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21	These are not books to be leafed through quickly. They should be [[SoBadItsGood laughed with (or at) whenever the opportunity arises]]. [[note]](with apologies to Creator/DorothyParker)[[/note]]
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24	* ''[[Literature/TheAdventuresOfStefonRudel Die Abenteuer des Stefón Rudel]]'' is a self-published sci-fi adventure novel by Stefan Knapp regarded by many as Germany's version of ''The Eye of Argon'' thanks to its awkward word choices, poor plotting, and abundant spelling and grammatical errors. But don't take our word for it - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz8ndSfX9K0 take hers]].[[note]]Video is in German[[/note]]
25	* ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfArchieReynolds''. A preteen boy goes about his everyday life, dealing with bullies, playing some harmless pranks with a girl, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and getting into danger dealing with criminals]]. That sounds pretty fun, doesn't it? The problem is in the execution. The kids act very weirdly for kids at that age. A girl cracks an egg over Archie's head and calls him an "egghead." (And she's 12?) The boys act like GirlsHaveCooties or something, despite the fact that real boys and girls that age tend to be discovering each other. There's a lot of godawful repetitive writing. Sometimes the writing tells you something happens, then tells you why it happened, which even books written for younger kids don't do. All sorts of improbable things happen. It's hilarious.
26	* ''[[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 an adult.''
27	** ''Sweet Mother of God, the exclamation marks!'' There's ''more of them than full stops'' on the sample page! If [[Literature/{{Discworld}} multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind]], then so's that. Oh yeah, and [[TheBigListOfBooBoosAndBlunders there's no such thing as a "lightening bolt!"]]
28	* ''Literature/AtlantaNights''. This book was ''[[StylisticSuck deliberately]]'' made bad as a ploy to prove that its publisher, [=PublishAmerica=], is a [[VanityPublishing vanity publisher]]. The book is packed to the rafters with deliberate typos, inconsistencies, etc. Plus, Chapter 34 was written entirely by a computer to make absolutely sure it wouldn't make any sense at all.
29	* Theophilus Marzials's poem, "A Tragedy" is considered ''the'' worst poem in the English language. [[https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Tragedy_(Theo_Marzials) Read it out loud in your most Shakespearean voice.]]
30	* Most, if not all, of the books written by Creator/AynRand. With the overwrought prose, AuthorTract all over the place, {{Anvilicious}} and [[AuthorFilibuster overly long speeches]] filling out [[{{Doorstopper}} overly long books]], protagonists pitted against [[StrawmanPolitical the most blatant and ridiculous collectivist stereotypes ever written]], all exposed with the utmost seriousness, you could have a field day with her books. ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' is generally considered the worst offender.
31	* PlayedWith in ''The Book Of Heroic Failures: The Official Handbook of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain''. The book itself is brilliant, but it's a documentary of scores if not hundreds of [[EpicFail accidents]], [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment mix-ups]], [[RunningGag flubs]], ''[[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench faux-pas]]'', and [[EpicFail general failures]].
32	* One of the oldest surviving examples is Felicia Hemans' ''{{Literature/Casabianca}}'', which is surely the single most parodied poem of all time. The best-known parody (which is also quite an accurate synopsis) being Creator/SpikeMilligan's ''Casabazonka'':
33	-->The boy stood on the burning deck\
34	Whence all but he had fled --\
35	Twit.
36	* ''Literature/TheClique''. It's full of ProductPlacement, MostWritersAreAdults, and disturbing morals, and ''tries its hardest to sex up middle school age girls''. To some, it's also funny (or possibly pathetic) because it's a blatant WishFulfillment fic for the author about the middle-school life she always wanted to have. It has a ''huge'' fan base due to BileFascination.
