/lit/ - Literature

>Harry Potter series
gf at the time pressured me

havn't read anything that comes close to being as offensively bad as Potter

>>3434120
How about your post?

this thread brought to you by a 13 year old in his downtime from commenting on youtube videos about how justin bieber sucks

>Daring Do and the Jungle of Terror

"Parody" it is NOT! I was on my tablet with my daughter and downloaded it based off the cover and the My Little Ponies that my girls love so much only to open it and see very quickly from a quick scan of the page that it is pure SMUT. NOT KID APPROPRIATE. I immediately removed it from my sight and was super grateful there were no pics and that my daughter isn't far enough in her reading ability to have realized anything.

The Girl Who Leaped Though Time" I think.

I don't know if it was the translation or if he's just a bad writer.

It's one of my favorite movies, so it felt pretty depressing that the source material was much worse.

I'm afraid of reading his other book Paprika. Which is also one of my favorite movies.

The Appeal - John Grisham

Book club.

>Expecting YA fiction to be good
However, it still has its merits. That is, encouraging kids to read and write. This can only be a good thing.

For me, the worst book I've read was Kafka on the Shore. When lines of dialogue spoken by either Oshima or Kafka were displayed, it felt inorganic and needlessly verbose. Furthermore, I felt unable to connect with any of the characters, save for Nakata, whom I found endearing.

After reading the book, I stumbled upon a Q&A session that Murakami had published on his site. He recommended reading the book multiple times because the book is a riddle, comprised of other diminutive riddles which, when brought together, form a whole picture which enables one to understand the book on a deeper level - and yet each reader will arrive at a different conclusion. Here's the thing though: I just couldn't care.
And the ending left me feeling bereft. Just bereft. Of what? I'm still not sure. I remember throwing down the book in a fit of rage though.

>Stranger in a Strange Land

Well, it's supposed to be a sf classic. I knew it was going to be preachy, but not THAT preachy. I hate it when everything about the book is subjected to author shoving his views down my throat, whether I agree or disagree with him.

I don't know. Something by Raymond E. Feist, probably.

infinite jest until the girl in the psych ward. from then on it was the best I've read. I read it cus I hated it so much I had to read it so I did but now it's great, best book ever.

>>3434153
i thought that starship troopers was that kind of book.but i kinda enjoyed it...

>Flickan som lekte med elden, or The Girl Who Played with Fire.
Found it on one of those hotel maid carts in a hotel in Thailand, read about three quarters of it, didn't enjoy it at all, but atleast it was a neat coincidence that I found a Swedish edition of it.
I still have it in my bookshelf as a memento.

>>3434153
>I hate it when everything about the book is subjected to author shoving his views down my throat, whether I agree or disagree with him.
Oh God, never read The Iron Heel by Jack London. Put me off trying anything else of his.

The Catcher in the Rye.


I've never had such big hate for the main character.

>Naked Lunch

I read it because I really enjoyed "Junkie" and was reading a lot of beat work. It had enough acclaim that I figured I'd give it a shot to see what all the hubbub was about, and I figured that since I liked Burroughs' other work, it couldn't be bad.

Good lord was I wrong. What a ridiculous waste of time. It was like reading a paper written by a kid in the 4th grade who was just stringing profanities and explicit descriptions together in a childlike attempt to be controversial.

>>3434152
I read this recently and loved it. Different strokes i guess...

>>3434153
Couldn't finish it. Towards the end it read like a sci-fi nerds harem fantasy.

>>3434131
The three dildos on the cover weren't a give away for you, huh?

The Tyranny of the Night by Glen Cook

Complete horseshit.

>>3434120
Now that I'm more well read i can see the flaws in the books. Still love them cuz of nostalgia though.

The Red Badge of Courage

IDGAF what anyone says; it was a struggle just staying awake long enough to finish each page. That book was like literary NyQuil.

