/lit/ - Literature

50 Shades of Purple by James Joyce.

hary poter

These are erotic novels... They are what they are

Only Revolutions, Mark Z Danielewski.

What the fuck is this fucking fuckity fuck.

The gospel of Luke.

Pretentious asshole, John was the way to go.

Stephen King - The Stand (unedited version)

Life of Pi.

Young Bond

"...And Another Thing" by Eoin Colfer. That dick almost ruined the HHGG for me.

>>3140324

What was wrong with it? I've read it, and it seemed decent enough. Not enough Arthur though.

>>3140305
THROUGH-THE-SCREEN-BROFIST

Walden

>>3140324

>Reading a Hitchhiker book that wasn't made by Adams.

You brought it upon yourself

Oliver Twist (or, poor people are evil and rich people are saints)

Breaking Dawn
The Alchemist
The Casual Vacancy

Midaq fucking Alley.

The Fountainhead.

Shit philosophy and boring prose aside, the story was not engaging, and Ayn Rand doesn't know shit about architecture.

>>3140389
Wow, you're far too dumb to appreciate that book.

Fountainhead's debate in the world of architecture (the classics vs the modernists) is a fucken mirroring for the debate in the literature world at the time (1920s).

Jesus fuck god damn stupid roach.

*squish*

>>3140375
>The Alchemist

It's so bad, isn't it? You mean the Jonson play, right?

>>3140304
When you say unedited, do you mean the uncut?

The Scarlet Letter.
I'm so sorry, I know it's technically brilliant, but I just hate the language, and the story just isn't that great to begin with, in my opinion.
Add to that, I can't interpret Hawthorne's writing for shit, The Scarlet Letter always brings up memories of papers due the next day that haven't even been started.

>>3140493
There's not really much to interpret in The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne's very blatant, despite the use of symbolism. He has the habit of using signs and then explaining them in detail.

>>3140293

>>3140295

4deep2u

>>3140389

I'll have you know Rand was in contact with architects before and during the time she wrote The Fountainhead.

House of Leaves

Prince of Thorns, oh how I hated the protagonist.

The Stranger

>>3140402
Jonathan Rand > Ayn Rand

anything that cunt Robert Muchamore touches. Ruined teenage-spy as a genre

Twilight

I have no idea why I even read that.

>>3140402
Is Atlas Shrugged really that bad? Been thinking about reading it just to know what the fuss is about.

>>3140673

imo you should read it, if only to understand why it's so bad.

Their Eyes Were Watching God.
I didn't feel an ounce of sympathy for her.

Naked Lunch

>>3140673
It's basically the same point told over and over in the same book that's fairly long. Which makes it feel even longer.

>>3140372

I'm A Stupid Faggot: The Post (or, my 3rd grade interpretation of Oliver Twist)

>>3140601
I can't finish this piece of shit book. It seems so interesting to have footnotes of obscure bullshit, but in the end it dances in its own steaming pile of shit until you understand that's the entire point of the novel and nothing else

>>3140305
>>3140334
So, I'm not cray in thinking it was bad?

Four past midnight by Stephen King

>>3140634

1/10

Fifty shades was probably one of the worst.

>>3141289
It pisses me off how the protagonist is always stirring up stuff. You have someone who is rich, handsome, loving, and committed to you, and all you do is complain.

>>3140781
It's teen fiction.

>>3140389
I accidentally read the Fountainhead when I was around 12, didn't really understand any of the underlying meaning and it was hard to get through, but the entire futurist/art deco architecture and early 21st century america and high fashion, etc. depicted really captured me. So I dunno about not engaging. The view the main character had on art as corrupted when shared between people was the only thing I was really able to get out of it, and it's stuck with me and developed my views on art for a long time.

The Kite Runner

The epitome of "fiction" that was pretty much the author's life.

Not fiction, but reading The Secret kind of made me want to kill myself. If we're just talking fiction, then probably Fight Club.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

The thing is only like 200 pages long and it took me a whole week to read because its so fucking stupid. I simply do not understand why people like this shit

>>3141207
>Four past midnight by Stephen King
Secret Window Secret Garden wasn't even that bad. It ended better than most of his stories usually do.

>>3141480

it's "clever" without being "pretentious", "political" without being "preachy", "edgy" while still being "light-hearted", and above all "lolsorandom"

in short, the perfect book for someone who wants to think they're thinking about things

Eragon.

Not just because of the plagiarism. The writing was just really awful, what with the purple prose and the obtuse words the author pulled out of the thesaurus to look smart.

