Daedelus Jones stood up suddenly from the supper table, toppling the sugar bowl and plate of muffins, and with a furious quickness belying his 350 and some odd pounds of flabby girth, he thundered at his son, Daedulus Jr., “by God, I expect you to take your schooling seriously young man and if I must use my hard earned money to pay for another semester at the Pacific Tech School for Clowns, you will NOT make a mockery of it!”/TUBOB. More here.

Question: The worst novel I've read in recent years was "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" by Gregory Maguire (although I enjoy the music to the Broadway play). Which novel is the worst you've read in the last -- oh, say -- two years?

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