The worst book I ever read
...was by an author who I have blanked from memory. Perhaps someone knows: all the stories (it was an anthology, broadly SF) involved bodily mutilation - chopping off fingers, for example. The dude was clearly obsessed.

Now I'll normally finish a book even if it's bad, then simply go "Oh well," and move on. But this book was SO bad - badly written, annoying and unsympathetic characters, and irritating storylines - that I felt compelled to set fire to it then throw it flaming out of a third-floor window.

Yes, I have committed the sin of book-burning. And I'm glad I tell you, glad!
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 14:16, 11 replies)

wasn't Michael Moorcock, was it?
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 14:20, closed)

Hahahaha

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 14:30, closed)

That reminds me of Richard Laymon
who fancied himself as a Stephen King-alike, but had to put awful sex scenes in all of his 'horror' stories.
( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 14:21, closed)

oh lord, he was TERRIBLE. compellingly terrible, mind you.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 14:21, closed)

This is on the tip of my tongue
It's some guy who also wrote something really well known that was turned into a movie, I think
( Photoshop Bitch 2014 edition, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 14:25, closed)

You best not be think of Chuck Palahniuk novel 'Haunted'....
One of my faves that.
(Mr Eraserhead Why aren't you a lemon?, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 14:27, closed)

you're thinking of american psycho.
and it isn't.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 14:29, closed)

I don't think he is. Ellis only wrote one anthology and there was minimal gore in it.
Palahniuk (who also wrote Fight Club) wrote an anthology (Haunted) riddled with mutilation.
(Mr Eraserhead Why aren't you a lemon?, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 14:33, closed)

as you were, then.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:28, closed)

Can't be Haunted though.
Not really SF as a category and Guts isn't one to easily be blanked from the memory.
( Pig Bodine., Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:39, closed)

Sounds like anything by
"Chopper" Read (Mark Brandon Read). Google him if you dont know who he is.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 13:21, closed)