues leading to the discovery that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a secret family. The victim could have just said read the Holy Blood & Holy Grail, and the albino killed me. It would ave time. "
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Holy Bible: New International Version
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"As an atheist, I'm hardly going to like this am I? "
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Mein Kampf
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"Hitler's notorious propaganda autobiography, heavy on anti-semitism. "
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The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
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"Supposedly written on plates of gold seen only by Joseph Smith "
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القرآن الكريم
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"As with the Bible, not believing in God, hardly inspired by this either. "
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The Amityville Horror
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"Notorious hoax claiming a murder house was haunted "
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First Among Equals
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"political novel by a notoriously bad writer, and crook. "
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The Prodigal Daughter (Kane & Abel, #2)
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"political novel by a notoriously bad writer, and crook. Predicts the carer of the first woman U President, but unconvincing. "
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Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
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"Four people do an Ocean's 11 to steal back money they feel swindled out of - the kind of con Archer himself would later go to jail over "
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Kane & Abel (Kane & Abel, #1)
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"Two brothers live a 20th century life echoing that of their Biblical namesakes. sub-Harold Robbins "
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Dianetics: The Original Thesis
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"The original handbook of the Church of Scientology. "
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Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought
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"A lame attempt to summarize the teachings of the cult "
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Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
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"Notoriously bad science fiction about humans remembering when we were civilized and getting rid of alien invaders - a thinly disguised Scientology propaganda tract "
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Jesus on Mars
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"Jesus didn't die, he went off into space. Astronauts find him on Mars. A ludicrous premise taken terribly seriously. "
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A Legend of Montrose
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"An attempt to explain a real murder in fiction, even after telling us what really happened in the prologue. Boring melodrama with one character turning his own horse into a pair of trousers "
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Think: Why You Should Question Everything (Think, #1)
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"A sceptic question the occult but he treats the readers as stupid if they doubt his superior intellect throughout - patronizing. "
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The Psychic Detectives
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"Wilson takes everything at face value and doubts nothing though dealing with stories often questioned and doubted "
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Dracula Unbound
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"Time travelers find Dracula is a giant evil pterodactyl. "
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Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
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"The full updated version of the cult's main handbook. Heavy an jargon, barely readable. "
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An alphabet of English inn signs,: Based on the travels and circular perambulation of John Taylor, the 'water poet,'
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"Tate sneaks his own poems in among the historic ones without saying which are the real one and which are his own. "
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The Malleus Maleficarum
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"Handbook of the European executions, a deranged text on witches, their familiars, how they steal sperm to give to Satan for his babies and how to torture confessions out of them before executing (murdering) them. "
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The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing?
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"Supposedly an independent sociology report but actually commissioned by the Moonies and not surprisingly it discredits the idea of brainwashing "
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Communion: A True Story
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"Already a well known horror writer, Strieber claimed he really was abducted by aliens "
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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"Verne is usually great but here the heroes travel ill prepared at short notice and ride a wooden raft up the lava in a volcanic eruption. "
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Malleus Maleficarum. The classic study of witchcraft
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"The handbook of the Inquisitions, condeming many innocent people, mostly women, to death over deranged nonsense "
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365 Read-Aloud Bedtime Bible Stories
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"Bible stories for impressionable children, God drowns everyone in the Flood out of love and other bedtime horror stories "
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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
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"dire vampire fable for Mormons about safe sex, spawning sequels and lousy movies "
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Seventh Decimate (The Great God's War #1)
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"A man goes on a quest to find out why magic no longer works in his kingdom. The surprise ending can be guessed 30 pages into the book. "
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Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
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"Dire Twilight fan fiction with laughable sex scenes and a protagonist who uses money as an excuse to abuse"
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Protect and Survive
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"Dreadful propaganda advice on how to survive a nuclear attack - virtually certain to get you killed horribly "
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The Third Eye
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"A ludicrous claim to be a Tibetan mystic by a plumber from Plympton who never went anywhere near Tibet. Despite being caught out he wrote many sequels "
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Doctor Who: Cat's Cradle - Warhead (Virgin New Adventures, #6)
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"Unlike other often excellent Dr Who novels, the Doctor barely appears in this at all. "
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Servants of the Wankh (Planet of Adventure, #2)
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"Aside from the embarrassing title, this is a book in which nothing happens. Characters are warned of dangers if they take certain forest or ocean routes but somehow get through everything without facing any problems at all "
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The Problems of Work
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"Scientology text book - nuff said "
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Facts on the Last Temptation of Christ
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"A Christian tract condemning the Martin Scorsese movie and brilliant Nikos Kazantzakis book it is based on "
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Monkeys & Midgets
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"dire graphic novel"
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Angelica's Grotto
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"A man in his 70's discovers internet porn - very unconvincing "
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Kane et abel t2 ***
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"Two brothers in the 20th century live lives predictably echoing those of their Biblical namesakes - awful "
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Aqua Domination
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"A mix of two fetishes, water - wetlook and sado-masochism with intensely unlikeable characters "
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Studies in occultism (The Dennis Wheatley library of the occult ; v. 4)
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"Not really a book at all but a series of notes and footnotes that seem to be random and often incomprehensible. It might a well be untranslated."
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Voices in my ear: The autobiography of a medium
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"A bogus medium talk about her life and work as if ghosts were everywhere around her "
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Letters to My Friends: On Social and Personal Crisis in Today's World
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"Cult leader propaganda "
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The Magic Of Findhorn
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"odd communal sect in Scotland associated with growing giant vegetables "
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The Apocrypha: King James Version
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"The bits left out of many Bibles "
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The Bermuda Triangle
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"Ludicrous theories for perfectly explainable ship and aircraft disappearances "
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The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
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"Not a sports guide but thinly disguised eastern mysticism linked to a cult the writer was following "
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Linda Goodman's Sun Signs
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"simplistic Astrology guide "
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River of Death
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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"A major work of propaganda and conspiracy theory and anti-semitism from late 19th century Russia, but later used by the Nazis and still trotted out by right wing extremists to this day. Vile. "
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In the Days of the Comet
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The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Robinson Crusoe, #2)
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The Marquise of O—
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Docile
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Frankenstein Unbound
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Moonchild
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Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2)
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Island
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"lots of political talking, promotion of LSD and pointless talking minah birds "
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The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)
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The Assignation
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The Spectacles
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Into the Darkness (Darkness, #1)
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Dancing in the Light
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Elite Dangerous: Docking is Difficult
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"unfunny sarcasm throughout"
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Tarantula
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"pretentious as Hell"
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The Monk
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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The Eye of Argon
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The Raven
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I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas
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Goliah: A Utopian Essay
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Resurrection
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The Talkative Tree
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The Holy Bible: New American Standard Version, NASB
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The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
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The Natives
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The Piebald Hippogriff
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Spenser Fairie Queene Oxford University Press
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Perfect Questions Perfect Answers
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The Darwin Elevator (Dire Earth Cycle, #1)
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The Riddle-Master of Hed (Riddle-Master, #1)
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
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Sylvie and Bruno
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The Batman Who Laughs
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Orissor - Is the Way for All
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The Truth About Chakras
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Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue
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Juliette
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Spider-Man: Bloodline
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The Secret of Dreams
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The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
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The Friendship Book 1981
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Hear Yourself: How to Find Peace in a Noisy World
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Splitting the Arrow: Understanding the business of Life
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