/lit/ - Literature

>>15012323
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

The Bible

Self-Reliance

>>15012323
The Zen of motorcycle maintenance.

>>15012323
Far and away pic related.

>>15012403
Why did you even read this you fucking fag

>>15012403
Did you read the whole thing?

>>15012403
Isn't there an album with the same titles ? I know there's Milk and Kisses by the Cocteau Twins, but i think there was a milk and honey somewhere.

>>15012420
milk and honey is a classic idiom

>>15012323
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

I didn't finish this, but it was incredibly bad. For whatever reason, a lot of steampunk novels seem to want to beat you over the head with some kind of ideology (like feminism in basically any Cherie Priest novel) and this one was no exception. The author is clearly a very committed anti-Christian atheist, and it bleeds through the characters with as much subtlety as a brick to the face. Most of the time I can get past stuff like that if the writing is good (like I actually enjoy a lot of Cherie Priest novels), but this is just plain bad. Good steampunk fiction, in my experience, is rare, but I have always been fascinated by the legend of Spring Heeled Jack, so I took a chance on this one and was disappointed in a big way.

>>15012323
tried reading 20 000 leagues under the sea as a kid
Fuck that book only got halfway through and it was still just shitty descriptions of the sea

Fifty Shades Freed

>>15012354
Why so

Arturo's Island

>>15012403
That's just shit compressed in the shape of a book lol

>>15012420
there's a song by nick drake that has this title, but I don't know about albums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm9wYWuQDA4

>>15012526
>>15012360
You didnt read these, meme lords

>>15012550
Yes I have, in fact I can say each book gets progressively worse. Forced melodrama, zero depth to characters, quintessential Mary Sue with not one but two personalities in her head.

only redeemable part is when he fucks himself in the ass

>>15012518
I did so at like 10 years, I liked it.

>>15012535
It's a self help book and it has a very boring style.
Probably the first self help book ever.

>>15012323
Anything wrote by a woman

Almost certainly pic related, I was given it by a cougar fuckbuddy who I had talked with about being interested in literature. I had not heard of Rupi Kaur and was curious, then when I read I was appalled by what it contained. I had almost started to develop feelings for the cougar (mommy issues) and her giving me this book really helped me get over that and keep things purely sexual.
>>15012403
Is this worse, as bad, or better? I’m not going to read any more Kaur regardless but I’m curious.

>>15012420
There is a song by Beck with the same title that contains the line “*sniffff* I can smell the VD in the club tonight”
https://youtu.be/zWetzx01Z48

Stalin's cows by Sofia Oksanen

perks of being a wallflower
that was the first year of school I actually read every book assigned and after reading that one I stopped lol

>>15012629
So..... Wouldnt it just be mediocre? not the worst? I think you are misclassifying something being a let down with something being the worst. There are far more crap books than that out there.

>>15012727
I just read good books maybe, but I just didn't enjoy it, it was awful.

>>15012711
odd song, but catchy!

Utter fucking dogshit that got me so mad I threw it into the garbage.

There's a book called Level 26 that is part of a series about a gay detective and there's like 25 levels of evil but the people he hunts are so evil they're on level 26 of the evil scale. Really fucking funny but terrible. A whole chapter was dedicated to describing how the main villain of the book shaved his entire body and then buttered himself up to slide into a latex suit.

>>15012821
made me kek

>>15012323
Joyce's "Ulysses".

>>15012838
Really? Why is that?

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>>15012865
ooga

>>15012821
This sounds great

>>15012727
The worst he read, not the worst book he thinks exists

Unironically Mein kampf

Catcher in the rye or Confessions of an economic hit man. I can’t pick, both were equally garbage but for different reasons.

Venom and Honey, by Jillian Hoy, writing under a pseudonym to make it seem like she isn't a mentally ill white trash lunatic that spends her time trying to promote and associate herself with every power group or person that a "normie" would think is bad.

She has not yet thrown herself at Ted the Lunabomber, but after she's over the latest craze she might pick up on that.
The overlapping cast of characters that wander into and out of groups like Marxist and Nazi, North Korean and Muslim, with no real regard for the ideology is amazing to research. The only thing that is consistent is a worshiping attachment to an enemy counterculture, and a deep believe that they need to convert everyone else, cuz everyone else is a normie, a sleepwalker, a lemming, or a sleeping lemming, which my favorite mixed metaphor, courtesy of the great geniuses of Western Civilization over at Storm Drain. Here's a good link to peer into the freak show of anti-normie political lifestyles.

https://www.nknews.org/2013/05/white-power-and-apocalyptic-cults-pro-dprk-americans-revealed/

>>15012990
Why didn't you like the Catcher in the Rye?

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>>15012537
I read it as a joke, you can fly through it pretty quickly, it was even worse than I imagined.
>>15012678
Cool story lmao. I can't imagine anything being worse but maybe Rupi topped herself.
Even when I one star books I can usually see at least as sliver of why someone would like it, not so with Kaur.

>>15013034
You’d hate /x/

A Song of Ice and Fire

>>15012535
It's repetitive as fuck

>>15012673
based
Fuck women they are all useless whores

>>15012595
>he fucks himself in the ass

God I wish that was me

>>15012595
elaborate

>>15012323
Kiss the Girls by James Patterson

>>15012403
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>>15012678
LOL do you guys even read poetry? Like actually?
You're the same people that call yourselves black metal fans but listen to shit like Deafheaven and Lantlos and were posting rants about Justin Bieber on Facebook in 2010. If you read it's because you're a fucking idiot. It's pretty clear that she writes for IG thots that don't care about literature.