37	* When author Joy Demorra worked as an editor, she received a ParanormalRomance manuscript so horrible that she had to share it with the internet. Declining to give its actual title, she refers to it as [[https://thebibliosphere.tumblr.com/post/140364171806/crucifix-nail-nipples "Crucifix Nail Nipples"]] after a particularly bizarre piece of MillsAndBoonProse it contained. The plot itself is a massive ClicheStorm: a PuritySue protagonist and her [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad boy]] boyfriend (rather aptly referred to as "Sue" and "Dickhead") must deal with the latter's transformation into a vampire after being given a blow job by a dick-biting vampire (yes, really) behind a club, especially after their initial plan to cure him (having sex, because Sue's pure untouched virgin vagina ''has'' to be the solution to bring him back to life -- and as we later find out, it apparently doesn't count as Sue losing her virginity because True Love) fails. Demorra freely admitted to having started [[INeedAFreakingDrink drinking heavily]] while reading the manuscript, and she's happy to unleash the story's horrors on anyone who asks.
38	* ''Dontrel's Tales'', a collection of short stories written by the creator of the notoriously awful web game ''Dontrel Dolphin'', is almost as ignorant of good writing practices as the latter is of good game design practices. Most of the stories are written in such a rushed fashion that they resemble plot synopses rather than actual stories, and are sometimes so short and pointless that they barely even qualify as "stories" at all; for instance, one of them introduces a trio of zany friends called "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Zany Trio]]", who we are told often go on wacky adventures... [[TakeOurWordForIt which are never shown or described at any other point in the book]]. Despite all this, the book is so earnestly written and its content so completely absurd that it actually ends up being enjoyably bad, unlike its video game counterpart. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G21BL1Bo2tk Hear Lowtax do a dramatic readthrough of one of the stories]].
39	* The ''Literature/DiamondBrothers'' books by Creator/AnthonyHorowitz. [[StylisticSuck Intentionally]]. It's obvious he had fun writing those...
40	* ''[[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=608757 English As She Is Spoke]]'' is a famously SoBadItsGood [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels ''phrase book'']] from the 19th century. It's what happens when a Portuguese guy who doesn't know English but does know French decides to write a Portuguese-English phrasebook by means of a Portuguese-French and a French-English dictionary. Babelfish, before the Internet.
41	* This is the basis of ''Literature/TheEyeOfArgon'''s fame. This Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian style fantasy story is so horrendously written that it causes hysterical fits of laughter as your brain inevitably fails to reconcile the senseless drivel that constitutes this verbal abomination. Many gaming conventions hold "Eye of Argon" parties where players take turns reading it aloud, trying to see who can read it the longest while keeping a straight face (and correctly pronouncing all the bizarrely misspelled words as they are written).
42	* The FBI's [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/06/17/the-fbi-maintains-an-83-page-glossary-of-internet-slang-and-it-is-hilariously-frighteningly-out-of-touch/?tid=sm_fb 83-page internet slang glossary]] was widely mocked upon its publication in 2014 for numerous abbreviations and slang terms that were outdated by many years and some that have likely ''never'' been widely used. (Ever heard someone drop "GIWIST" - "Gee, I wish I'd said that"?)
43	* ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' is ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' without vampires, with even less plot and even worse writing but it's [[{{Narm}} hilarious]] with all the idealized sex scenes.
44	* ''Literature/Ghost2005'', [[MemeticMutation better known as]] the "[[http://hradzka.livejournal.com/194753.html OH JOHN RINGO NO]]" book. It was written by Creator/JohnRingo letting his [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego#Id Id]] run free in order to clear his head of the idea so he could get back to other works whose writing the idea was blocking. Much to his chagrin, a sample posted to the [[Creator/BaenBooks Baen's Bar forums]] resulted in an outpouring of support that demanded it be printed. RuleOfCool fully applies.
