What makes a book bad? Is it that it contains content that one might consider unjust, unsound or simply disagreeable? Or is it only bad writers that can produce bad books? As (I believe) Oscar Wilde has said, a good enough book is true. Only the badly-written are false. In this relationship of quality writing and that writing taking to reality in its shape, we may see the implications of a bad book being hard to take seriously and a work written with little care or heated passion. Perhaps, then there are no bad books, but simply untrue books who cannot on their own feet stand. Surely the simplicity of the text bears no impact on the "good" versus "bad" qualities of the work, as children's literature may be of high quality, if a little simpler in wording.

It is hard to say what then, if anything, makes a book bad. It may be more of an individual inclination or even opinion that may reshape the higher traits that one may deem a book or work of writing to be good, if in accordance with that person's preferred personal respected perceptive perspective or partiality.