History SoBadItsGood / Literature

** ''Scarecrow'', especially with its [[spoiler: pointless chracter death]] is more of SoBadIt'sHorrible.

** ''Scarecrow'', especially with its [[spoiler: pointless chracter death]] is more of SoBadItsHorrible.

* The {{Xanth}} series was good in the beginning but has degenerated into So Bad It's Good. It was always meant to be light fantasy, but it got cheesier and cheesier as time went on. [[RunningTheAsylum Fans got more input]]; and the amount of species, hybrids, and ''puns'' in Xanth increased.

* ''TheShadowGod''. Oh dear, ''The Shadow God''. Everyone who's run a Google search for 'Worst book ever' has probably heard of this one, as [[http://www.epinions.com/review/The_Shadow_God_no_author_listed/content_308312051332 this review]] justifiably appears on the internet several times. In short, the thing is so overloaded with side-splitting {{Narm}} and gratingly godawful prose that you just can't help but love the author for his delusions of talent. Seriously, whose day isn't made brighter by lines like, "It infiltrated his lungs, filling them with a kind of [[ShlubbAndKlumpEnglish innovativeness]] he had never felt before"? [[http://aaronscryptofgorgothica.com/page5.html Read a sample]] and beware of aneurysms.

* ''Llandor'', a fantasy novel by Louise Laurance. Features CharacterDerailment, technology-is-evil rants by the main characters, Meat-Eating Is Evil rants by the main characters, a FaceHeelTurn by a technology-loving meat-eater (he came from our world and just couldn't give them up, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous the bastard]]), ''weird'' morals ("fat people should expect and accept being be bullied"). Thought hippie elves were created by Paolini? Wrong. Add a plot ripped from LordOfTheRings and StarWars, and you've got one hell of an [[SoBadItsGood entertaining novel]].

* A significant portion of {{Twilight}}'s internet fanbase enjoys the books because of the melodramatic plot, [[ThirtySuePileup unrealistically 'perfect' characters]], and [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles literal]] [[BishieSparkle sparkling]].

** Totally proven by Dan Bergstein at Spark Notes. He blogged all four books, hilariously mocking every aspect from the characters to the plot holes. He also petitioned for jetpacking werewolves and sword stilts for Emmett so he can "stand and stab" at the same time. http://community.sparknotes.com/index.php/2009/07/16/blogging-twilight-index-page/ Read it.

** Totally proven by Dan Bergstein at Spark Notes. He blogged all four books, hilariously mocking every aspect from the characters to the plot holes. He also petitioned for jetpacking werewolves and sword stilts for Emmett so he can "stand and stab" at the same time. {{http://community.sparknotes.com/index.php/2009/07/16/blogging-twilight-index-page/ Read it.}}

** Totally proven by Dan Bergstein at Spark Notes. He blogged all four books, hilariously mocking every aspect from the characters to the plot holes. He also petitioned for jetpacking werewolves and sword stilts for Emmett so he can "stand and stab" at the same time. [http://community.sparknotes.com/index.php/2009/07/16/blogging-twilight-index-page/ Readit.]

** Totally proven by Dan Bergstein at Spark Notes. He blogged all four books, hilariously mocking every aspect from the characters to the plot holes. He also petitioned for jetpacking werewolves and sword stilts for Emmett so he can "stand and stab" at the same time. [http://community.sparknotes.com/index.php/2009/07/16/blogging-twilight-index-page/ Read it.]

** Totally proven by Dan Bergstein at SparkNotes. He blogged all four books, hilariously mocking every aspect. He also petitioned for jetpacking werewolves and sword stilts for Emmett so he can "stand and stab" at the same time. [http://community.sparknotes.com/index.php/2009/07/16/blogging-twilight-index-page/]

** You can't hate Inheritance, you could only love it the way Paolini intended and [[{{Narm}} the way Paolini didn't intend.]]

