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Anonymous Sun Nov 12 04:06:24 2017 No.10258846 [Reply] [Original]

ITT books that are so bad you never bothered finishing

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 12 04:48:40 2017 No.10258897 my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 12 05:22:12 2017 No.10258943 >>10258846 Eros and Civilization is the only Marcuse i've read. Was a good read, in a degenerate sort of way.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 12 06:06:01 2017 No.10259004 >>10258846 The Glass Bead Game

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 12 07:22:11 2017 No.10259105 I cant do that. But then again, I was trained to be able to stand harsh readings. I dont have the patience I used to have when I was 14 and could read 200 pages in one day whilst understanding nothing, but I still can do it if I take extended breaks.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 12 08:45:15 2017 No.10259231 >>10258846 On the Road

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 12 10:17:21 2017 No.10259395 >>10258846 A Rebours by JK Huysmans.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 12 10:19:14 2017 No.10259399 >>10258846 Mr Mercedes

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 12 10:25:57 2017 No.10259409 >>10259395 You a p l e b

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 12 10:33:00 2017 No.10259419 >>10259399 Holy shit! I almost forgot I read that drivel, and I finished it, I would have enjoyed it if it had more incest and less muh diversity.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 12 10:35:49 2017 No.10259426 I read J R in two sittings but I gave up 40 pages into The Stand

Anonymous Sun Nov 12 11:04:46 2017 No.10259499
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Pic related. It was partly my fault for wanting to be 'well read.' Stephen king was the only writer that came to mind at that time and his books are everywhere. I wasn't all that bad; the scene where Junior kills whats-her-name and hides her in the shed was pretty hot. I think he jerked off to her corpse. The protagonist is just annoying and boring, so I dropped it. I might pick it up before the year runs out.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 12 11:27:47 2017 No.10259575 >>10259395 Turtlebrain.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 12 18:41:58 2017 No.10261096 bup

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 12 22:12:58 2017 No.10261853 >>10259105 You were trained to torture yourself and suppress your will? Was it your perfectionist mummy projecting her idealised ego on yourself? Asking for a friend

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 12 22:14:56 2017 No.10261869 >>10259395 curious, why?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 12 22:17:02 2017 No.10261879 >>10258897 there he goes again

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 12 22:18:04 2017 No.10261885 Jane Eyre

Anonymous Sun Nov 12 22:19:34 2017 No.10261895

>>10259499
>On the Road
Its amazing that name recognition can sell a book like this. This is one of the few books you could be totally justified in laughing at based on the title and cover art alone. It looks like the type of shit you would find in the Science Fiction section of a Barnes & Noble

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 12 22:20:36 2017 No.10261899 >>10261895 Quoted the wrong thing, meant Under the Dome Part 2 obviously

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 12 22:22:15 2017 No.10261904 >>10259231 This.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 13 00:37:43 2017 No.10262381 File: 122 KB, 604x1724, 1452216350441.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ready Player One. Couldnt finish the first chapter, and it looks like i didnt miss out on much

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 13 00:44:01 2017 No.10262403 Naked Lunch

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 13 04:21:04 2017 No.10262904 >>10259395 same It was unbearable. The prose didn't make up for the lack of interesting ideas. Interesting execution, bad novel. In a way like American Psycho

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 13 14:03:39 2017 No.10264443 >>10259004 yep

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 13 14:25:01 2017 No.10264513 >>10259004 t. brainlet

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 13 14:26:05 2017 No.10264522 File: 152 KB, 1399x2070, 710X8jmMvHL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this had the depth and profundity of a Black Mirror episode. fuck every middlebrow MFA pomo hack

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 13 15:52:34 2017 No.10264745 >>10262403 Junky

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 13 15:54:33 2017 No.10264756 File: 56 KB, 500x500, allt-square-1536.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10259231 For best results, audiobook while driving.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 13 15:56:24 2017 No.10264766 >>10262904 Anyone feel like defending this? It's top 3 on my reading list rn

Anonymous Mon Nov 13 16:13:32 2017 No.10264858

>>10264766

I found it incredibly inspirational, actually. Huysmans isn't exactly "fun" but the message of the book is that you really can't escape all that you hate about society and make yourself a hermit and not have it take a toll on your health.
Embrace all that you loathe.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 13 16:15:45 2017 No.10264866 >>10259499 I've tried to read multiple King novels. Dropped all of them. King is truly garbage and a hack. His attempts at psychoanalysis especially are hilarious and painful.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 00:53:58 2017 No.10266866 >>10258846 Slash's autobiography. An appallingly written masturbatory mess.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 00:56:08 2017 No.10266872 File: 13 KB, 210x320, 7107Y0VKCZL._AC_UL320_SR210,320_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just felt a little to edgy despite me connecting with it conceptually, got 80pgs in