>>3434118
>The Redemption of Althalus
Because his Belgariad series had been a nice, light read
>1632
A co-worker recommended it to me. Painful.
>The Guns of the South
After complaining about how bad 1632 was a friend said Turtledove wrote good books. My friend lied.
>Space Giant
I lost a bet in HS
>The Stars My Destination
I keep being told it is a classic.
>Atlas Shrugged
to see what all the hullabaloo was about

Oh shit, OP, I feel you. I also read Twilight a couple of years back when I had no taste in literature and some female friends gave the series to me. I read it all through because I didn't really have anything better to do. It was surprisingly bland, but not so badly written that I had to put them down. Same with Harry Potter, though those were fun at times.
And fuck, >>3434181 too. I read that one in Swedish a few years back, and only later do I realize how utterly bad it was. I even read the sequels because I hate not finishing a book series.

Also

>The Prodigal Mage and other mage books or whatever the fuck they are called by Karen Miller

Fucking terrible, I want my time back.

>>3434120
Read them as a child and hated them then, but was forced to pretend that I liked them in order to survive socially. I thought that it meant I hated books so I stopped reading for 8 years and then discovered ACTUAL literature in my teens and saw what I was missing. Harry Potter set me back nearly a decade, son of a bitch.

Scarlet Letter.

High school

So the worst books are also the most popular?

Fucking academia man, I'm sayin. /lit/ loves philosophy that nobody cares about, poetry that nobody wants to read, and books that most people would rather be smacked in the face with than forced to actually crack their binding.

Is /lit/'s dream job to be a college professor that gets paid to teach material that's so bad that you actually have to hire somebody to force people to read it?

>>3434590
It makes perfect sense that the worst books we've read would be popular. Why would we have read terrible books that no one else recommended?

>yfw you realise OP has engaged, face-first, in all three of the last three plagues to hit /lit/.

>Beloved

I had to for class.

>>3434590
You might not be aware of this, but most popular entertainments are popular entertainments because they appeal to the lowest common denominator.

>>3434679
That's not to say all things unpopular are good as there are many bad unpopular books just that popular books are more densely bad or generally mediocre.

>>3434615
Is her eye okay?

>>3434702

Eye don't know

>>3434697
Depends on how you're determining the value.

>>3434697
No disagreement, there.

I'm just saying that it's not that popular books are bad because they're popular. It's that most popular books are popular because they're bad.

The public is not discerning; the public doesn't want to think. Ergo, they gravitate toward garbage.

>>3434152
>For me, the worst book I've read was Kafka on the Shore. When lines of dialogue spoken by either Oshima or Kafka were displayed, it felt inorganic and needlessly verbose. Furthermore, I felt unable to connect with any of the characters, save for Nakata, whom I found endearing.

Yeah, Kafka on the Shore is not Murakami's best IMO. I'm more fond of A Wild Sheep Chase, After Dark, Sputnik Sweetheart, etc.

I think that KoS brings up interesting ideas about what responsibility is, but, meh.

most of the books we had to read in highschool.

>Kite Runner
the fuck. why. was it so neccessary we had to read that garbage
>angela's ashes
wow, a book about being poor and irish

>the first couple chapters of Twilight
My girlfriend (in the early years of high school) was a fan and I wanted to understand it before judging it. Could not be fucked to finish more than the first few chapters.

>the third Hunger Games book
The first two (or, at least, the first one and a half) had some decent dystopian allegory for the modern condition, even if it was probably mostly plagiarized from other sources that did it better and then distilled into a "young adult literature" form. The third book just absolutely shit the fucking bed through and through, non-stop, right to the very last period.

>some book that had the word "Grrl" in it, possibly "Diary of a Riot Grrl"?
I was interested to see how a radical punk subculture could be turned into a work of literature aimed at would-be participants in said culture. The book was literally written in the form of a teenage girl's diary entries, which could have been interesting if any of it were remotely thoughtful or bore any relevance to anyone or used language above a 6th-grade level. The actual concept of a radical political movement/youth subculture was basically just a conversation piece for her and her newly-found punk friends, and a reason to shave half her head. I'm all for tales of youth empowerment but I really could not give a shit about anything this person was writing. The thing was maybe 100 pages at most, which may have been its only positive feature.

