It recently came to my mind what the worst book I have ever read was.
When I was in high school, and later shortly after college, I enjoyed reading The Saint short stories and novels by
Leslie Charteris.
I was very curious to read the first one, which was a novel from 1928 called
Meet the Tiger!, but it was long out of print.
It was republished in the US in 1980, and I snapped it up. The writing was just awful. I remember wondering why any publisher would put it out.
http://www.amazon.com/Saint-Meets-Ti...Meet+the+Tiger
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Saint-Meets-...5413749&sr=1-3