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Anonymous Sat Jan 20 11:46:47 2018 No.10564422 [Reply] [Original]

Post a book that is well received by many but you personally hate

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 12:05:02 2018 No.10564491 File: 29 KB, 299x400, works.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 14:41:20 2018 No.10565054 The bible

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 18:26:23 2018 No.10566030 Edgar Allan Poo

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 18:29:09 2018 No.10566038 Kafka is the only one in the canon I don't see the love for.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 18:31:17 2018 No.10566050 >>10564491 Best reply this thread will get

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 18:34:28 2018 No.10566059 >>10564422 >every shade of gray book Now with that out of the way, I don't like Haruki Murakami.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 18:35:33 2018 No.10566068 >>10564422 >i had catcher in da rye retard pussy

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 18:36:02 2018 No.10566071 Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 18:37:18 2018 No.10566076 The only people who hate Catcher in the Rye hate it because it hits way too close to home for them.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 18:40:11 2018 No.10566096 File: 43 KB, 200x321, EB8722AF-2EDF-497D-8AFF-D1B9429D7725.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Read it in high school. I was shocked to find out how people heaped praise on it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 18:42:57 2018 No.10566105 >>10566076 they hate it because they hate rebllious male energy especially justifiably disenfranchised young men of status who have been abused and neglected

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 18:46:00 2018 No.10566114 >>10566076 No, they are soylent males and women who complain that Holden is sooo whiny and don't realize that you don't have to relate to the main character to appreciate a book because they were raised on Marvel superheroes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 18:47:45 2018 No.10566123 File: 311 KB, 864x1377, 813lWptJn3L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this is the most psued shit ever. fucking wince every time "grok" is used nowadays.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 18:53:27 2018 No.10566155 >>10566114 Holy shit the marvel hero bullshit is literally killing the comic industry and now it's eeking its way into most other forms of media.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 19:01:28 2018 No.10566191 >>10566114 >who complain that Holden is sooo whiny I never understood this, or the claim that Holden is an asshole. Holden came off as very genuine and kind, and I struggle to think of a single time he could be considered whiny.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 19:04:06 2018 No.10566201 >>10566076 They hate it because they were made to read it in highschool english

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 20:04:38 2018 No.10566471 >>10564422 Dubliners

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 20:06:37 2018 No.10566486 Candide.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 20:19:21 2018 No.10566523 The Tunnel

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 20:50:14 2018 No.10566629 >>10566191 Holden is just a traumatized lost boy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 23:02:03 2018 No.10567034 File: 1.23 MB, 1080x1920, Screenshot_20171210-203829.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10564422 Master and Margarita

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 23:02:52 2018 No.10567035 Anything by H.P. Lovecraft aka Huge Phaggot Lovescock

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 23:05:57 2018 No.10567040 >>10566096 Why didn't you like it? I have a PDF and I was considering reading it next >>10564422 Everything by Zola.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 23:18:11 2018 No.10567070 >>10567040 It hasn’t aged well. The sci-if elements are really tedious and the feminist aspect feels so hamfisted. I’m not into sci-fi though so your experience with it may differ.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 23:20:16 2018 No.10567082 All of Tolkien's works.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 23:27:26 2018 No.10567102 >>10566486 Candide was pretty bad. I have two: Naked Lunch and Portrait of an Artist...

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 23:30:27 2018 No.10567114 File: 65 KB, 369x604, DE1F7FAF-984D-45FF-9075-37F828A41C63.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10566123 I agree, it was dumb.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 23:31:49 2018 No.10567119 If we directed more hatred toward books we don't like and less toward each other this board would be a beautiful place.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 00:09:50 2018 No.10567233 >>10566038 I kinda liked the metamorphosis but Im finding the trial extremely dull. Kafka is definetly not for me but I fail to see whats so good about him anyways.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 06:03:38 2018 No.10568055 >>10567119 Nigger

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 08:54:13 2018 No.10568317 File: 31 KB, 485x443, 1499940656914.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10564422 >I had cadger in da rye!!! the main character is too annoyign!!!!