>>3434590

OP here, Battle Royale was fucking awesome, I'm sorry but it is

and I guess you are right, the most popular books I've ever read are also the worst

>>3434794
Oh, I forgot; I read the Hunger Games because my current girlfriend was a fan of the first one and the concept sounded interesting enough. Continued reading through the entire trilogy and regretted it immensely.

>>3434615

OP here, I know, I feel like my life is less valuable after reading those books

>Twilight
Never even touchd the books, the movies were hilarious to riff.
>Hunger Games
Didn't dare touching this wannabe BR, teenage actors are fucking annoying.
>50 Shades if Grey
I read some lines of the books, and I was scared away right away
>Harry Potter series
I liked them as a kid, I hate them now I''m an adult.
They're just fucking immature and stupid,

Things Fall Apart

High school

The Book of Negroes.

Had to read it for a class in high school. The only reason it was so long is because 50% of it is things like "He gave me five apples. I ate one apple. I put the rest in my satchel to be eaten later" that do nothing to help the unrealistic plot

>Only Revolutions - Mark Z Danielewski

Because of House of Leaves, one of my favourite postmodern books. OR was just horrible though. Just horrible. What the fucking hell. I've spoken to several people who claimed to enjoy the book (possibly mythomaniacs), and nobody could even tell me what the plot was about. They just started paraphrasing the blurb (poorly). What a horrible book.

Davinci Code
I stole it from a classmate's house, because she didn't give me my book back. I wish I didn't.

>>3434624
You must read some really fucking good books is Beloved was the worst one...

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
Was in jail for a four-month probation violation stint.
Read plenty.
Frankenstein, Don Quixote (the best) and way too many crime fiction novels that were around the cell block.
But out of all that bullshit, even the Christian propaganda; LOTR was absolutely the most boring thing I ever read - and this was in jail, where books are worth their weight in splooge.

>Turn of the Screw

For uni

>>3434938
made it halfway through "the Two cock towers of horror" and gave up.
Just read Don Quixote instead.

>People on 4chan being hipster
well it aint a first

>>3434943
>LOTR are the worst books you've read
You dont read much. do you?

>>3434131
My fucking sides.

Thank you for your failure.

Shoplifting. I really wanted to try it to see what people were talking about. Yes, worst book I've ever read, easily.

>>3434948
2spooky4u?

>Lord of the Rings

It was for reading practise. It's was utterly boring. However I've changed a lot since then so I might find them somewhat more tolerable now. Then again I also found the freaking movie trilogy boring.

>>3434794
I haven't read the book, but the genre/movement is called Riot Grrrl. I'm a big Bikini Kill fan, but I can understand how that book would be shitty. Punk makes for good music only.

>>3435047
m8 most of these books are disregarded by anyone with any shred of taste, with the exception of a few. Also, believe it or not, not everyone like's the same things.

>>3435420
Peter Jackson is a terrible director though. The movies were indeed shit.

>>3434702
>>3434615
It's a French avant-garde film, forgot the name. It's actually a pigs eye that is being cut.

>>3435439
Un chien andalou

Black Boy
I enjoy a lot of black lit and found Black Boy on sale-I'd been meaning to read Native Son, but figured it was close enough. Holy shit did I hate the main character. I mean Jesus Christ, he was a horrible person. Murdering kittens whilst on his pedestal

>Ctrl + F "The Old Man and"
>0 results

Come on.

>The Old Man and the Sea
Because it's considered a "modern classic"

It was terrible and it earned a fucking NOBEL PRIZE

>>3435464
>Implying a single book is responsible for a Nobel Prize award.

>>3435464
But it was good.

>>3435439
>>3435447
Un chien andalou. It's Spanish, by Dalí and Buñuel.

