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Anonymous Mon Sep 17 06:01:38 2018 No.11798214 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Books you hated that everyone else likes.

Let the shit flinging begin.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 06:02:50 2018 No.11798219 >>11798214 The greeks

Anonymous Mon Sep 17 06:03:20 2018 No.11798220
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meandering blur where characters just kind of wander between a few houses and then go to a countryside dacha and do a little more wandering around the park and also a little philosophical babbling and also the idiot is actually a smart dude but a little naïve and also a bitch gets killed DUDE CHRISTIANITY LMAO

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 06:04:07 2018 No.11798221 Picture of Dorian Gray.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 06:05:17 2018 No.11798223 File: 17 KB, 336x500, 1533727822225.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 06:08:59 2018 No.11798234 File: 36 KB, 267x400, 1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] > Moby Dick: Or The Whale as a Fish

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 06:14:14 2018 No.11798243 File: 473 KB, 1521x2310, 1533682043494.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i'm just gonna dab on the haters

Anonymous Mon Sep 17 07:32:28 2018 No.11798464

>>11798214
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Thought it was sorta trash, it's just nasty and cruel for the sake of being nasty and cruel. There was no real message.
It worked well as a book to an insight of some post-apocalypse, but even then it had flaws and illogical scenes.
It wasn't entirely realistic, and because of that, I don't know what he was aiming for. Again, there was nothing deeper about it other than some thrill novel with spooky death and stuff.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 07:33:30 2018 No.11798470 >>11798243 Heart of Darkness was book kino.

Anonymous Mon Sep 17 07:47:53 2018 No.11798509

>>11798464
> the relationship between father and son being the one slight beacon of hope
> the reflection that there's no real good guys because even the good guys make mistakes
> the beautiful sparse prose that reflects the sparse landscape

I'd have to re-read it sometime as I did enjoy it and I'm always unsure if I read the same book as the anons here who seem to strongly dislike the book. It's fine if you don't like it, of course, I just have to disagree.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 07:53:05 2018 No.11798519 File: 161 KB, 422x357, 1527322454168.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The sun also rises It's SOOO BORING that i would rather eat glass then read another sentence of it

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 07:54:38 2018 No.11798523 >>11798509 Ah, I'll acquiesce to what you've said about the father/son bond. I guess it was just too bleak for me. I also agree that it presented a grey area for "good guys" and whatnot. That I did notice and like for the book.

Anonymous Mon Sep 17 07:57:58 2018 No.11798533

The brothers Karamazov and the idiot were extremely boring serialised soap operas with half assed philosophical and theological discussions sprinkled in. Perfect for the pseuds.

All Aristotle books are boring as fuck but I won't hold it against him because what I'm reading is probably really far removed from how he would have communicated things. But then the pseuds should stop telling me to read him, just give me the summary.

Gravity's Rainbow is awful. It is the culmination of academia's envy of STEM / social sciences (or more generally, the end point of the loss of all of Arts and Humanities' academic departments authority over knowledge and wisdom). What an embarrassing mess, what a complete lack of anything to say. I stopped reading it during the second chapter.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 08:02:28 2018 No.11798546 >>11798523 Fair enough, my dude

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>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 08:04:02 2018 No.11798553 OMG I HATED Lord of the Flies!!! When everyone else was reading it id play on my phone lol

Anonymous Mon Sep 17 08:10:18 2018 No.11798575

I really hated Shakespeare in school and I always used to say he was shit up until I turned 22 and I picked up a complete collection on a whim for cheap.

I admit I do love his work now and I suppose that isn't quite what OP was asking for but there was a point where Shakespeare was my go-to guy to hate on and everyone else seemed to wonder why I'd dislike him so much, but over-analysis in school and constant reciting of specific sentences read aloud by kids who stop after every word fuck I hate it all over again already

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 08:11:32 2018 No.11798579 >>11798519 Yeah that was boring. Hemingway is very overrated

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 08:12:14 2018 No.11798584 >>11798553 baste & zoompilled

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 08:12:58 2018 No.11798588 >>11798214 I hate everything I've ever read by Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, Cervantes, Bolaño, Pynchon, Celine, Jünger, and Balzac.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 08:16:17 2018 No.11798601 >>11798588 fuck off Nabokov

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 08:17:07 2018 No.11798607 >>11798221 It really was a fucking chore of a book. >>11798533 >All Aristotle books I've owned Rhetoric for 2 years now and still haven't finished it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 08:17:08 2018 No.11798608 >>11798601 Nabby had poor taste in poetry

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 08:18:52 2018 No.11798614 >>11798608 Nabokov was just a bitter faggot, who knows what he actually liked

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 08:20:38 2018 No.11798618 >>11798614 I do. Shakespeare, Joyce, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Bergson, Kafka, Stevenson, Chekhov etc.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 08:21:11 2018 No.11798619 File: 43 KB, 315x475, 38500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Or anything else by Bukowski for that matter

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 08:21:21 2018 No.11798621 Metamorphosis Werther

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 08:25:31 2018 No.11798637 I don't hate Dostoyevsky but I do find his excessively dramatic dialogue to be a bit of a chore sometimes

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 08:34:02 2018 No.11798666 Everything I've read by Pynchon was incredibly overrated. On another note, Naked Lunch has the distinction of being the only book I didn't finish out of revulsion (over subject matter, the prose is quite good)

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 08:36:37 2018 No.11798677 >>11798214 Candide and The Stranger.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 08:37:41 2018 No.11798681 >>11798223 how dare you

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 09:26:03 2018 No.11798888 File: 110 KB, 800x1280, JaneDam.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11798619 Woman pleb detected. I bet you unironically enjoy Harry Potter. Yikes girly.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 10:01:38 2018 No.11799066 Ada.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 14:21:00 2018 No.11800255 >>11798214 Everything written by Dostoevsky.

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