i'm considering asking people to recommend me bad books

it's easy to get people to recommend you good books! however, good books make me feel things, often quite intensely. i think usually this is appreciated however i am living what is considered an "interesting life" already and i really don't need a book to put me on the edge in addition to all of the things that normally put me on the edge, like "stalkers" or "immigration" or "wondering if someone i know got shot", etc. similarly i have thought enough about the nature of identity that i'm quite done with it for a while.

most recently i have read Blindsight, which was a good book, but it made me conclude that if i have to choose between another good book and 10 hours straight of youtube shorts, the latter will passively benefit my life by not taking up more of it than i can spare

please recommend me your favorite bad book

back when i was a child my bedtime reading was "Advanced Win32 Programming" by Jeffrey Richter and maybe i should do that again but make it the basics of DSP or something. this would probably benefit my mental health
@whitequark "basics of DSP" makes me think of https://dspguide.com/ ... i don't know if its a "bad book" or "good book" because i did not finish it but parts of it have been moderately useful for me
The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing

@wermi literally that book
@whitequark @wermi Frankly this is the only *good* DSP book.