45	--> '''hradzka:''' The PALADIN OF SHADOWS series is arguably the most horrifying series of books I have ever read. It has [[DesignatedHero a hero I can't stand]], [[StrawCharacter politics so strong they're comical]], and [[FetishRetardant sex scenes that are downright horrifying]]. [[BileFascination And I cannot stop reading it]]. I am going to buy every single one, and if Ringo ever comes out with a spin-off featuring Katya as [[ItMakesSenseInContext Cottontail the Bionic Whore]], I will buy that too. Because dammit, there's bad, and then there's so bad you have to memorialize it for future generations.
46	* The ''Franchise/StarWars'' ExpandedUniverse novel ''Literature/TheGloveOfDarthVader'' and its sequels are packed with {{Narm}}, {{Anvilicious}} {{Green Aesop}}s, and {{Written Sound Effect}}s (in a ''novel''!); inevitably, many readers enjoy them for it. That the writers in an interview defended the series by pointing to its popularity among students, a demographic notably fond of making fun of media, suggests that they're in on the joke even if they originally weren't. These books were probably aimed at children, given the number of pictures and the painfully simplistic plots. 10 years later, though, they qualify for this trope.
47	* ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'' is a borderline case, either falling into this or GuiltyPleasures.
48	* ''Knight Moves'', supposedly a romance, but in fact awful erotica. A woman accidentally ends up in the men's room of a Medieval Times-type restaurant, which somehow sends her to the Middle Ages. There, she screws her way through most of England before returning to Philadelphia for a hideously racist [[YourMom Your Momma]] rap contest with a street gang who speak nothing even remotely resembling street speak. And if that's not enough, the sex scenes veer from IKEAErotica to PurpleProse and back, violently. One of the more work-safe excerpts:
49	--> "''And 'tis time for us to partake of Pleasure's fruit again, milady. My codpiece has desired your lady-softness all day long.''".
50	** Read a review, in all its {{NSFW}} glory, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150316234205/http://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/f-reviews/review-knight-moves-by-jamaica-layne/ here]].
51	** 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 it's been exposed to the air or seawater for too long (think Art/StatueOfLiberty).
52	** Note to Ms. Layne: [[WrittenSoundEffect written]] [[PacManFever 8-bit video game sound effects]] have no place in erotica. [[RuleThirtyFour Usually.]]
53	** Another of her books, ''A Capitol Affair'', is [[http://www.loveromancepassion.com/review-a-capitol-affair-by-jamaica-layne/ reviewed here]]. The FetishRetardant is exemplified by the use of the word [[Series/{{Coupling}} "melty"]].
54	** There is a suggestion out there that Jamaica Layne is [[MoustacheDePlume not a "her" but a "him"]], given the specifics of the writing. One might also speculate about the identities (or, as the case may be, ''identity'') of the anonymous commenters who pop up to defend her (or his) works without substantive rebuttals to the criticisms made by the review.
55	* ''Literature/LatawnyaTheNaughtyHorseLearnsToSayNoToDrugs''. Just plain hilarious. Very poorly written story of a horse who encounters other horses engaging in "drinking games" and "smoking games". The writing is not only bad but repetitive. The illustrations are downright surreal; you just have to see the horse with a beer bottle in its mouth. Plus, this is probably the only children's book ever in which a horse actually [=ODs=] from marijuana! (Complete with illustration!)
56	** The "about the author" is also hilarious, but probably shouldn't be.
57	* ''Literature/LeftBehind''. Cheesy AirportFantasy gets into a head-on collision with {{Anvilicious}} [[TheMoralSubstitute Christian Fundamentalist propaganda]], with no survivors. Of particular note, the first book gives us [[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2007/01/19/lb-boutros-boutros-carpathia-2/ a scene]] of the BigBad at the United Nations giving what is [[ShowDontTell explicitly described]] as a "moving" speech, with the reader expected to agree. A moving speech that involves... rattling off United Nations trivia. ''[[MundaneMadeAwesome Dramatically]]''. It would be [[{{Narm}} hilarious]] even ''without'' the blogger making fun of it.
