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Which book do you dislike with the most fervency, /lit/?
Mine: Elements of Style by Strunk/White; this book is poison.

>> No.1462008

The Road

>> No.1462011

I've developed a strong distaste for Midnight's Children

>> No.1462014

any abridgment or modernization effort.

>> No.1462018

>>1462011
finish your essay D&E

>> No.1462024

>>1462011
Oh! I thought I was the only one!

>> No.1462026

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

>> No.1462031

>>1462018
D&E writing an essay? What is it, all quotations?

>> No.1462034

>>1462018
I'm pretty much done. It is one hideous patchwork of jstor articles, let me tell you.

>> No.1462064

A Yellow Raft on Blue Water

>> No.1462236

>>1462011
right there with you. Had to read it for a class last trimester, and fucking hated it.

Also, Hawthorne can go fuck himself. With a rusty, metal, bladed dildo.

>> No.1462302

Usually I enjoy books. They go from "that's a fun read" to "I must forever hold onto this book." However, one book has the rare trait of being passively loathed (meaning, bring it up in my company, I will fume) and that is "Planet Of The Damned" by Harry Harrison.

Title was wonderfully cheesy, premise was great, but once the reading started, it was 1 dimensional.

>> No.1462308

I hated slaughterhouse five

>> No.1462323

>>1462308
How come? I really like that one.

>> No.1462339

>>1462323
>>1462308
i too hated slaughterhouse. i thought the so it goes was a cheap little shtick and annoying, the cramming down the throat of boo-hoo anti-war and the humor was mediocre at best

his other books i've read were alright though

>> No.1462342

>>1462323
mostly because I didn't like the main character. he was pathetic, indecisive, and kept trying escape from reality by doing is time/space shifts.

speaking of those shifts, they were all fairly pointless, and didn't advance the plot beyond the same "MC can't deal with his shit" idea.

I just dislike literary works in general. I read things to be entertained, not to get annoyed