Dalí is actually in it, as one of the dudes being pulled by the ropes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb3Rk85lo

Also, it's a cow's eye.

>>3435497
>Un chien andalou
There's an old song that repeats that line too.

>>3435439
That movie is fundamental to modern cinematography. Fuck you for getting that it is The Andalusian Dog, or Un Chien Andalou

>>3435503
Ah. The Pixies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Phrwio-M

"Got me a movie
I want you to know
Slicing up eyeballs
I want you to know
Girlie so groovy
I want you to know
Don't know about you
But I am Un Chien Andalusia
Wanna grow
Up to be
Be a debaser"

>Left Behind

had too see what was poisoning so many minds

it was awful

Good Omens was a smelling piece of shit. Loathed it. People kept saying Neil Gaiman was a good writer and so I decided to try him again after Neverwhere (which was meh at most) thinking maybe I was missing his supposed greatness. Just awful.

The worst book I've ever read was "O Filho de Odin" (Odin's son in English) and thankfully that pile of garbage never made it out of Portugal. It was written by an irritating teenager (I was around his age) and reading such a disgraceful thing stopped me from writing for the pure thought that perhaps I was just awful as him. Though now in retrospective that abomination made me search for better books in order to learn something so as to avoid the complete assassination attempt at culture that was the case with that book.

>>3435511
>the complete assassination attempt at culture that was the case with that book.
9d4u

>>3434118
same OP same.. read the first 50 shades and half of the 2nd..my aunt kept encouraging me, couldn't do it.

>>3435492
For a normal book. I personally hated it. Average at best.

For a Nobel Prize? Nope.jpg

I keep reading sci-fi books in the hope that I'll discover the sci-fi world of my dreams. It'll never happen.

>>3434118
>50 Shades if Grey
>I don't really know what was I thinking
Seriously WTF were you thinking?

It's not even a "so bad it's fun to dissect" like Twilight.

>>3435610
>It's not even a "so bad it's fun to dissect" like Twilight.

IIRC, "50 Shades" began as a faggy, live-journal-esque, goth-chick's-wet-dreamTwilight fanfic, and the dumb broad changed the names and added some anal and raked in the millions.

>>3435597
>I keep reading sci-fi books in the hope that I'll discover the sci-fi world of my dreams. It'll never happen.
>It'll never happen.

Think again.

I think that's why some of these guys write the books. Maybe it's time you try.

The Hobbit.

Srs. I liked all of the other LoTR books but I hated the Hobbit. I only read it because I liked the other three.

>Only Revolutions

God dammit Danielewski I wanted to like it so badly but you made it too hard.

Eragon

My siblings loved it and despite my strong misgivings they convinced me to read it. I don't see how they managed to overlook how totally derivative that book was. Eragon is Star Wars by way of the The Lord of the Rings for fuck's sake, it's so obvious.

Also,

*Ardwen - Arwen
*Isenstar - Isengard
*Mithrim - Mithrim or mithril
*Angrenost - Angrenost
*Morgothal - Morgoth
*Elessari - Elessar
*Furnost - Fornost
*Hadarac Desert - Harad Desert
*Melian - Melian
*Vanilor - Valinor
*Eridor - Eriador
*Imiladris - Imladris
*Undin - Fundin/Udun
*Gil'ead - Gil'Galad
*Ceranthor - Caranthir
*Isidar - Isiludir
*Eragon - Aragorn

Oh and the Eragon magic system is lifted word for fucking word from A Wizard of Earthsea. Fuck Christopher Tortellini and his shitty LotR/Star Wars/Earthsea fanfiction, and fuck his wealthy doting parents for publishing it, instead of leaving it on fanfiction.net where it belonged.

>>3434152
Yeah it's nice when children who are struggling or reluctant readers can get hooked on a book or a series... but let's not insult the kids by saying that youth is an excuse for shitty books. It's like the difference between feeding your kids candy or vegetables.

