A review by greenskydragon
The Eye of Argon by Jim Theis

1.0

What abject horror is contained within these pages! The atrocities of prose, punctuation, hyphenation...words fail me to describe what is proclaimed as a major candidate for "the Worst Story Ever Written." If I were rating this book based on "intentionally horrendous committing of literary atrocities," this story would have gotten five stars. When the spellings and repetitions, misuses and hyphenations have you questioning even the "correct" words you come across and mispronouncing actual words, you know you've stumbled upon a "gem royal." I've read few truly horrible stories (such as this story: http://www.youngwriterssociety.com/work.php?id=104295) which were written that way intentionally, but I'm glad to have found possibly the lowest drivel of writing to have withstood, and in fact been embraced by, modern readers. This work is now a definite part of the standard by which I judge truly horrible literature.