>>3141463

>The Secret

Why would you ever do that to yourself?

>>3141498
or for someone who wants to read a funny ass book. what are some books you actually do find funny?

On The Road

ITT: Books people have decided to hate without reading

>>3141503

A girl I was going out with at the time suggested it might help our relationship.

It didn't.

>>3141508
Excuse me if I don't read books for "humor" factor. There are far better mediums that translate humor better than literature. H2G2 comes across as an entire book written by *~t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m~*

>>3141547

If a girl recommends The Secret, it's time to move on.

>>3141549
really? you don't read funny books? jeez your missing some of the best of the medium dog. Some humor does translate better to text.

>>3140372

Butthurt poorfag detected.

>>3141554

We moved on shortly after. Not because she told me to read The Secret, but because she was the type of girl who thought that giving me The Secret to read would help our relationship.

>>3141558

look, this sort of thing depends on what you're reading for. i've classified them into two categories:

1. people who read mainly for entertainment
2. people who read for knowledge

more power to you if you're reading instead of watching tv, but don't think that you're getting anything more out of reading HG2G than watching, say, south park.

>>3141558
Well not that I don't read funny books. That's a poor way to put it. In fact, I often find myself laughing at books that aren't targeted at being humerous. I'm a pretty easy going guy when it comes to humor so i'm easy to please.

But when the entire book is so inane and "random" that lacks any sort of coherent plot or basic character development, then I just lost interest. And having a whale fall out of the sky and transform into a bowl of petunias doesn't make up for the complete lack of everything else.

>>3141549
>There are far better mediums that translate humor better than literature

Going to have to disagree with you there.

>>3141500
I'm not the most well read person by no means,but could you give me skimmed accounts of whom he plagiarized from and why you hate the book?

>>3140775

EXACTLY!!

>>3141583
so I shouldn't read funny books if I want to be smarter? seriously if yr argument is "if you're not this way, you must be this way" you have a lot more of both kinds of books to read. I believe in everything in moderation.

>>3141583
>hurr I only read 4 knowledge

You sound dumb.

>>3141608

yeah, but one kind of books (the lolsofunnah kind) aren't conducive to intelligence. quality over quantity, life's too short to read bad books, etc.

do whatever you want though. i don't care. i'm just telling you how i feel, and why i don't think HG2G is a worthwhile endeavor, when there are so many better books to read.

>>3141608
SO are you telling me some of the most important works in history with a satirical overtone aren't good books?

>>3141615
>yeah, but one kind of books (the lolsofunnah kind) aren't conducive to intelligence

Some of the greatest writers ever are/were humorous writers and many, if not most, of these are incredible "conductive to intelligence".

>>3141592
Eragon is basically Star Wars: A New Hope.

But Eldest, Brisingr and Inheritance are all pretty decent, enjoyable fantasy imo.

>>3141628

Inheritance was the worst of the lot, imo.

Les Misérables.

>>3140290
I've never jumped on the Twilight hate bandwagon, but it really was the worst book I've read.

>>3141633
Out of curiosity, how come?

I recall enjoying it quite a bit.

>>3141627

in which case they would then fall into the other category for that merit and still be an option.

i'm not saying that all books should be super-serious, or that a worthwhile book can't be funny, i'm saying that any book that's sole purpose is to be funny isn't worth reading, to me.

the hunger games probably

>>3141634
ur a faget

>>3141642

Well, it could be that I didn't finish it, but I just couldn't get past the introduction of the "magic spear that can totally kill dragons, yo" in the first chapter. It probably wasn't as bad as I'm making it, but it was the one where I started noticing all the things that were stupid about the series in general.

I don't know, I stopped reading it and forgot about it.

The Waves of Atlantis.

I hope whoever wrote it is dead.

>>3141678
heh. Fair enough. I thought you were going to mention the other, HUGE deus ex machina that occurs about halfway through the book that eventually helps the good guys win.

I think I was able to mentally brace myself for it though, I mean, we had 3 books so far telling us how unbelivably powerful this bad dude is, and how he's had 100 years to perfect his badassery, and somehow this kid was going to come along and beat him. I was expecting some delicious deus ex from the jump so I was able mentally brace myself and enjoy the ride as I could.

>>3141678
Was it your last fantasy book?

>>3140669
I tried to give it a chance, thought "Hey, maybe I'll disagree with everyone else."

