/lit/ - Literature

>>20560985
Anon... you know too much

>>19957189

Can we pick who posts next (first person to respond to this)?
And can we agree to wait till it reaches page ten?

>Pamela, Samuel Richardson
Boring, over elaborate and too long. I only read 100 pages before I dropped it and I normally pretty good about finishing, but it was one of the worst books I've ever attempted to read. I remember Pamela as a character was just one of those typical Victorian weak woman, with no personality, who fall hopelessly in love with someone out of her rank, and thats just it for 500 pages. I think it takes a lot of skill to make that interesting, and impossible over such a long book.

>Wise Bloos, Flannery O'Connor
Plot is boring and uninteresting. O'Connor relied too heavily on the Bible for theme and inspiration, so if you haven't read it or if you aren't Catholic, most will either go over your head or won't apply to you anyway. Overrated and shilled too hard by gross C*tholics.

>The Dying Animal, Philip Roth
Got tired of the creepy old Jewish guy trope after a few Roth novels. It really felt like he was inserting himself into a smut where he got to fuck teenage college students and it just made me feel dirty and uncomfortable.

Honourable mentions: Howards End, EM Forster and anything by Chinua Achebe