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Anonymous Sat Apr 13 03:25:20 2019 No.12926980 [Reply] [Original]

What's the worst book you've read?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 04:45:31 2019 No.12927129 File: 115 KB, 530x800, Scarlet-Letter.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12926980 What was so bad about it, OP. I don't know what book I hate the most but here is one of them.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 05:20:15 2019 No.12927207 >>12926980 philosophy in the boudoir

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 05:21:30 2019 No.12927208 Simulacra and Simulation

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 05:22:30 2019 No.12927209 File: 19 KB, 203x300, Time_Enough_For_Love_73.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Time enough for love, that was some smut without sumt just terrible writing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 05:25:51 2019 No.12927217 >>12927207 it's not the worst, but i dislike it for overuse of swearwords like cunt. 2bh the puritan-esque euphemisms suite his style much better.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 05:27:35 2019 No.12927221 >>12927129 >he doesn’t like Hawthorne Shame

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 05:30:23 2019 No.12927224 >>12926980 A Magic the Gathering novel and a Warhammer 40k novel. I didn't read all of them, just samples out of morbid curiosity.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 05:41:19 2019 No.12927242 File: 26 KB, 278x450, 9780553213423.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Fuck this rag, what an absolute bore it is

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 05:47:21 2019 No.12927252 One of those 2010s cheap short horror novellas for 11 year olds who don't typically read, you know, the ones where skim reading it and reading it at a normal pace produces the exact same feeling. Can't remember what it was called.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 05:55:40 2019 No.12927270 The Corrections

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 06:16:55 2019 No.12927315 >>12927221 Yeah, Hawthorne was an amazing writer. I really love his short stories

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 10:09:03 2019 No.12927979 >>12927315 Agreed-- The Birthmark and Wives of the Dead are two of my favorites. >>12926980 The worst book I ever read is easily Naked Lunch

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 10:15:48 2019 No.12928003 >>12926980 Just curious can you explain why you didn't like The Exorcist OP? I was considering reading it

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:39:45 2019 No.12928722 >>12926980 Slaughter house 5 and Fahrenheit 451

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:54:43 2019 No.12928777 Worst popular book World War Z

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:58:49 2019 No.12928794 >>12926980 The Exorcist isn't that bad OP. it's not high literature but it's entertaining enough and the conversation scenes between Karras and the Demon are pretty kino.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:59:29 2019 No.12928800 The ones I've written

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 14:01:30 2019 No.12928804 Anthem by Ayn Rand

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 14:09:28 2019 No.12928827 The Kite Runner seriously a ginger nazi iranian who rapes little boys in afghanistan, that's your story?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 14:09:29 2019 No.12928828 Station Eleven

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 14:23:04 2019 No.12928886 Sula by Toni Morrison

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 14:25:41 2019 No.12928903 Walden. There's nothing momentously profound about transcribing intuition.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 14:50:02 2019 No.12929006 Unfortunately I like to hateread people I disagree with, so there are too many to pick just one. Most recently 'The Surrendered Wife' & the Quiverfull book

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 17:27:34 2019 No.12929589 >>12926980 The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry. friend pretty much begged me to read it, read a couple chapters and thought it was total garbage.