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* ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]'' is a borderline case, either falling into this or [[Guilty Pleasures]]. Were it not for the [[Ham and Cheese|awesomeness that is Jeremy Irons]], the film would not be either.
** You can't hate Inheritance, you could only love it the way Paolini intended or love it [[Narm|the way Paolini didn't intend.]]
* Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (the original writer of the notorious opening phrase "[[It Was a Dark
** There's also the spinoff [[Lyttle Lytton Contest]], which has a word limit on entries to prevent [[Purple Prose]] from running rampant.
** It must be said, though, that Bulwer-Lytton's ''The Last Days of Pompeii'' is actually quite good, if still a bit florid.
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** Methinks I sense a bit of the [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Vogon]] in Mr. Marzials's genes...
* Almost everything by Matthew Reilly.
** ''Temple''. {{spoiler|Professor goes to South America with American troops to find lost idol. The idol powers a weapon that will bring about [[The End of the World
** ''Ice Station'', also by Matthew Reilly's novels. In ''Ice Station'', our brave hero falls into Antarctic waters and finds himself suddenly staring down the barrel of a French nuclear submarine. So what does he do? {{spoiler|While still submerged, he manages to destroy the entire submarine from afar with his ''grappling gun'', before climbing back out of the water unscathed and victorious.}}
** ''Scarecrow'', especially with its {{spoiler|pointless chracter death}} is more of So Bad It's Horrible.
** ''Hell Island'' features a team of US Marines fighting an army of mind-controlled, genetically engineered cyborg gorillas. With guns.
* The first 3 books in the ''[[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 [[Crazy Awesome]].
* 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 [[So Bad It's Good]], 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 [[Shakespeare]] or [[
** And the "Flaz Gaz Heat Ray" [http://news.ansible.co.uk/plotdev.html "Perhaps the most outrageous deus ex machina ending in all literature"]:
{{quote| '''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.}}
* In recent years, there's been a surge of twenty and thirty-somethings rereading their old ''[[Sweet Valley High]]'' books and mining them for all the [[Camp]] glory they're worth.
** Ditto ''[[The
* This is the basis of ''[[The Eye of Argon]]'''s fame. This [[Conan the Barbarian]] 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 turn reading it aloud, trying to see who can read it the longest while holding a straight face.
* ''[[
{{quote| '''hradzka:''' The PALADIN OF SHADOWS series is arguably the most horrifying series of books I have ever read. It has [[Designated Hero|a hero I can't stand]], [[Strawman Political|politics so strong they're comical]], and [[Fan Disservice|sex scenes that are downright horrifying]]. [[Bile Fascination|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 [[It Makes Sense in Context|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.}}
* ''[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''.
** ''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. ** [[The Big List of Booboos and Blunders|There's no such thing as a "lightening bolt"!]]
* ''[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=608757 English As She Is Spoke]'' is a famously [[So Bad It's Good]] ''phrase book'' from the 19th century. 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, [[Older Than Television|before the Internet.]]
* A significant portion of ''[[Twilight (
** And Bella spends so much time dizzy or only partially conscious that it's hard not to wonder whether she was dropped on her head as a baby or just sniffed a lot of powder in Phoenix.
** Browsing through [http://community.livejournal.com/sortofbeautiful/tag/why+we+like+j/b+more+than+e/b+take+2740 here] ''alone'' will confirm the 'significant portion' part.
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** There is a suggestion out there that Jamaica Layne is 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 anonymice who pop up to defend her (or his) works without substantive rebuttals to the criticisms made by the review.
* [[Magnus]] by Matthew Dickens: [[Purple Prose]] galore, but quite entertaining with its comic-book concepts and awesome fight scenes.
* The ''[[
** Then there's his Jason Striker books which have not aged well. It's ''[[Blood Sport]]'' with a middle-aged Judo protagonist and, as usual for Piers Anthony, teenage love interests.
* 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 [http://www2.xlibris.com/book_excerpt.asp?bookid=49194&page=1 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]!
* ''[[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 [[Delusions of Eloquence|innovativeness]] he had never felt before"? [http://aaronscryptofgorgothica.com/page5.html Read a sample] and beware of aneurysms.
* [[Amanda McKittrick Ros]]. The Inklings (a literary group that included [[
{{quote| "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!"}}
** And her poetry:
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Whence all but he had fled --<br />
Twit. }}
* ''[[Latawnya the Naughty Horse Learns
** The "about the author" is also hilarious, but probably shouldn't be.
* [[Left Behind]], cheesy [[Airport Fantasy]] gets into a head-on collision with [[Anvilicious]] [[The Moral Substitute|Christian Fundamentalist Propaganda,]] with no survivors.
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* The works of [[Harry Stephen Keeler]] are like this, with his nonsensical novels maintaining a cult following many decades later.
* The Diamond Brothers books by Anthony Horowitz. Intentionally. It's obvious he had fun writing those...
* The ''[[
* ''[[The Clique]]''. It's full of [[Product Placement]], [[Most Writers Are Adults]], and [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|disturbing morals]], every main character is a [[Jerk Sue]], and ''tries its hardest to sex up middle school age girls''. It has a ''huge'' fan base due to [[Bile Fascination]]. But warning, it's a ''MASSIVE'' trigger for bullying victims.
* Tutis Digital Publishing. Not the content of their publications (which are simply prints of public domain material), but [http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2009/08/odd-pod.html their] [http://brianbusby.blogspot.com/2009/08/pod-publishers-alternate-universe.html covers], which are so strange and inept as to be almost dadaist. The ''[[Land of Oz
* ''[[
* [[George Orwell]] discusses the phenomenon as it applies to literature in his essay "[http://www.george-orwell.org/Good_Bad_Books/0.html Good Bad Books]".
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