Moonjen - You just have GOT to read "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"...it is SO much better than Richard Bach's other books! :-))) (Actually, I do think it's a great book, unlike some of the others who have posted here.)

And what was that comment about dogs supposed to mean? We do not have the right to speak abusively of dogs in an inclusive forum like Mudcat. My dachshund is so upset that he is thinking of committing some rash act, like attacking the neighbour's cast, which if he does, he will indeed be very sorry, I can guaran-damn-tee that!

Ahhhhh....now back to "Worst Books". I have to nominate a book I have just remembered, which my father read to me when he was 10 years old. It was called "Bomba the Jungle Boy", and was a blatant and awful rip-off of the Tarzan books, which in themselves are not what I would call "great literature", although they are quite imaginative and unique. At any rate, Bomba was a sort of 14-year-old version of Tarzan. He had a hapless Negro tribesboy of the same age as a companion...I think his name was Dombi or something like that. Dombi was there simply to get in trouble and be rescued by the gloriously blue-eyed, blond-haired, and Aryan Bomba...who would probably have been wearing a Gap loincloth if such a thing could be had in the jungle.

These books were so incredibly bad, and so full of stereotypes (racial and otherwise) they it really beggars description.

If you haven't felt really ill in some time, mudcatters, pick up a Bomba the Jungle Boy book. There are about 50 episodes of pure drivel to choose from.