I'd wipe my ass with the pages but even my anus couldn't bear such terrible writing

>>3141698

I recently re-read the His Dark Materials books, if that counts. Before that, probably Legend. I want to get into David Gemmell, but I haven't given him enough time yet.

Unless you're counting Magical Realism

I bought this at an airport because the author was there and looked lonely. The last impulse book buy with a dragon on the cover (Temeraire) had turned out great, so why the fuck not?

Yikes. This shit.. is beyond words. I couldn't even really tell you the plot because it was everywhere. It's about a dragon, his daughters, Christianity, and some villains that don't really have any kind of importance whatsoever. Some rushed, disjointed shit happens at the end and it was horrible. I vaguely remember writing awful Transformers fanfiction at age 13 and it was about on par with this book.

>>3141724

I'm not about to disagree but that cover is banging, yo.

Twilight because I just couldn't get past his smoldering eyes.

Runner up is Planet Of The Damned by Harry Harrison. It could have been better. I burned it after reading it all.

>>3141724
>Betrayed in ancient times by his choice warriors, the dragon prophet sets a plan in motion to bring the traitors to justice. One thousand years later he hatches human daughters from eggs and arms them with the traitors' swords. Either the traitors will repent, or justice will be served.

The author's written two more books following this one.

Le Livre by Pierre Guyotat. Maybe I'm just too damn stupid for this kind of literature.

>>3140290
this piece of shit
a friend gave it to me for my birthday, apparently he read "George R.R. Martin" in the cover and got it for me since I really got into ASOIAF last year (see kids? this is what you get when you read garbage)

Anyway this compilation by Gurm (with no stories from him) consists of more than 10 unbearably cheesy, unoriginal, poorly written "love stories" by astoundingly mediocre fantasy authors, targeting an audience that I can only imagine consists almost exclusively of lonely obese women in their 40's
Gaiman's story was the only thing passable in this trashbag

The first Discworld book or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Some Dan Brown thing I read on a plane - The Lost Symbol I think it was called.

The ending made me want to commit actual violence.

>>3141549
Mention one? Books are the prime way of conveying humor. Kafka has written some pretty funny stuff.

Also worst book ; Might've been Harry Potter - I must admit I was somewhat young, but they never really spoke to me.

World War Z

>>3143684
Fuck it, Yep. I agree here, worse than Harry Potter. Couldn't keep reading after 30-something pages. Rubbish.

my ex-girlfriend convinced me to read the first Twilight book
>"it's more than just masturbatory help for girls, Anon!"
why? oh why did I listen?

Bump for interest

anything by Clive Cussler

>>3143691

Twilight is the single greatest device ever created for weeding out women who are incapable of critical thinking. If they think that shit is romantic, then they are fucked in the head on a very basic level.

>>3143691
Because you're a bitch

>>3140694
This. And The Awakening.

Fuck I'm a humanist and I try to gold respect for all individuals but those protagonists could not have been any less likable.

The invisible man by Ralph Ellison.

Its not that I have anything against Black people but this book isn't so much a book as a series of shoehorned "racism is bad" messages all crammed together with no real interest in making an interesting story.

In the middle of the book is something like a 30 page sermon about why Booker T Washington was the second coming of black jesus only for the plot to suddenly shift gears. It does this over and over again.

Black people need better books.

>>3141480
>>3141498
>implying HHGG isn't hilarious as shit
>implying The HHGG Trilogy isn't GOAT
>implying you have anything in your life you would be shocked enough to see that you could forget to obey the law of gravity

Kiss the Girls
Patterson makes Steven King look like Tolstoy.

The Great Gatsby

Had to read it in high school. Most boring piece of shit ever. I had no idea why I was supposed to give a shit about any of those characters or about any of the events.

Also, the film adaptation was what helped me realize that Sam Waterston is actually a pretty mediocre actor. He'd play a decent Vulcan, though.

Veins
Seriously what was Drew thinking

>>3144316
That happens a lot, being forced to read something tends to make you feel pretty resistant towards liking it.

I actually liked that one though, mostly because I thought Gatsby was a bro and too good for any of the rich assholes he was hanging with.

This book easily takes the cake of "worst book I've ever read".

>>3144283
>forget to obey the law of gravity
But that's not how gravity works.
I bet you read books about dragons and magic goblins too.

L'etranger

>>3144388
It's humour, you can disregard gravity if you so choose.

>>3144316
>>3144281
>>3141634
>>3141520
>>3140694
>>3140493
>ITT: Morons complain about books assigned at school, don't understand that it makes them look like twats.

>>3144398
Saying that makes you look like a twat.