* The ''{{Meg}}'' series of books by SteveAlten seems to descend further and further into this with every entry, even as Alten's writing improves in his other books, although [[YourMileageMayVary for some]] the fourth book has reached SoBadItsHorrible. Shallowly-written characters and blatant laughing in the laws of reality and probability abound, with many of the feats performed by the hero, Jonas Taylor, both in defeating sharks and the human villains, being so unlikely and insane, they qualify as CrazyAwesome.
* The [[http://www.peltorro.com/examples.htm Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe]], who wrote about 80% of Badger Books' sci-fi output under so many pseudonyms and with such a rush to churn out nonsense before the deadline that nowadays even he isn't sure which books were his. He was a master of ''deliberately'' writing SoBadItsGood, since the Badger Books methodology was nonconducive to writing that was truly ''good'' good. He is associated with pages of blatant {{padding}}, plots based on barely disguised {{Shakespeare}} or {{chess}} games, more blatant padding, still more padding, a vague relationship to the [[CoversAlwaysLie cover picture, back cover synopsis and title]] he had been given (which never seemed related to each other), and yet more padding. Padding in large amounts! Unimaginably vast quantities of {{padding}}! (And so on...)

* In recent years, there's been a great surge of twenty and thirty-somethings rereading their old ''SweetValleyHigh'' books and mining them for all the camp glory they're worth.

* ''[[http://www.amazon.com/ANTIGUA-Land-Fairies-Wizards-Heroes/dp/1425997821/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product ANTIGUA: The Land of Fairies Wizards and Heroes]]''. The summary is enough to give you a good idea - "Search Inside" if you dare. The scary part? ''It was written by adults''.
** ''Sweet Mother of God, the exclamation marks!'' There's ''more of them than full stops'' on the sample page! If [[{{Discworld}} multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind]], then so's that. And no, Amazon commentators, you ''can't'' get away with stylistic atrocities by claiming it's a children's book; if you honestly believe that, then [[HarryPotter J.K. Rowling]], [[HisDarkMaterials Philip Pullman]] and [[{{Narnia}} the ghost of C.S. Lewis]] would like a word with you. If anything, it's even more imperative that you write well if younger readers are your intended audience so they don't pick up bad habits! Last but not least, [[TheBigListOfBooBoosAndBlunders there's no such thing as a "lightening bolt"!]] For added lulz, according to Amazon.com, customers who viewed this item also viewed ''[[StealthParody Atlanta Nights]]''!
*** Even better than a StealthParody? It's listed as being sold with [[SwordOfTruth Terry Goodkind]] books! And the related books that people buy are all ''knitting books''!
** Written by adults? Were they listening to {{Rhapsody of Fire}} and Music/{{Dragonforce}} and smoking catnip while they wrote this?
*** No, ''that'' would [[RuleOfCool produce]] [[BeyondTheImpossible something]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]]. Like {{Film/Avatar}}.
* ''[[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=608757 English As She Is Spoke]]'' is a famously SoBadItsGood ''phrase book'' from the 19th century. It was a bad translation, not an actual attempt to be funny.
** It's what happens when you get a guy who knows nothing of English relying on two different language-to-language dictionaries to translate. Babelfish, before the advent of the Internet.

* LeftBehind, cheesy AirportFantasy gets into a head-on collision with {{Anvilicious}} [[TheMoralSubstitute Christian Fundamentalist Propaganda,]] with no survivors.

** There's also the spinoff [[http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html Lyttle Lytton]] contest, which has a word limit on entries to prevent PurpleProse from running rampant.

* One of the oldest surviving examples is Felicia Hemans' ''{{Casabianca}}'', which is surely the single most parodied poem of all time. The best-known parody (which is also quite an accurate synopsis) being Spike Milligan's ''Casabazonka'':

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*** No, ''that'' would [[RuleOfCool produce]] [[BeyondTheImpossible something]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]]. Like {{Avatar}}.

*** No, ''that'' would [[RuleOfCool produce]] [[BeyondTheImpossible something]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]]. Like Avatar.

* [[http://www.amazon.com/ANTIGUA-Land-Fairies-Wizards-Heroes/dp/1425997821/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product This book]]. The summary is enough to give you a good idea - "Search Inside" if you dare. The scary part? ''It was written by adults''.

** Hilariously, the hero of the "Knight Moves" is named Lord Verdigris. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdigris Verdigris]] is the green stuff that forms on copper, brass or bronze when its been exposed to the air or seawater for too long (think Statue of Liberty). SoYeah...