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 01:06:03 2017 No.10266888 File: 54 KB, 289x443, 9780143036555B.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10258846

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 01:33:11 2017 No.10266955 Mason & Dixon. I got about 6 chapters in

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 01:39:12 2017 No.10266965 Orlando by Virginia Woolf, read 40 pages and noped the fuck out. I liked To The Lighthouse though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 01:42:42 2017 No.10266973 About to quit Look Homeward, Angel. 200 or so pages in.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 01:49:25 2017 No.10266988 Anything in this pitiful series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackford_Oakes

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 03:00:13 2017 No.10267175 Stephen King's "Pet Cemetary". Read 2/3 of it and it never really caught my attention.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 03:10:20 2017 No.10267190 >>10267175 you mean literally anything ever written by King

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 03:17:25 2017 No.10267202 >>10267190 Sure, only thing I ever read by him. Don't have any interest in starting on his other books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 11:49:30 2017 No.10268246 File: 164 KB, 800x1247, GR-PB-First-Front.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] One of the worst books I dropped

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 12:00:39 2017 No.10268288 To kill a mockingbird. Shit was so bad i couldn't finish the first chapter.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 15:44:01 2017 No.10269014 Stoner

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 15:45:35 2017 No.10269019 many victorian era novels

Anonymous Tue Nov 14 15:53:15 2017 No.10269049

>>10259499
I'm a long time reader of King and will be a lifelong fan. Some of his books are truly artful and rich, this is not one of them. Drop it and read something else. Even if it's some other King book, it's fine.

I finished Under the Dome, so I'm speaking from experience. Don't fucking bother. For real.

Anonymous Tue Nov 14 15:56:12 2017 No.10269062

>>10262381
Ready Player One is a strange combination of young adult genre writing but packed with referenced you have to be like 30+ years old to recognize or really care about.

I just treated every reference as random science fiction mumbo-jumbo like every other sci-fi book expects you to swallow and enjoyed it fine.

Anonymous Tue Nov 14 16:06:05 2017 No.10269094
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>>10267175
Pet Cemetery is one of his early spook books. Most of those are trash. The only lesson that is pushed by Pet Cemetery is "Regardless of how tragic or unfair someone's death is, accept it and let them go. Anything less is hell on earth."

The problem with King is that he's so goddamn prolific that one person can read only his spotty stuff (Dreamcatcher, The Dark Side) and someone else can read only his gold (The Gunslinger, Hearts in Atlantis, Black House), and everyone just assumes their experience is the same.

The guy has been writing non-stop his entire life. Of course he's gotten better over time and has changed his writing style. He's not a one-note hack who just churns out paychecks. A lot of his work is personal and inspired.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 16:08:36 2017 No.10269107 >>10258846 Kant's critique of pure reason

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 16:18:44 2017 No.10269147 >>10269107 this

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 16:19:21 2017 No.10269150 File: 562 KB, 840x455, zzz.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10258943 >>>/g/oebbelspile/

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 18:10:06 2017 No.10269524 >>10258897 I came here to post this!

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 18:14:25 2017 No.10269539 i don't finish about half the books i start. latest one for me was A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 18:20:13 2017 No.10269557 >>10259004 Lit hypes it up way too much but it is still pretty good and still should be considered Hesse's best novel.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 18:32:58 2017 No.10269589 >>10264522 pleb opinion new delillo is goat

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 22:32:47 2017 No.10270397 >>10259419 better less incest and less muh diversity and let the Brady win he had so much time to do it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 23:56:42 2017 No.10270591 >>10264866 I hate myself for wasting time on the 1300 page atrocity that is IT.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 15 00:33:38 2017 No.10270659 >>10266955 >>10268246 PYNCHED

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 15 00:41:03 2017 No.10270670 The Maze Runner

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 15 09:43:38 2017 No.10271654 To the Lighthouse was just too atrocious to continue. I got about 80 pages in and it felt like I had read nothing at all.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 15 09:45:35 2017 No.10271659 File: 174 KB, 600x976, MAAAAAAADE.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10266872 You did not even start the fucking novel Go read it you fag Goddamn it

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 15 10:52:45 2017 No.10271831 >>10258846 Full dark, no stars Stephen King is shit tier sometimes

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 15 17:42:36 2017 No.10273156 Lies of Locke Lamora Worst piece of trash I’ve ever bought. Literally the only book I’ve thrown in the garbage.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 15 18:01:12 2017 No.10273257 >>10269589 t. brainlet

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