58	* ''Llandor'', a fantasy novel by Louise Laurance. Features technology-is-evil rants by the main characters, [[AnimalWrongsGroup 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, [[FelonyMisdemeanor the bastard]]), and ''weird'' morals ("fat people should expect and accept being bullied"). Thought hippie elves were created by Paolini? Wrong. Add a plot ripped from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Franchise/StarWars'', and you've got an [[SoBadItsGood entertaining novel]].
59	* ''Literature/{{Magnus}}'' by Matthew Dickens: PurpleProse galore, but quite entertaining with its comic-book concepts and awesome fight scenes.
60	* The ''Literature/MaradoniaSaga'', a self-published book by teenage author Creator/GloriaTesch, is in the running for the worst piece of fantasy literature to ever be offered for sale. It features poor editing, terrible formatting, inexcusable grammar and punctuation errors, nonsensical characters and plot, and ''plagiarism from [[Literature/TheBible the Bible]]''. All of these things would ordinarily doom a book to [[Horrible/{{Literature}} Horrible]] status. But not in this case. Oh no, somehow it manages to go all the way around the scale again to ''hilarious!'' Be warned, though: trying to read this book will melt your brain. Please use protection and [[http://impishidea.com/spork/maradonia-sporkings-part-one amusing]] [[http://impishidea.com/spork/maradonia-and-the-seven-bridges-spork-part-one commentary]] to preserve your sanity. We don't want to be responsible for any mental damage.
61	* The first 3 books in the ''Literature/{{Meg}}'' series by Steve Alten. Shallow characters and laughing at the laws of reality and probability abound. Jonas Taylor does many things when defeating sharks and villains that are so unlikely and insane that they are awesome.
62	* Dale Courtney's ''Moon People'', a science fiction novel published via vanity press Xlibris, written in a way that makes one wonder whether the author has ever ''seen'' a novel. Just read the first four pages and imagine an ''entire novel'' written like this. Oh, and it has [[http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-0052314049/Moon-People-2.aspx two]] [[http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-0066874049/MOON-PEOPLE-3.aspx sequels]]!
63	* The notorious 1969 hoax novel ''Literature/NakedCameTheStranger'', written by a team of journalists led by Mike [=McGrady=], was deliberately written horribly to ridicule American culture. The book initially sold 20,000 copies, proving [=McGrady's=] theory that SexSells. Once the public was aware that the poor quality of the hoax was intentional, it became even more popular, likely due to the unusual circumstances of the book.
64	* ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Daddy-Single-Harlequin-American-Romance/dp/037316792X One Sexy Daddy]]'' is a pretty run-of-the-mill bodice ripper, though it gets mixed reviews from regular readers of trashy romance novels. What's so bad about this one that it's good is the ''cover''; Lord have mercy, [[MemeticMolester the cover]]! As some have pointed out, that cover alone probably sold a lot of copies, and most of the buyers weren't even child molesters; just people looking for a gag gift...
65	* [[http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Paranormal-Straight-Seduction-Story-ebook/dp/B00866SJ4E ''Now that I'm a Ghost I'm Gay'']] (lack of commas intentional). In addition to the slightly odd NSFW cover (as in, two naked men embracing and about to kiss), the book itself warns you for [[IncrediblyLamePun "a climax that will haunt your fantasies for days."]] "Haunt" is probably not a good word to use while advertising gay pornography, regardless of the number of ghosts in it.
66	* ''The Playboy Sheikh's Virgin Stable Girl'', as this [[http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/blog/the-playbot-sheikhs-virgin-stable-girl-by-sharon-kendrick review]] concludes.
67	--> ''Kaliq dismounted with the same speed and grace as he would remove himself from the body of a woman he had just made love to.''
68	** The site that posted that review, ''Smart Bitches Trashy Books'', grades books on an A+ through F scale, and has an entire rating category exclusively for books so bad they're good: F+. Some of their "so bad it's good" reviews have "higher" (?) grades, though; the book above rated a D-.