>>15013377
Call an ambulance anon, you're having a stroke

>>15013386
Try speaking in non-memetic turns of phrase.

>>15013377
Nah i'm a dilettante.
Deal with it.

>>15013397
Oh shitttt he got the 'tism!

>>15013416
Well I guess I'm in damage control now! You're so galaxybrained to think that someone whose primary audience has no experience reading poetry is terrible. Would you like to take my sister's virginity, anon? I would be truly honored for her to consumate with such stolid genius as yourself.

>>15012865
pretty kino cover desu

>>15013460
I'd rather take your virginity, if you please ;)

>>15012629
Except Meditations was just him writing to himself never meaning to have it published you retard moron motherfucker

Metro 2033. I really don't know why I stuck it out and read the entire thing.

>>15013034
Hahaha I had this chick added on my last facebook.

>>15012323
lightning thief. it's a videogame in book format. each chapter is a boss

>>15013377
>have never heard of her
>get given a book by her from someone I know well
>read it out of courtesy and end up hating it
>I’m retarded for not knowing what who rupi kaur was in the first place
Fuck off autist

FKA USA

>>15012591
Was this for 50 Shades or the Bible?

>>15014225
>literally can do anything he wants
>knows everything ever
>everyone loves him and anyone who doesn't love him is punished eternally
yup, G-d is a Mary Sue

>>15012403
You haven't read the other "instapoets". Rupi's awful, but the rest of the shits in the bowl are even worse.

>>15012678
That one's substantially better than M&H. That one has two or three half-decent ideas (all of which are woefully underdeveloped, and the rest of the book, as you know, is as trite as possible); M&H has fucking nothing.

>>15014303
This is true. I see sponsored poets constantly and while I’ve refrained from berating any so far it’s been a struggle at times.

>>15012323
in fifth grade we had to read this book called Esperanza Rising that was about some mexican girl crossing the border in a tomato truck or some shit idk it fucking sucked balls

>>15012673
where can i find your office?

>>15012420
Surprised no on has said it yet, Lennon and Yoko

>>15013377
Black metal purists are the most retarded cunts on the planet.

>>15013377
we're hitting levels of autism I didn't even know were possible
>>15015438
true

>>15012323
The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer
So boring I started flipping through the pages

>>15012360
OUCH! Oh sorry, cut myself on your edge.

>>15012323
That’s an ape

>>15013331
goes back in time and fuck his 16 year old self or something

>>15012323
Eon

awful. absolutely awful. i was 12 and retarded and since read much more, but this is by far the worst book i have ever read. utter garbage. i can't believe it wasn't self-published, let alone made into a movie. this is worse than mockingjay, any scott westerfield books, percy jackson, john green, any YA, star wars novels, harper lee books, gay slam poetry, sartre, anything. i recommend anyone reads this just to see the rock bottom of human literature. amazingly bad. i roll my eyes when someone says they dislike nabokov or dfw or dosto because i've read this book.

>>15015499
hot

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>>15012494
the cover art pretty much denounces the quality ahead, but I admire your courage for going through.

>>15013377
>You're the same people that call yourselves black metal fans but listen to shit like Deafheaven and Lantlos and were posting rants about Justin Bieber on Facebook in 2010.
kek, such a specific callout
haven’t listened to enough grausamkeit for the day have you yet?

>>15015438
>>15015450
its the most /lit/ of metal genres
romanticism

Granted, it was a 10th grade required reading. I'll give it another try once quarantine is over with and I can get it at the Goodwill bookstore for $3.

>>15012323
Michael Kohlhaas

Piece of shit book

>>15012403
Just be female and brown and you can get away with writing dogshit like this.

>>15013035
not that anon, but i agree with him so i'll throw in my two cents.

imagine liking a book that reads exactly like the anime only the lowest scum among weebs can read
>m-my younger sister will be corrupted by the evil world! i must protect her!
>the world is wrong! i, alone, must guide the poor souls to salvation!
>also, like, uh, i don't get good grades but i'm smart i swear! i'm just a different kind of smart!
fucking hack of a writer

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>>15013377
Deafheaven is way more interesting as a band than a lot of "authentic" black metal. "Authentic" black metal is for people who are more interested in being part of that specific counterculture than for people who commune closely with music.

>>15013377
I exclusively listen to the most TROO Death Meatl bands of all time, Sabaton

>>15018445
>t. onions

Bertolts Brecht book about some chinese ppl

>>15016344
Grausamkeit is dangerously based
Not as based as Murmuüre though
>>15016351
It's the most human genre of metal, if that makes sense. At its best, the levels of pure soul crushing melancholy that it reaches are unrivaled.

>>15012323
Atlas Shrugged

>>15018534
Agreed

>>15012408
not him, but in 2015 i saw what i thought was a quote on some site, it was about something gory and edgy and captioned "rupi kaur. milk and honey"
i downloaded the book on my phone thinking it's some edgy dark novel of some sort, a bit ethnic, a bit senseless, just my type. never opened it.

when i was gifted an ereader years later, i tested it by downloading this book off libgen. opened the first page, it worked, i forgot about it for another couple months.

finally i recalled it again and opened the file. what the fuck? i never thought that "quote" was the whole poem. other poems were just shite. free verse my ass, more like broken down tumblr post.

> this fucking book waited for 3.5years on various devices to retrospectively cuck me and slightly ruin my day

I don't know about "worst", but I remember having to read these for school and not coming anywhere close to finishing them.

Tess of the d'urbervilles
A death in the family
The scarlet letter

For a few years, we had family reading time. I recall not liking these.

Shardik
The catcher in the rye
Grendel

>>15018672
Whats wrong with Grendel?

>>15012323
Bump