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ITT: worst book you've ever read Anonymous Tue Jan 29 21:50:10 2019 No.12501557 [Reply] [Original]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 29 21:52:18 2019 No.12501566 File: 20 KB, 262x400, ADF2A37E-8C06-4385-BC98-31785C3EFDC2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pic very related

Anonymous Tue Jan 29 21:54:11 2019 No.12501579
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Pic related. The first six were passably good, and then this one took a massive shit on everything that the previous books did well. Plus it had the laziest, most self-fellating ending I've ever read.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 29 21:56:46 2019 No.12501587 Probably Houellebecq's new novel

Anonymous Tue Jan 29 21:57:59 2019 No.12501593

>>12501557
I wholeheartedly agree with the "Very Short Introduction" series being absolute trash. I had a professor in college require one as textbook for class (among many others of similar "quality"). I think that one was the only book i ever purposefully destroyed after reading.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 29 22:07:06 2019 No.12501629 >>12501593 which one was it? i had to read one for a literary theory class and it wasnt that bad.

Anonymous Tue Jan 29 22:07:07 2019 No.12501630
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This fuckin book was awful. I have no idea why I finished it.

>>12501593
It depends entirely on the subject some are better then others. The VSI to Post-Structuralism was pretty damn good imo. Explained everything I needed to know for Derrida in less then 150 pages.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 29 22:09:04 2019 No.12501640 File: 265 KB, 1302x2083, 81T7nrF97KL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12501557

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 29 22:10:43 2019 No.12501649 >>12501640 Was it really that bad? It has some pretty solid sounding reviews and I was gonna start it like this week. Have you read any other Argentine authors?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 29 22:11:21 2019 No.12501652 >>12501557 Things Fall Apart

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 29 22:14:41 2019 No.12501664 File: 40 KB, 265x400, 61ybO4ucZvL._AC_SY400_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just awful.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 29 22:17:56 2019 No.12501676 File: 125 KB, 444x562, JoyceUlysses2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12501557 Anyone saying otherwise is a fucking brainlet.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 29 22:19:01 2019 No.12501679 >>12501557 I thought that was EoE for a second

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 29 22:19:34 2019 No.12501684 File: 28 KB, 332x499, deltaofuranus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I enjoyed some of it but only cuz it made my pee pee feel good Am I missing something? Where is the literary value in this?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 29 22:35:53 2019 No.12501753 >>12501676 I'm brainlet

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 29 22:39:37 2019 No.12501767 >>12501579 What would've been a satisfying ending in your opinion anon? I don't know if you read the series in rapid succession, but it take him over 30 years to complete it, which may account for the ending being the way it was.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 29 22:39:46 2019 No.12501770 >>12501753 At least you admit it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 29 22:40:52 2019 No.12501775 >>12501652 Why?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 29 22:46:53 2019 No.12501798 >>12501557 lol, i got the buhddist ethics one at a library sale for like 10 cents. I wonder if it's any better

Anonymous Tue Jan 29 23:11:50 2019 No.12501915

>>12501767
The whole world should have been a post-apocalyptic version of Earth. That's what it seemed like in the earlier books with stuff from Earth like a Nazi plane and Jesus existing, and it felt lazy for King to just explain it as his in-book self writing those into the world through his consciousness. As for the ending itself, the Crimson King was just ridiculous, and so was the artist who drew him and then erased him. Neither should have been in there. The Tower itself should have had more meaning to Roland. There are a few ways King could have achieved this but something that either let him talk to his dead friends would have been good. Basically any ending that gave the Tower meaning would have been good. As it is, Roland has traveled to the Tower over and over again for god knows how many cycles, only for it to ultimately mean nothing. Going into it I knew how long it took him to write and it's pretty clear that up until the end he didn't know what the Tower actually was, and the cyclical ending just felt like a lazy cop-out since he didn't feel like coming up with a better ending.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 29 23:17:22 2019 No.12501936 >>12501630 Post structuralism or post-modernism? apologies brainlet here

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 29 23:19:01 2019 No.12501941 >>12501649 Not that anon, but it's good. Just don't get spoiled cause it relies pretty heavily on the twist at the end. So skip the intro I guess.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 29 23:21:05 2019 No.12501947 File: 24 KB, 250x382, class.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I really can't believe I was able to even finish this gem

