/lit/ - Literature

>>7938553
sickness unto death.

the entire book was basically "muh feels." I just kept imagining him thinking to himself as he wrote... "they'll never guess that this hypothetical, desperate character is actually me, Soren! hehe."

A brave new world, what a boring, awful book with zero redeeming qualities

>>7938584
oh! i completely forgot that i started to read this. i agree, what a waste of paper.

I have a mirror in my bathroom, thanks.

>>7938625
Keeeek

The Savage Detectives. The 63% was 62% more than I ever needed to read.

War & War by Krasznahorkai

I really don't mind run-on sentences (I'm actually a fan of Thomas Bernhard whom Krasznahorkai seems to idolize and shamelessly pilfer from), but I couldn't stand the narrative tone, the themes or the characters of this book.
I've tried to get into Krasznahorkai multiple times and I've come to learn that I can't tolerate his mediocre prose and his penchant for the vulgar. It's a shame, since Bela Tarr's film adaptations of his novels are actually good.

HMMM the Mortal Instruments series, Game of Thrones, Critique of Pure Reason (for it's difficult, not because it sucks) and there's probably more that i can't really remember. I either stop because they suck or they are too difficult

Infinite Jest
Was thoroughly memed.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Never got into them as a kid and so decided to finally read them as a twentysomething because everyone my age still spouts on about them endlessly. Rowling isn't a bad writer, but I just couldn't get into it. Maybe I'll try again this summer.

Infinite Jest
House of Leaves
Great Expectations

I have a rule for myself when I read. If I give it a 100 page attempt and it's still not interesting, I drop it. These three all failed me in that rule.

I've read everything I've attempted but what I hated most was by far The Sun Also Rises. It was so unbelievably bland.

Pinochio when i was in a third grade xd

Mark twains connecticut yankee in king arthurs court.

The funny thing is the book made me laugh and was entertaining but it felt so outdated, and he kept bashing on the church and how uneducated they were hanging out with a bunch of peasants and knights who went questing all day. Way too much preaching for a simple time travelling book.

It got on my nerves and i stopped halfway.

>awful prose.

lmao. Pls OP, drop out of your cc already.

>>7938850
kant's writing is unbelievably belabored. i had to read it part and parcel.

>>7939296
maybe you should have lowed your expectations… but i too thought HoL was uninteresting. i want to like it, though.

>>7938553
Would have done so with Siddharta if I hadn't read it in ~30 minutes.

>>7938584
>>7938622
Island is even worse. BNW is one of the worst books I've ever read in my life though.

Oliver Twist

>>7938553
which translation are you reading? it makes a lot of difference with that book

>>7939463
This

>>7939493
Was pretty clearly intended for a teenaged audience though, so I can't hate too much on it. I probably would have liked it if I had read it at 13.

>>7938553
Blood Meridian
It was painfully dull and making me fall asleep as I read it.

>>7938584
Same, the hype around it is completely unwarranted but at least it's better than 1984. Seriously why do people fall for the edgy future government meme?

Anatomy Lesson - Pee Pee Roth
White Noise - DeLilo

>true patrician taste beyond current trends confirmed

Roth was particularly awful

The Last English King
>decent for the first half, great historical research on English society and structure as well as some nice bits from around Europe and the near east in the early medieval
>characters are interesting enough, Harold and William's dynamic is done well
>author starts inserting all this gay shit, including heavily descriptive homosexual relationship between Edward the Confessor and Tostig Godwinson
>think "alright at least its well written and not distasteful, I've got no problem with historical liberties for the sake of a good story"
>more gay shit with main character/narrator and his guide and homoerotic Edward-William relationship
>gay bits start become VERY descriptive
>mary sue Greek guide starts wanking off for chapters about how Muslims dindu nuffin and are the best ever while christianity is shit and and are pure evil and everything is better under islam
>gay paedophile Byzantine emperor

had to stop reading there, I usually hate to not finish a book but that was too much.

the Years of Rice and Salt
Jesus Christ I'm too big of a Rorke for that shit

>>7939520
Why would you read anything else by Roth? American Pastoral should have clued you in as to what to expect.

>>7939317
I enjoyed that when I was much younger, but now I think Twain is tediously fedora, even though I'm about as anti-religion as they come.

>>7939531
It was my first Roth, If I recall correctly I paid $2 for it

>>7938553
Dinesen's Winter Tales. So preachy! There was just something so patronizing, didactic, I don't know. I was expecting the ultimate comfy book for a winter evening, and it is in style, but there was something very aggravating underneath. I can't explain very well my visceral disdain for that book.

The Fountainhead

Got a free copy in 8th grade after writing an essay. It just kinda started to drag a bit about a third of the way through. Maybe some day I'll pick it back up, but for now, nah.