Literary Origami Heart and Best Titles for Book Folding

~ Amusives

If you think you’d like to try book folding, but don’t want to damage a good book, then you might want to choose one from the online lists of ‘The Worst Books Ever Written’. The following books seem to be particularly unpopular:
– The ‘Twilight’ series by Stephanie Meyer;
– The ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ series by E.L. James;
– ‘The Eye of Argon’ by Jim Theis;
– anything written by or about Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Pamela Anderson, Sylvester Stallone, etc.
– Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susan
– You’ve Been Warned by James Patterson
– any book with the word ‘Inconvenient’ in the title;
– books with however many Steps to Living a Better Life.

Asking a decent editor to save this book would have been like asking a doctor to help a corpse that had fallen from the top of the Empire State Building.
— The New Statesmen –

I ‘summarized’ this out of date self-help book about boundaries in marriage by folding a heart within a heart. I made a two layer paper quill heart to fill the inner heart.

Can you suggest any other books that would be suitable for craft projects?

9 thoughts on “Literary Origami Heart and Best Titles for Book Folding”

  2. I find all the things you do amazing to say the least! By the way, I tried to read 50 Shades. I got about a quarter or a third —can’t remember — of the way through it and found it so cringe-worthy that I stopped reading, and I hadn’t even gotten to the parts that supposedly sold the book. The characterization was so ridiculous that I actually felt embarrassed at different points. I’m not easily embarrassed, and I’ve never felt that way before reading a book, but that was a big factor in why I stopped reading it.

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    1. You are in good company in your response to that book. In 2012, Scott Feschuk of Canada’s MACLEAN’S magazine was less than impressed with the book too… so he wrote a single chapter of a book he called ‘Fifty Shades of Eh’. Here is an excerpt:

      I gaze upon him with my intrepid eyes. My mouth, which is also intrepid, curls into a sly smile. “Did you remember the clamps?” I ask.
      “Canadian Tire was closed. But I found a bunch of clothespins in the garage.”
      I swoon. My breathing quickens. My heart beats a frantic tattoo as I surrender myself to the anticipation of languid erotic pleasures and several hours of splinter removal.

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  3. My wife dragged me to one of the Fifty Shades movies and all I kept thinking was, “Who would READ this garbage?” Wouldn’t have expected “Valley of the Dolls” on the list (not that I’ve read it) but maybe I was too young when it was first published to know a good book from an awful one.

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    1. I don’t remember reading Valley of the Dolls either. One review I saw said “One hundred pages was all I could stand of endless cheesy dialogue between a bunch of sleazy people with no personalities.” Though it was a best seller, it generally got poor reviews.

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  4. Aww, I’d lay off Theis. Sure, Eye of Argon sucked, but he was 16 and it was just published in a fanzine. It’s good for lols and is pretty much loved for how bad it is (much like My Immortal), whereas Meyer and James actually want people to pay for their toxic abuse-glorifying drivel and think it’s actually good! And James comes across as a very nasty person.

    I read a James Patterson once. It was awful.

    You could add the After series, which is a real-person fanfiction of 50 Shades, which is a fanfiction of Twilight. Demon-spawn plagiarists all the way down!

    Are you familiar with Jenny Trout’s snarks? She’s great at digging up this kind of drivel.

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