Anonymous Wed Jan 30 01:54:23 2019 No.12502605

>>12501915
I feel like by the end, King just wanted it to be done and by that time, he had already made it so meta, and included the parallel world stuff, that I guess he figured that any other straightforward ending would be underwhelming, which I think he did admit to in the author's note before the final chapter. I dunno, I was glad he finally finished the fucking thing, since I jumped into the series as a teen when it was only on book 3, and wasn't sure if it was ever gonna be finished.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 02:15:46 2019 No.12502667 >>12501593 I literally shot the communism manifesto. Call me an edgelord but even marxists are embarrassed by that trash.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 02:18:56 2019 No.12502680 >>12502667 The Book of The Law was worse though. also, The Wasp Factory sucked

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 02:23:42 2019 No.12502693 >>12501566 Why

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 02:30:36 2019 No.12502708 Ayn Rand All i've read of her

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 02:36:10 2019 No.12502727 File: 22 KB, 260x338, 5D05D934-E429-4ED6-8931-0ABBE14B01C5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12501557

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 03:26:40 2019 No.12502830 File: 29 KB, 467x720, blood-meridian-or-the-evening-redness-in-the-west-cormac-mccarthy-9780679728757.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What a boring load of crap.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 09:00:31 2019 No.12503561 >>12501664 found plebbit

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 09:04:29 2019 No.12503568 >>12502830 Pseud

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 09:18:54 2019 No.12503619 File: 69 KB, 502x753, 502x.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Brazilian romanticism is SHIT. O Cortiço is a close second. Another entry into the long catalog of favela porn for bored and moralizing middle-class midwits.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 09:19:57 2019 No.12503622 File: 44 KB, 400x623, A-Moreninha.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12503619 meant to post this

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 09:21:34 2019 No.12503630 File: 47 KB, 223x351, Rye_catcher.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12501557 Only reason this book is famous is because of John Lennon

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 09:23:39 2019 No.12503639 >>12502727 He got a lot right though

Anonymous Wed Jan 30 09:24:19 2019 No.12503640
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>>12501557
You make me happy OP, since someone I dislike recommended Blackburn's Ethics to me. Good thing I didn't mind.

Pic related, I couldn't read the whole first page and started to wonder who was the retarded kid who translated the novel. Sentences were terrible indeed. Then I realized it was the author's native language.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 09:24:44 2019 No.12503643 File: 19 KB, 220x293, wao.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 09:26:01 2019 No.12503645 File: 33 KB, 229x320, The-Stranger-Cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >dude nothing matters lmao

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 09:26:42 2019 No.12503652 File: 78 KB, 697x683, coffee.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Atlas Shrugged

Anonymous Wed Jan 30 09:27:11 2019 No.12503653

>>12501640
>>12501649
Not that anon either, but I could have said Invention of Morel too. The only other argentinian book I read (apart from some Borges but that was too long ago) was The Tunnel by Sabato, which I found significantly better (though not a masterpiece).
It's true that the Invention of Morel has good reviews and you should probably read it anyway to make up your mind. It's not long at all.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 09:30:28 2019 No.12503665 File: 6 KB, 205x222, 1506809608729.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12503619 >being anally raped dry by a little kid on the beach >brazilian romanticism

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 09:33:32 2019 No.12503679 >>12502727 If this was posted by a leftist that thinks this triggers Capitalists you should probably know Marx actually was deeply influenced by this book and others of Smith. He literally lays out Communism as a hypothetical in Specialisation.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 09:37:39 2019 No.12503699 >>12502830 inb4 a bunch of seething Mccucks complain

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 09:44:52 2019 No.12503722 The road

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 09:48:33 2019 No.12503729 >>12502640 >Gripping... a genuine page-turner What could possibly have gone wrong?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 09:51:56 2019 No.12503737 File: 247 KB, 1081x1737, 71FxgtFKcQL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I thought there was a trial in this book but it's just a bunch of retarded kids playing pretend

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 10:26:39 2019 No.12503865 >>12502640 Are you my boomer mom?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 10:36:06 2019 No.12503898 The worst ones I remember reading are Ready Player One, Cloud Atlas, and Pilgrim's Progress.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 30 10:41:21 2019 No.12503913 File: 39 KB, 333x500, 95EBC71C-C3B4-470A-A973-505051B64073.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Forced to read this for university. Surprise surprise

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