>>3144375
I remember reading this in middle school. It sucked.

>>3144398
>implying it's not genre-fiction reading neckbeards complaining about books they're too stupid to grasp

>>3144398
Some books are absolute 'assigned school reading' fodder. Just because a teacher or professor has a hardon for their pet social commentary doesn't make it a good book.

Night by elie wiesel. Worst fiction ever.

wuthering heights

>>3144388
>he didn't get the reference

Bleak House.

Completely garbage.

The good end happily, the bad unhappily.

Saved you six hundred pages of reading.

>>3144447

Go to bed.

The Kingmaker, Kingbreaker series by Karen Miller, specifically Awakened Mage.

>protagonist is a cunt
>not even a cunt in meaningful way
>every single fucking character is a cunt
>the whole fucking book builds to an "epic ass battle that will evacuate all the shit from your colon"
>battle is two pages long
>literary blue-balls to the fucking max
>only interesting character dies an idiotic, cliche death
>everyone is cunt

*Three Whiny Ass Teenagers.

No meat or bones to the story whatsoever. I just remember it being the bane of my existence after reading it in Middle-school.

Native Son

Let's be nice to black people because... society makes them want to kill? Maybe I read this the wrong way but all I got from it was that Bigger was an asshole.

Twilight. A retarded monkey would right better than Meyers.

>>3140699
What did you not like about it? I've been trying to get through it for a while, but it's just so fucking dense. I do really like it though.

>>3140324
Much better than Mostly Harmless

I was bored out my fucking mind by book three though, book one was coherent and funny and it just slid downhill

As for me, The Casual Vacancy is the worst by far.

>>3145132
Seriously, Fuck Mostly Harmless. It was just depressing and tedious at that point.

>>3145045

how can you be so dumb

>>3140493
>>3140634
>>3140699
>>3141520
>>3141634
>>3143154
>>3144281
>>3144316
>>3144463
>>3145045

all need to reconsider their dumb opinions

worst recent read:

persuasion by jane austen

not that it's an awful book, i just couldn't take the style (yes, i realise that's half of the satire) and the content was terribly dull to me

Stotan by Chris Crutcher
I had to read this in high school because I was sick on the day that we chose books for a report.

>>3144447
>>3144447
I do agree it was pretty bad.

>the scene where they are literally stacked on a pile and the guy is playing his violin
>mfw

>>3145132
As bad as 'Mostly Harmless' was, it at least fit the series. 'And Another Thing' missed the point entirely and was just the author masturbating over Norse mythology and rock stars. Awful.

>>3144447
I do agree it was pretty bad.

>the scene where they are literally stacked on a pile and the guy is playing his violin
>mfw

>>3140295
>mfw that's my favorite book

>>3145187
Are you black?

>>3145243
Bitch please like Adams didn't write about those things himself. Never read The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul? Forgot the part of HHGG with the spaceship flying into the sun at the crescendo of a rock concert?


Actually disregard this I've never read And another thing.

A friend recommended "Elegance of the Hedgehog" to me. Without a doubt the worst shit I ever read all the way through. Simultaneously pretentious and stupid, with characters that are both unsympathetic and unbelievable.

>>3145316
He did write about it, but it didn't become the focus of the story, like eoin colfer did in 'and another thing'. I haven't read 'the long dark tea-time of the soul'.

It just became much more story driven in a really bad way with this book.

The River God by Wilbur Smith. I was so excited too, because I love ancient history novels, or whatever you call them, but good Christ, the MC was such a whiny mary-sue, I nearly punched myself in the face.
Every paragraph starts with him going on about how pretty he is, how loyal and smart and creative and, oh, animals totally love him and everything and everyone wants to bone him and mother of fucking god.
I dropped it after wild birds came to eat out of his hand while the sun lit his hair up like gold or glittering onyx or some shit.

Freedom by Franzen

My nomination is The Lovely Bones
>>3145339
but this is a close second

House Atreides by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

>>3145331

Holy fuck. I loved that book when I was a kid - he invents everything doesn't he?

I understand that it's a long time ago and all, but that book is way too heavy on paedophilia and homosexuality.

In the modern-day sequel (or third novel) the main character rides the surge from a broken dam using only his belly. So bad.

>>3145339

seconded. fucking christ i cant stand this little faggot, nor the other jew fuckers safran foer and eggers. I'm no anti-semitic retard, but for some reason i cant help but refer to them as jew fuckers. i just hate them

The Book Thief
Twilight
Harry Potter


Whenever I'm suckered into reading one of the popular "Young Adult" novels I'm always deeply disappointed.