>>3434590
>/lit/ loves philosophy that nobody cares about, poetry that nobody wants to read

yeah, agreed, this has been rustlin my jimmies erryday. too much philosophy crowding up these bookshelves

>>3435970
Philosophy just warrants more discussion than non-philosophical literature. Deal w/ it m8

>>3435975
I see your point, but I also think that philosophy is part of what informs how we create/discuss literature, even if it's not strictly or explicitly philosophical. So, in a way, there is less to say about a philosophical text that there is to say about one piece of lit from many perspectives.

Frankenstein
It was painfully boring i wanted to smack Mary Shelley with the book as i was reading.

>>3435990
Maybe, but not a lot of people are qualified to closely examine, analyze, and discuss literature beyond their own interpretation of a work while everyone can at least approach philosophy to some degree. Also personally I don't really like discussing lit since too many interpretations tend to dilute the experience.

It was required reading in 9th grade.
Awful story, ludicrous style, garbage "philosophy". Honestly one of the most pathetic attempts at fiction that I've ever read.

If they want us to start with babby's first philosophy, can't it be something good like Plato?

>>3435464
But that's a great book.
If you want Hemingway's shittiest work, try For Whom the Bell Tolls

Not the worst thing ever, but Ready Player One because so many of my friends were just raving over it. It's really cliche and assumes that the reader knows positively nothing about geek culture. Simple page turner adventure story that never went very deep. The ending did give me a sad though.

>>3436006
>required reading in 9th grade
Do you live in Texas or something?

yes i'm using this picture on purpose

>>3435970
Notice I said 'philosophy that nobody cares about', *not* 'philosophy, which nobody cares about'. I'm sure there's plenty of relevant and compelling philosophy out there, same with poetry.

>>3436038
I grew up in New York, actually.
To be fair, though, it was only part of my teacher's curriculum.
She was the worst teacher I ever had.

>>3436050
>philosophy that nobody cares about
What were you referring to?

>>3436004
haha, indeed, it is difficult to admit that someone else had a totally different but also totally valid experience with a novel.

>>3436050
ahh. dat comma placement

maybe I will just read it as, /lit/ loves *the* philosophy that *states that* nobody likes poetry.

>Hanif Kureishi's "The Black Album."
Had to read it for a class.

It wasn't that bad, but I haven't read many books that I didn't like. I never tackle stuff like Twilight or The Hunger Games just so I can "judge" them better; just like I don't need to eat a lukewarm pile of dog crap to know, for sure, that it tastes bad. Life is too short and there are too many good books in the world to waste time reading garbage.

In my opinion, OP is an autistic faggot for wasting his time reading Twilight, Hunger Games, and 50 SOG. One is forgivable, but all three? I bet he enjoyed every fucking minute of them.

Things Fall Apart

I really hate Achebe's writing in general

The Sound of Waves, by Mishima.

It was a bretty bointless reed :DDDD:D:D:DDDDDDDDD

>>3434599
Fair argument, except that it ignores the whole point of my post.

>>3436105
I have to agree with this. None of it seemed to be of any importance.

Also, what do you make of the boy getting stung by a wasp 3 times at like, 3 o'clock in the morning? I thought it was bizarre and, well, stupid.

>>3436127
Like, was there any point to the book? It really had no deep message (no matter how much my teacher claimed it did).

I

>>3436078
haha

You just reminded me of this short clip of Stephen Fry ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp-HYaX-k ) where he says, roughly:

>Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, someone might say "It's never good to be late. That's my philosophy." But it's odd how philosophers, generally speaking, don't have "a philosophy". There is no Socratic, Nietzschean, or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer "a philosophy" to follow.

And there are so many Philosophers who seem disinterested in basing their work on axioms, defining their terms, or producing work of potential practical value. Hopefully, in the future, philosophy might become more relevant to business and private life.