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 09:08:36 2018 No.10568355 >>10566076 >>10566105 I don't think this is the case at all People who find Holden "annoying" do so because he is too honest and sincere They are the irony lovers who find these traits cloying and would never identify with such a character

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 11:31:35 2018 No.10568907 >>10564422 Why?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 14:58:30 2018 No.10569821 File: 75 KB, 510x680, the-count-of-monte-cristo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10564422

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 14:59:39 2018 No.10569828 >>10564422 One hundreds years of solitude

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 15:08:15 2018 No.10569863 >>10567233 you have to read him in german, trust me

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 15:09:38 2018 No.10569871 >>10566096 why? because it didn't have evil aliens and lasers? this is legitimately one of the best utopian novels ever written.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 15:10:23 2018 No.10569878 File: 439 KB, 1280x1982, 81hSJtPKgcL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10564422 threw this piece of garbage in the trash and soon as i was done reading it

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 15:47:38 2018 No.10570068 >>10569821 Gankutsuou was better

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 15:50:37 2018 No.10570084 Madman Ovary

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 18:04:26 2018 No.10570714 >>10564422 Me too, bro. That fucking kid

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 18:10:24 2018 No.10570737 >>10569871 wow one of the best utopian novels ever written what tough competition

Anonymous Sun Jan 21 19:33:00 2018 No.10570989
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>>10566123
>>10567114
*invents the waterbed*

heh nothin' personnel. also considering his comments on the book its possible he wrote it to make fun of the hippie bullshit of his day, not support it

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 19:34:03 2018 No.10570992 >>10570989 He looks like he's trying to make her head explode like that one scene from Scanners.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 20:33:26 2018 No.10571234 >>10564422 Ulysses Gravity’s Rainbow Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 00:02:38 2018 No.10572012 >>10566208 agreed. Easily one of the most overrated books in history

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 00:04:49 2018 No.10572023 File: 302 KB, 1143x949, bible.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 07:32:59 2018 No.10573215 >>10567119 Really makes me think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp-rIfsoCoU

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 08:26:30 2018 No.10573369 >>10564422 I read it back when I was 13 and I could really connect with it back then. I really don't get why people hate this book so much.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 08:28:28 2018 No.10573373 >>10564491 This. Jibble Jabble nonsense old English with boring plots. The only reason this charlatan is famous is because he was deep in the royal ass.

Anonymous Mon Jan 22 09:36:31 2018 No.10573517

>>10567102
Man that chapter in portrait where he's standing on the rock and finally seeing the beauty of the earth for himself and is finally liberated from the church, literally brought me to tears. It's a shame you don't like the book, maybe you have to relate to stephen...

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 10:07:34 2018 No.10573582 The Scarlet Letter. Just didn't like it. Felt sentimental and awkward in an invirile and old-romantic way, like if a bad Wordsworth knock-off tried writing a novel. Probably has to do with Hawthorne being an impotent momma's boy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 12:38:34 2018 No.10573922 >>10566059 >Shades of Grey >Well received Uhh ok >>10566076 That killed me

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 12:40:44 2018 No.10573938 I can't see how anyone could enjoy reading The Tunnel

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 12:50:26 2018 No.10573979 >>10564422 You posted it already

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 12:51:50 2018 No.10573986 >>10566123 >fucking wince every time "grok" is used nowadays. And how often does that happen?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 12:57:05 2018 No.10573999 The unbearable lightness of being is literally unbearable. Pure trash

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 13:07:29 2018 No.10574024 The Harry Potter books

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 13:08:53 2018 No.10574026 >>10564491 Shakespeare may be overrated but he's not shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 13:14:46 2018 No.10574043 >>10568317 What is the point of posts like this

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 13:18:27 2018 No.10574056 Lolita fucking sucked.

Anonymous Mon Jan 22 13:25:44 2018 No.10574070

>>10564422
Wuthering Heights.

I respect it as a major development in the romantic novel, but almost everyone is an unlikable POS, which makes the moments where we’re supposed to sympathise with them fall flat. Also, the gothic elements are lacklustre and underwhelming.

It fails as both a romantic and a gothic novel, and the 2nd half being slightly better than the 1st doesn’t save it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 16:46:12 2018 No.10574579 >>10566076 They hate it because they're phonies

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 16:47:45 2018 No.10574585 >>10566114 >No, they are soylent males and women who complain that Holden is sooo whiny As if those bitches and faggots wouldn't be whiny too if some dago teacher were molesting them

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 16:50:27 2018 No.10574592 >>10568355 Holden is honest and sincere, but he is also losing his mind and confused. As a result you have to look the text over a couple times to deduce what is actually going on compared to Holden's stream of narrative.

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