I only read excellent books approved by /lit/ scholars.

j/k it's Anthem by Ayn Rand. Just terrible

>>3145469

>The Book Thief

oh god it's not just me then. I read it because of a recommendation, and all I could think was "does modern literature really need another account of jews in the holocaust written in first-person?"

Hunger Games. I honestly read all the three books because I wanted to know what happened to any other character that wasn't Katniss

The Invisible Man

Just for the number of shits I did not give. It wasn't controversial; it wasn't about anything other than dull politics. People like it because it's about black people I suppose.

>>3140669
I read that too, one of the most horrible books I've ever read. I read it so I could critize it properly. I'll never get back the hours

>>3145054
>right
4/10
I'm responding aren't I?

>>3144463
go to bed, underageb&

The Life and Death of a Fly

Finnegan's Wake

I've never read any of her books, but Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks. I read her version of Anton Chekhov's "The Lady with the Pet Dog" and her own story "Three Girls" which both had terrible, gimmicky prose. I don't understand how that shit gets published.

The only book I have ever read that was worse than Breakfast of Champions was Bluebeard.

>>3140290
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami. What a waste of time.

>>3146840
>murakami
you should have know better

'House of Stairs' by some fucker.
No, not House of Leaves, House of Stairs.

Granted, I was in HS and hated everything, but I really wanted something dumb to read to give my brain a break but I was on the verge of tears from hating it so much when I got to the end. It was so fucking awful I had to finish it to see what bullshit would tie it all together into a big pile of shit.

>>3146836
Fuck you.

Out of the books from the literary canon, so excluding YA and other random garbage, Women in Love by DH Lawrence and anything by Dickens. DH Lawrence's characters made me wish I could put a fist through the book and punch them all in the genitals, and Dickens keeps inflating a basic ass plot in order to have more chapters to sell. His books absolutely do not work in a non serialized form.

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes.
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.

Seriously, the Booker Prize is the worst indicator of quality.

I read Looking for Alibrandy in high school 4 years ago and holy shit it was terrible

The Scarlet Letter and the first book of the Nightangel trilogy: The Way of Shadows.

I can forgive the Scarlet Letter for being a bullshit book that would appeal to the pretentious. But The Way of Shadows is by far the shittier book.

I've never finished a bad book because, well, they're bad.
Books I had to stop include some shit by Jonathan Kellerman and Atlas Shrugged. That woman is not a writer, she is a philosopher. A bad one.

I read a slew of Sweet Dreams teen romance novels. I enjoyed the descriptions of 80s clothing and the sappy anachronistic language but it is what it is.

>>3140389
>>3141397
>>3140598
For all the weirdness that is Rand, Fountainhead felt like an accomplished, though overly long novel to me. Despite its hilarious characterization and philosophical argument (let alone the cheap porn scenario rape scene), her interest in architecture, and the metaphors she lends from that field lifted the work into mediocrity.

With all that generous praise for a pretty bad work, I can't think of any atrocious ones atm.

>>3145511
did you see the 'than'? This guy knows how to right anon, get over it already

>>3146824
Considering this author's pretty well-respected, you should read her most famous work, and test that first impression

World War Z.

Wuthering Heights.

Don't know why I read it the first time. Hated it.
Had to read it at school a few years later. And then analyze the shit out of it. Hated it even more.

Luckily my professor agreed with me, and we laughed at all of the goth girls who said that it was the most romantic book they've ever read.

Aaaah. I miss my old literature teacher. A crazy son of a bitch with anger issues, but a total bro.

>all these posts
>no DFW, Pynchon and only one Joyce

H...h...has /lit/ grown up?

Fever by Robin Cook. There are like 3 books I couldn't even force myself to finish, and this is one of them. All characters have the emotional dept of a puddle, and yet it goes on and on about how sorry we should be feeling for all of them, goddamn.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

>>3140375
THE MOTHERFUCKING ALCHEMIST

TRIPPLE-CAPS WOULDN'T SUFFICE TO EMPHASIZE JUST HOW BAD IT WAS.

the horror...

>>3149952
The Ben Jonson or the other one?

>>3149960
the other one. coelho i think.

i have no face for the moment when i had to explain 6 bitches from school why this is worst book ive ever read and they all loved it.

>>3149965
I do this like every day with Downton Abbey. The BBC basically told Julian Fellowes that his show was shit.

Frankenstein.