>>3436147
>implying a book needs a definite "message"

lrn 2 read for prose, foggot

>>3436198
>implying a book needs a definite "message"
A book doesn't 'need' a message, but it always, always has one. Usually the message is 'look at how smart an author I am, bitches. Gimme money'.

>lrn 2 read for prose, foggot
Reading for 'prose' is the lowest level of reading. It's what toddlers do.

100 años de soledad

>>3436162
>there is no Socratic way to live your life
>socrates's entire teaching is about virtue and how you live your life

Kant obviously has an extensive ethics. Nietzsche is always talking about how people live. What the hell, man.

>Twilight
I want it to judge it properly

Ok. I get this argument, I really do. But the thing is, reading is time intensive, and YOLO and all that good stuff. There are literally zillions of amazing books. So what, you choose to read what is probably shit just so you can speak about it with some authority? Ok. . . Thanks for taking one for the team.

> The Catcher in the Rye

Had to read for school. No idea why this is considered a classic.

>O Pioneers!

Had to read for school. Watching paint dry is more entertaining.

> Lovely Bones

Mom told me it was a good book. Should have known better than to trust the word of a woman that primarily reads Nora Roberts.

>>3436242
I gave Twilight a read too. With anything getting such mixed reviews I thought it would be worth having an opinion I could base on my own reading.
Generally I didn't hate the story. I recognized that it could have been engaging and fun to read. Never great literature, but in a better author's hands the story could have had potential. I think that's what's so sad about it. It's terribly written, but you can see a decent premise there.
For contrast, check Hunger Games. It's still pulpy summer reading, but it's engaging and decently written. Again, it's not great literature, but it's entertaining. And that is all I ask of my literature. I want it to entertain me. Twilight probably could have if it was written better.

>>3436254
>not liking the catcher in the rye

you're just a phony.

>>3436274

I mad, bro.

The Great Gatsby.

Fuck that book with a rake.

>>3436274
>>3436274
Boy, are you sore.

>>3436092

OP here, I actually liked how everyone treated the protagonist like a little stupid kid, that's what keept me going

Ham on Rye

Post Office

Women

>>3437322
i'm a girl btw

>>3437325
male here

she's right, Bukowski is shit. cry harder

>Anonymous Rex
Because the premise intrigued me and the promise of "interspecies sex" written in prominent red letters on the cover was just too much to resist.

What I got:
>awkward, bizarre sex between a woman and a dinosaur wearing a latex human suit (although I guess it could not have been anything other than awkward and bizarre)
>condombuildingcondombuildingcondouildingcondonbuilding
>basil addiction (uwotm8?)
>an aborted TV series featuring Daniel Baldwin

>>3437336
>Bukowski is shit.
0/10

>>3437325
Am I?

>>3437336
white knight faggot 2/10 would not fuck

>>3437379
The truth about Bukowski hurts, doesn't it?

>>3437392
>Bullkowski detected

>>3437396

>>3437377
>am I a girl, boys? am i? i won't tell but want you to think about this. boys? am i?

>>3437445
Or is it: am I a boy, girls?

>>3434794
>>3434804
I actually quite liked all 3 of the hunger games books. If you take out the retarded love story and the idiotic teenage girl fanbase, the trilogy had some good ideas

>>3435430
GO HAVE COMMON SENSE SOMEWHERE ELSE!

>>3434153

Agree completely. Also his characters would be perfectly at home in pulp garbage.

Looking for Alaska, followed by Paper Towns. Both by John Green.

I had been told by no less than 5 women and 3 male friends that John Green was ZOMG BEST AUTHOR and totally *got* teenagers right? And his books were so touching and thoughtful and meaningful!!!

WRONG. FUCKING. WRONG.
I have never read more one-dimensional characters in my life. He literally assigns each character a single trait which makes them interesting, there's even a part where the characters straight-up discuss what their One Thing is. It's wretched. Outside of that, it's sub-par semi-clever dialogue and shitty, shitty romance interspersed with 9th grade philosophy. Listen, Green: If the main character falls in love with a girl, she needs to be more than, "is a bitch for no reason and is hot." In fact, I don't think you're allowed to make someone a bitch for NO reason. Can we at least have some coherent motivations? Your characters just do things, with no regards to why they would actually want to do them. Your protagonist has less characterization than your most auxiliary characters. This is a problem.

