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** Note that the book has a 2-star average on Amazon. For a long time it had a 3.5 one: Elizabeth and two other people gave it one star each, and two people who ''haven't reviewed anything else on the site'' gave it four and five stars, and the review left by the 4-star one passive-aggressively addressed the points in Elizabeth's review. Suspicious...
* ''Org's Odyssey'' by Duke Otterland. The whole plot is a [[Cliché Storm]] of a fantasy novel about Org of Otterland, a hero born from the daughter of a god who must save Anglia from evil. The beginning explains how the Anthropians came to be, but it comes off as [[Purple Prose]]. Moreover, the battles are unfair — the good guys outnumber the evildoers [[One Sided Battle|7 to 1]]. See the reviews [http://www.amazon.com/Orgs-Odyssey-Tale-Post-human-Earth/dp/0595316794 here.]
** More recently, it's become the replacement read for ''The Eye of Argon'' at
* [[Glenn Beck]]'s ''The Overton Window'' is called one of the worst works of literature ever written. The LA Times said it was less a train-wreck than "[http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/23/entertainment/la-et-rutten-20100623 a lurching, low-speed derailment halfway out of the station]". [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/14/AR2010061405423.html The Washington Post concurs.]
** How terrible is Beck's [[Purple Prose|prose]]? Here's an excerpt from the novel:
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