There is something horrible about rating books, in general, and I'd love to have a discussion about that here, but that doesn't matter immediately.

I'm moreso interested on whether there are books you folks have read that you'd rate 1-3 stars, bad to mediocre, that however you think should be read by people by the conversations it starts, the values, the prose, or any reason at all.

For my part, I'm currently slogging through Samuel Delany's Stars in my Pocket, and while I think, so far, I won't rate it above a 3.5, this man prose's is so excessively rich, so abundant, gorgeous and turgid that people should go through the trouble of fighting his awful storytelling.

After giving this book a second chance, and getting about halfway through, i realize this is actually a great book.

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Whilst scrolling through books on pagebound, I became curious and wanted to know the lowest rated books on this app. (Aside from books that have less than 10 ratings.) Also because scrolling through one star reviews is oddly entertaining for me 😂.

So far, the lowest rated book that I have seen is Lightlark by Alex Aster, with an overall rating of 3.5 stars. I have read this book myself and to be honest it wasn’t that bad. I think that the concept was amazing, though the way that it was executed was done poorly. There were a lot of plotholes, and the love triangle just became annoying.