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Post works you started but were you weren't able to finish, whether it's because it was garbage or you lost it or whatever else

I had my finger on the trigger from page 1 but by the time the narrator started conversing with his school-shooter reddit son, death would be a far more agreeable fate than would be allowing one more word through my eyes into my mind

>> No.11530450

>"I thought it was forceful and impressive ... There's something about German names, the German language, German things. I don't know what it is exactly. It's just there. In the middle of it all is Hitler, of course."

At this point I could almost hear the seinfeld bass playing in the distance. You're right, it's shit.

>> No.11530472

>>11530442
What's the synopsis ?

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>>11530442

>> No.11530492

>>11530472
I only got 30 or so pages in (if that), and I don't wanna sound like a faggot, but the prose literally makes me cringe.

I don't see how this author could even be capable of writing a masterpiece as Harold Bloom says he has: McCarthy and Roth were never this bad

>> No.11530567

>>11530492
Roth is infinitely worse than DeLillo, and I even agree that DeLillo is overrated. Roth is a jewish perv though, not a writer, not in the discussion.

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>the zany adventures of hipsters and art hoes
wow this might as well have been set in the 2010's, Gaddis you fucking hack

>> No.11530576

>>11530567
go away

>> No.11530597

>>11530576
No, you.

>> No.11530623

>>11530450
Oh this book is a ylyl, I'm gunna pick it up

>> No.11530632

ITT: pleb central

>> No.11530639

>>11530575
fuck off

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>>11530442
My diary desu

>> No.11530653

>couldn't finish
weak ass faggot, better to give up then keep on trying to dig in and work on it right?
kys faggot

>> No.11530675

>>11530653
Why would I? It's abundantly clear that the book is shit, I would rather read some YA fantasy bullshit prose than this horse shit

>> No.11530680

>>11530623
teh absolute state of amerilard comedy

>> No.11530719

>>11530675
fucking excuse not to do shit, go back to your big bang theory shit then

>> No.11531064

>>11530450
i stop reading any time i hit a "there's something about"

>> No.11531085

That Kundera book about the brevity of being or some shit like that. It's like the Camus book about the apathetic autist but worse.
Also Proust's mega long book. The translator might've had something to do with it thk because I refuse to believe such a pedantic, pompous wreck of a writer is considered a classic.
Also Ulysses, I'm waiting until I'm a 40yo cult, well read postmodern boomer to continue reading that.

>> No.11531164

I'm reading Against the Day right now and I'm 1/3 in, not sure I can finish it. Sometimes it's absolutely brilliant, but mostly I just don't feel it, can't make myself read more of it

>> No.11531170

i only got 100 pages into the tunnel by gas and i feel like i got memed by that one guy
i do want to finish it some day but it's on the backburner

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>>11531085
>Also Proust's mega long book. The translator might've had something to do with it thk because I refuse to believe such a pedantic, pompous wreck of a writer is considered a classic.
Proust is extremely overrated and his acclaim can be mostly chalked up to jewish ethnic nepotism and the early payoffs he made that snowballed as jews gained more power over our publishing industry.

>> No.11531260

>>11530442
The invisible mam
Gave me fucking headache trying to decipher if there existed a world outside this one man and it wasn't a case of introverted solipsism, he never interacted with other characters on his own accord but rather they came to him showing he was just a person in someone elses story

>> No.11531263

>>11531260
Man*

>> No.11531284

Ethan Frome and Jude the Obscure are incredibly boring and sad.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Maya Angelou can't write, but I dropped it when she went into an insane amount of detail about how her stepdad sexually abused her. Thank God for Sparknotes.

>> No.11531298

>>11530575
come on, I know that it's 500k words and finishing it is no walk in the park, but it's /lit/core, you can't just come here and criticize it.

>> No.11531320

I have twice attempted to read Pale Fire and it became endlessly dull medieval circlejerk with little substance both times. I managed to read Ulysses, sure, there was something mind blowing in Ulysses every 20 paged and you could check some sources to better grasp the dense stuff. Infinite Jest was fascinating to me, I only became annoyed once or twice during the mega slow description-heavy Ennet House bits. But Pale Fire? There was nothing in there other than the construction gimmick.