69	* {{Music/Amanda Palmer}}'s [[http://amandapalmer.net/blog/20130421/ "Poem for Dhzokhar"]], dedicated to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.
70	* ''The Shadow God''. 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 [[DelusionsOfEloquence innovativeness]] he had never felt before"? [[http://aaronscryptofgorgothica.com/page5.html Read a sample]] and beware of aneurysms.
71	* ''Shadow Zone: Revenge of the Computer Phantoms'', a children's book that does everything wrong. It's a horror novel about a computer game coming to life and invading the real world. It gets many basic facts about computers and games wrong and portrays every aspect of computer nerd culture unrealistically. The plot was as stupid as you could possibly get. And yet, it can be enjoyed for its badness if you can get past the plot.
72	* ''Literature/SkyFightersSeries'', a self-published Amazon sci-fi fantasy series by Creator/RossEberle noted by reviewers for its plagiarism of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', its bizarre pedophilic undertones, its cultural stereotypes and its severe lack of professional editing. Eberle has written 7 books and regularly "re-edits" them, which consists not of editing but rather of adding new content.
73	* Since the 2000s, there's been a surge of twenty and thirty-somethings rereading their old ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'' books and mining them for all the {{camp}} glory they're worth.
74	** Ditto ''Literature/TheBabysittersClub''.
75	* ''[[http://theweek.com/article/index/250692/dinosaur-erotica-exists-heres-what-you-need-to-know Taken By the Pterodactyl]]'', an erotic novella about a farmer being captured by a pterodactyl and taken to his nest, where he deflowers her. Website/TVTropes doesn't judge you if this turns you on, but many readers have laughed hard at its {{narm}}y style and the inherent [[AnachronismStew anachronism]] of pairing humans and dinosaurs ([[BestialityIsDepraved as well as just deviating from normal sexual practices]]).
76	* ''Troll'' by Emma Clark takes everything that can possibly go wrong with self-published romance novels and cranks it to the max. The result plays out almost like a bad erotic story as written by some creepy neckbeard IT guy, despite being [[MoustacheDePlume (supposedly)]] written by a woman. WebVideo/JennyNicholson discusses it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZMt87ZdUbw here]].
77	** As the back-page summary puts it:
78	---> "Twenty-one year old [[TheProtagonist Kyla Atkins]] frequents the Internet [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan in search of her soulmate]]. While online, she meets [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment hot and devilishly handsome]] Justin Brogan. [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Dangerous, arrogant, and quite psychotic]], Justin [[StalkingIsLove hacks into Kyla's computer, and soon he controls everything]], [[AMatchMadeInStockholm including her heart]] and her life."
79	* A significant portion of ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''[='s=] internet fanbase enjoys the books because of the melodramatic plot, unrealistically 'perfect' characters, and [[BishieSparkle sparkling]].
80	* The ''Literature/{{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 number of species, hybrids, and ''puns'' in Xanth increased.
81	** Then there's his Jason Striker books, which have not aged well. It's ''{{Bloodsport}}'' with a middle-aged Judo protagonist and, as usual for Piers Anthony, teenage love interests.
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84	* Creator/AmandaMcKittrickRos. The Inklings (a literary group that included Creator/CSLewis and Creator/JRRTolkien) would have competitions to see who could read her writing for the longest time without laughing.
85	** Here's her prose:
86	--->"Speak! Irene! Wife! Woman! Do not sit in silence and allow the blood that now boils in my veins to ooze through cavities of unrestrained passion and trickle down to drench me with its crimson hue!"
87	** And her poetry:
88	--->Holy Moses! Have a look!\
89	Flesh decayed in every nook!\
90	Some rare bits of brain lie here,\
91	Mortal loads of beef and beer,\
92	Some of whom are turned to dust,\
93	Every one bids lost to lust;\
94	Royal flesh so tinged with 'blue'\
95	Undergoes the same as you.
96	** Creator/MarkTwain himself declared one of her works, ''Irene Iddesleigh'', "one of the greatest unintentionally hilarious novels of all time."