Fuck I hate these books.

> Ready Player One

Immature, poorly written, boring.

> "Poseur? Penis-ville is calling me a poseur?"
> “That’s right, I called you a poseur, poseur.” I stood and got up in his grille.

> I GOT UP IN HIS GRILLE

mfw

>>3437896
Hurricanes, rain, and drizzles.

World War Z. It was wierd because I was really excited while reading and blazed through it and the day after I thought it was shit.

>>3437896
I hate how he speaks.

>>3437933

Hold on, allow me to teeth gnash privately for a moment in agony over how clever John Green believes he is. These books are full of these trite little sayings like this, and it really seems like they're inserted as an attempt at poignancy, minus the effort. It's much easier to sound profound than to be profound.
I tried to read A Fault In Our Stars, too, because I was told it was a much better effort, and really changed things up.

Nope. This time, their quirk is, "has fucking cancer." Goddamn. Every character is the same self-impressed smartass, and they react in boring ways. I mean honestly, he just pasted "has cancer" at a trait on top of the exact same character template from every other book. Okay, I think I'm done now. I feel less furious, at least.

>>3437896
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHMYvZ8tM
this guy is really odd.

also, top comment.
"It really annoys me when people are condescending towards teenagers. I am 13, and I love reading. I love George Orwell, the Bronte sisters, John Green, Harper Lee, J.D. Salinger. I love authors that write good books. Yet people seem to think that teenagers are vapid vessels that are exceedingly easily influenced and can't understand anything. I first read The Catcher In The Rye when I was about 9, and I adored it. I didn't, however, take that the book was promoting every practise in it."
aheheh

>>3434181
I like this book.

So far it's the "Eye of the world" by Robert Jordan for me. Really don't like too much abrakadabra.

>>3434118
are we the same person?

>>3436237
Yeah, I don't know. That part seemed suspect, but I agree with his basic thesis. I dislike the common usage of the word philosophy (e.g. 'my philosophy is...').

>>3435561
>my aunt kept encouraging me
>aunt kept encouraging me
>aunt encouraging me

>>3438006
That comment upset me more than it should have

>>3440017
Yeah, and everyone else on this board. So unique!

The Anita Blake novels.

The sad part is that I really liked the first few. And then Anita Blake turned into a huge slut bitch for no good reason.

>Ender's Game
Part of English course in gymnasium

>>3435504
nigger this might be THE most famous movie scene of the last century. oh god how i hate you film-plebeians

>>3436006

but you realise that Plate is tough as nails to comprehend?

>>3436162

Are you mentally disabled?

This might be the worst post I have ever seen on 4chan. I'm not even kidding...

>>3436078
I still find that interpretation of Plato hilarious.

>>3440651
Oddly, Fry did do a very good philosophy Radio 4 program, but it was mostly him asking a question and shutting up.

What's with all the YA hate in this thread? It's a genre that has some real gems if you're willing to pick through the muck. 'The Night Circus' for example, and some of John Greene's stuff. Read 'If I Stay", and just try to hate it. I dare you.

>>3434204
2deep4u

>>3440658
its not even the fry part... the "more relevant to business and private life" t
just bothers me

All this hate for Catcher in the Rye makes me sad. To answer OP's question, I read the first Hunger Games to see what all the hype was about. Terrible book.

>>3440694
I tried Reading the Fault in Our Stars. I couldn't get through it. The main girl character was an annoying fuck. Can't even remember her name.

>>3440729
*reading The Fault in Our Stars.
Fucking hell.

>>3440729
I haven't read it. But I liked Paper Towns.

>>3438006
>mfw he has to literally include a jump.cut every 10 seconds because his audience has such a small attention span.