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Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Voodoo Lounge
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"The worst book in the world" is like "The funniest joke in the world" or "The most beautiful woman in the world" - too many targets moving too quickly, but I'll give two examples, for different reasnons.
1, 'Pinball' by Jerzy Kosinsky. Written after "Being There", the book that became a Peter Sellers movie masterpiece. 'Pinball' is so bad, it caused me to think that 'Being There' was written by one of his students and he stole the idea.
2 "Bonfire of the Vanities". The crux of the story is that our protagonist is so stupid that a terrible crime committed - a crime that a first year lawyer could clear up with 10 billable hours - causes this supposed Master of the universe to lose everything because the MOTU can't figure out when to shut up. I was yelling at Tom Wolfe the whole time I was reading it. And the movie was worse.
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