97	* [[http://www.amazon.com/Amish-Romance-Book-Boxed-Set-ebook/dp/B00GEJQ53W/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top Becca Fisher's]] awful Amish romances are poorly researched, rely on [[SaidBookism Said Bookisms]] to a ridiculous degree, and are absolutely cringeworthy.
98	* Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (the original writer of the notorious opening phrase "ItWasADarkAndStormyNight...") has a [[Literature/BulwerLyttonFictionContest contest]] for deliberate SoBadItsGood work named in his "honor". Although, as has been pointed out by many critics, the PurpleProse concisely describes the scene. The book is more notorious than bad. There's also the spinoff Literature/LyttleLyttonContest, which has a word limit on entries to prevent PurpleProse from running rampant.
99	* Creator/GeorgeOrwell discusses the phenomenon as it applies to literature in his essay "[[http://www.george-orwell.org/Good_Bad_Books/0.html Good Bad Books]]".
100	* The works of Creator/HarryStephenKeeler are like this, with his nonsensical novels maintaining a cult following many decades later. A good retrospective on ''why'' his works are so infamous can be found [[http://home.williampoundstone.net/Keeler/Home.html here.]] The Flying Strangler-Baby is one of the best/worst things ever.
101	* The "great" Scottish-Canadian poet [[http://www.nickpage.co.uk/worstweb/McIntyre/mcintyre.html James McIntyre]], 1828-1906, best remembered for the timeless classic, "Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing Over 7,000 Pounds." Sounds so [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Vogon]]. Maybe a truly epic piece of cheese just does that to people’s brains.
102	* The Reverend Creator/LionelFanthorpe, who wrote about 80% of [[ExtrudedBookProduct Badger Books']] sci-fi [[http://www.peltorro.com/examples.htm 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 made it difficult to write anything ''good'' good. He is associated with pages of blatant {{padding}}, plots based on barely disguised Creator/WilliamShakespeare or TabletopGame/{{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 (they never seemed related to each other), and yet more padding. Padding in large amounts! [[OverlyLongGag Unimaginable quantities of padding]]! (And so on...)
103	** And the "Flaz Gaz Heat Ray" [[http://news.ansible.co.uk/plotdev.html "Perhaps the most outrageous deus ex machina ending in all literature"]]:
104	--> '''Nick Lowe:''' There the heroes were, stranded deep in an enemy sector of space, surrounded by an entire enemy fleet with the guns trained on them, when the maestro realized all of a sudden he had only one page left to finish the book. Quick as a flash, the captain barks out: "It's no use, men. We'll have to use the Flaz Gaz Heat Ray." "Not – not the Flaz Gaz Heat Ray!" So they open up this cupboard, and there's this weapon that just blasts the entire fleet into interstellar dust. One almighty zap and the thousand remaining loose ends are quietly incinerated.
105	* The total oeuvre of [[http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/ William Topaz McGonagall]], perpetrator of the worst poetry in the English language - though his considerable popularity at the time suggests that both he and his contemporary audience were [[SoBadItsGood in on the joke.]]
106	** Not only was he crap, he also had awful taste, such as his truly shoddy "tribute poem" to the Tay Bridge Disaster:
107	-->''Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay!\
108	Alas! I am very sorry to say\
109	That ninety lives have been taken away\
110	On the last Sabbath day of 1879,\
111	Which will be remember'd for a very long time.''\
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113	-->’''Twas about seven o’clock at night,\
114	And the wind it blew with all its might,\
115	And the rain came pouring down,\
116	And the dark clouds seem’d to frown,\
117	And the Demon of the air seem’d to say—\
118	“I’ll blow down the Bridge of Tay.”''\
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120	* So bad and eye-catching that you can't look away seems to be the business strategy of author Hunter Fox, whose work includes memorable titles such as "A Billionaire Dinosaur Forced Me Gay" and "Big Foot's Side Piece".
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