I'm not even kidding. I never even grew up on the original movie, but when I finally sat down and watched it, I realized how much of an improvement it was to keep the monster quiet and entirely cut out the framing device so that Victor could whine the whole goddamn time.

>>3145324
>It just became much more story driven in a really bad way with this book.
I'll grant you that, and I didn't get why Wowbagger had to be a part of it, or why there's some mutant freak Vogon kid who is NICE, but I at least liked how they dealt with the Mostly Harmless ending. It was pretty much how I expected it.

Didn't expect the second head to be removed though, what the fuck...?

The History of Love.
Later I found out she plagiarized most of it, from her husbands book.

>>3149958
he straight up raped a crazy chick in that one.

>>3150065
I loved that book.

Seriously?

>>3150167
Bukowski raped trannys in his life, so it wa probably a man he was basing that off of then.

>>3150453
Please elaborate.

Tarantula by Bob Dylan

>>3150485
He slept with trannies. Do you really need to know more.

Love Wins by Rob Bell. Why did I bother?

Anthem. For fucks sake Ayn Rand is god awful, I hate that I was such an edgy faggot of an 8th grader.

Forever Free, the sequel to The Forever War.

Even as pulpy genre fiction it was bad. I wouldn't erase most of those years of reading shitty genre fiction (I liked to think I learned something about how not to write from them) but I still wish I could purge Forever Free from my memory.

Also, Under The Dome, is like below shit tier if I were bothering to rank King novels. Cheeseburger and french fries of literature, sure, but he should be ashamed of that garbage. I want my hours back.

the white queen

i forget who wrote it but its popular with middle aged women

Had to read this back in highschool.

It was just so fucking mind-numbingly boring.

I have no clue why anyone would consider it a classic.

And then the teacher made us watch the movie after we had read it. Jesus Christ, it was like a bunch of disinterested little kids reading lines from the book in monotone voices while standing in front of the camera looking stiff and awkward.

2001: space odyssey
I mean, seriosuly
Not just had I expected much more after watching the movie but the book is really boring
I started reading another book by arthur clarke but it's all so slow and the narrative so slopy, I quit after 20 pages.
I will never read anything from arthur clarke again

This unabashed piece of shit in 5th grade called "On My Honor."

>pic unrelated, I'd give it a 0.

A Game of Thrones

I felt like I was really forcing myself to finish, it felt like it was written by a 12 year old.

>>3150990
what's the matter, too stupid for grown up literature?

>>3140295
Yeah, it was shit. Don't let those pseudo intellectuals try to damn your view. It was garbage and Mark should be ashamed.

>>3151011
>game of thrones
>grown up literature

Someone help me find my sides.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
the "dont fuck with nature" theme is bullshit
victor is a fag
the monster is a fag
/b/ probably likes it because there is wincest

>>3151011
>GoT
>grown up
That one was so good that I have just thrown up

>>3146824
where are you going where have you been is a pretty good short story

>>3144602
FUCK, thought I was the only one who read that pile of shit. Worst book I ever invested in. Couldn't get past the third chapter due to the amazingly generic intro to the characters. Seriously felt like she played waaaayyy too much Chrono Cross.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

easily

>>3151018
>>3151028
You seem to be upset

A Happy Man by some European guy.

itt contrarians shit on everything

>>3151011
>grown up

>>3141508
didnt find hitchhikers guide funny at all, its just a bunch of lumpy jokes and an author going 'hurr hurr im doing silly things'. to be actually funny in a book you cant stamp your joke on the fucking readers face every time you get a cute idea in your cunty head

>>3140290
The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
>these 14thC priests were wrong about things
>i have literally no way of making this topical
>God

>>3140747
>fairly long
You might be an okay guy, but that doesn't mean you can walk around the workplace pissing on people's desks.

>>3151465

>>3145143
>Seriously, Fuck Mostly Harmless
I'm unhealthily agitated by the uppercase on that 'f'.

>>3151477
just pretend it's his new band name

>>3151481
I can dig that.

>>3146764
7deep15u

Brave New World.

The concept was good, but the writing itself was awful.

>>3152339
I agree. Most times when I tell people this they disagree, but it's a really awfully terribly written book and even though the ideas were fairly interesting I couldn't bear to read past half way through.

Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
I never regretted reading a book so much.

>>3152339
I liked it, but I think it's very imperfect. Huxley was aware of it : he said it wasn't philosophically complete.

I can't finish books I don't like. So since I never finish them cannot say.

my life is to short for crap.