What is the worst book you've ever read (can be any genre)?
Here's what I wrote on March 1, 2015 about this piece of crap:
If you have some time and wish to take some sort of action to protest falsehoods and outright lies and tabloid "journalism", go down to your local bookstores and take every copy of Edward Klein's Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. The Obamas that you can find and place them in the fiction section.
This book is 300 pages of fabricated quotes from unnamed sources, and I recognize that Edward Klein has no shame, so he doesn't care what he writes or what I say about it, but Regnery Publishing ought to have at least a handful of standards. The shameful thing is that, by publishing a book like this, Regnery discredits -- by association -- all of the other serious, talented, and worthy authors who also have released books under their banner. Chris DeRose had his book Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, the Bill of Rights and the Election That Saved a Nation published by Regnery and it is a fantastic book. DeRose is a talented author, a real historian, and a true journalist, and he doesn't deserve to have his legitimate, important, deeply-researched, wonderfully-written work tainted by being released by the same publisher who also releases blatant lies and cowardly fiction like Edward Klein's book.
This isn't the first time Klein has written a patently untrue "book" filled with fictitious quotes that are all attributed to -- naturally -- unnamed sources or "anonymous insiders". In fact, if you do a Google search for "Edward Klein", the first page of results includes articles about how despicable he is. Not enough of those articles also place blame squarely on his publisher, even though Regnery also published the package of lies that came out directly before Blood Feud. And this isn't a political thing, either. If you check out the articles that delve into Klein's bullshit, you'll find that much of the criticism is from Conservatives, including Sean Hannity, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh (!), and other Conservative sources that also find his lies to be ridiculous. If you write a book bashing the Obamas and the Clintons, you really have to be terrible and discredited if the articles feature headlines like Even Fox & Friends Doesn't Buy Ed Klein's Latest "Bombshell" (UPDATE: Limbaugh Is Skeptical, Too)
Again, the publisher deserves a big segment of the blame, as well. Edward Klein should be throwing his bullshit at the wall and screaming at clouds, but Regnery Publishing believes that he's worthy enough to have his outright lies published and sold, as if he was on the same level as the legitimate historians and writers that they also publish.
Since Regnery Publishing wants to treat Edward Klein like a real writer and Blood Feud like a real book, I guess I'll go ahead and officially review it. So, here is my very official review of Edward Klein's Blood Feud:
Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. The Obamas by Edward Klein (Regnery Publishing, 2014) is garbage that sat out in the sun all summer. Also: it is shit. If you want to experience Blood Feud, or any of Edward Klein's writing, really, I'd suggest going to a dog park, collecting all of the crap deposited by the dogs that visit the park for a full week, putting it in one, large garbage bag, and then taking it to the city dump. Then, take that big garbage bag full of week-old dog crap, empty it on the biggest, nastiest pile of refuse that you can find at the city dump, light it on fire, dive into the flames, make up a bunch of absolutely, positively, ridiculously unbelievable lies, and then shoot yourself. There you go: Edward Klein's "journalism", but with a happier ending.
You can probably find Blood Feud at your local bookstore, but if you buy it, I'll come to your town, kick down your door, berate you for purchasing the book, make you read out-loud some of the blatant and ridiculous lies that Edward Klein attempts to pass off as direct quotations, ask you what you think about that garbage, demand to know why you gave somebody money for that garbage, put the book on the floor, rub your nose in it as if you had gone to the bathroom on the rug, force you to rip all of the pages of the book out and flush them down the toilet, berate you once again, and then put your door back on its hinges just so I could kick it down again for good measure. So...don't buy it.
P.S.: It's also worth nothing that unnamed sources told me, "Buying Edward Klein's book directly funds the work of ISIS, particularly when it comes to video editing for propaganda purposes, food and fuel, ski masks, weaponry, and executing apostates." I can't confirm any information about the person who said that or the validity of their statement, but that's how all of the quotes are presented in Klein's books, so it must be true.
