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Originally Posted by GA Russell
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 |
Ditto virtually all of the above.; and the next 2 or 3 were nearly as bad.
But they did get much better after that.