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What did you read in 2018? Liked? Disliked? Best? Worst? Trends? etc.

>> No.12313128

2666 was my favorite book I read this year.
My two most hated books of 2018 are White Noise and The Master and Margarita. Finishing them was torture. Don DeLillo is a joke of an author. Master and Margarita was just painfully boring. The parts of the story with Yeshua were so boring they made me want to crucify myself.

>> No.12313139

Catcher in the Rye was a major disappointment and I didn't enjoy it very much. It would have been better without the pedophile incident and if Holden had killed himself at the end.
I enjoyed TBK, on the other hand.

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TBK best book read
I also really enjoyed Thomas Harris' Silence of the Lambs and The Red Dragon
SPQR and Jordan memerson's 12 rules had some interesting bits but were a slog
read 38 books total (3 missing from pic related)
in 2019 gonna step up the difficulty

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mainly read a lot of small books because low attention span. only big boi book was Buddenbrooks.

Overrated: Kawabata, Peterson, Moore, Zweig, Radiguet, Beckett, Mishima, Wodehouse, Wolfe, Bolano, Genet, Carr, Gass, Stein

Underrated: Colette, Steiner, LeGuin, Dick, Goffman, Connelly, Tolstoy, Larsen, Wilde, Woolf, Mann, Maupassant, Salter

>> No.12313389

>>12313116

Managed to read the first three volumes of In Search of Lost Time, those were some of my favourite books along with Zola's La Bête Humaine.