/lit/ - Literature

>>18321133
I mean, digits don't lie, but you can always start them early by being a responsible parent. Read Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe, The Jungle Book, Treasure Island, and others to them. Get them interested in reading. And if the parents can't/won't, I doubt the four governing bodies out of the Republic and some Locke will kill them as reading assignments sprinkled throughout the course.

Been entertaining myself with a couple of HG Wells stuff. I've seen the old "The Time Machine" film, I listened to the original "War of the Worlds and read the book, so I picked up The Island of Dr. Moreau and it was alright. Once you get past the fact that it's the Island of Misfit Furries , it's a spoopy ride of suspense where the inhabitants slowly turn feral again and the guy has to really fight to survive and escape. Then I read The Food of the Gods, and Jesus Christ, was that a snooze. It went from a new dawning of the food and what it did to the experimental farm to a tense night of fighting giant shit and supposedly getting it under control, only to have it escape time and again to create other disproportionate killers to the kids getting big and suddenly it's all about "muh progress". "Progress goes marching on!" "Progress is unstoppable!" "Soon we'll have to give way to Progress!"
Like, shut the fuck up. I know he was part of the subverting socialist Fabian Society, among other less-than-well-known groups, but it honestly read like The Jungle. Starts with a story, gets good, then kills it for some overt progressivism point. I'm still going to actually read The Time Machine, as well as The Invisible Man, but man, was that book a shitter in the collection.
Any other anons want to share disappointing books by other relatively good authors and why they were disappointing?