One need not look for literary merit or wonder what the authors must have been thinking. What emerges from this list is a kind of wonderfulness all its own: pure badness that can be appreciated like a fine vinegar. Genuine suckiness can come from anywhere. Three of the eight books here are reflexive PRO-MORMON propaganda. The nineteenth century had much worse anti-Mormon novels to offer the true connoisseur of literary badness. But this is not just about reflexive anti-Mormon propaganda. A Study in Scarlet and Riders of the Purple Sage don’t make the cut they are too well written to be genuinely awful. So I went in search of the worst novels in the English language ever to deal with Mormonism-paying special care to include all different kinds of awfulness because one just won’t do. God has spoken, and middling awfulness just won’t do. There must needs be a list of awful Mormon novels to balance the earlier list of great ones.
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