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i'll start

>> No.20733956

I read some Robert coover and it was pretty lame, I think the guy has some cool ideas but it’s not worth reading his novels

>> No.20734171

>>20733951
The entire Wheel of Time series is a big regret for me. I only did it as a "bucket list" item because I started reading the books when I was a kid.

>> No.20734203

>>20733951
I don’t read.

>> No.20734605

>>20733951
Reading is a skill that you develop over time. I don't regret having read anything (except maybe wasting time reading/replying to posts on here but that's different).

>> No.20734675

>>20733951
'No Longer Human' by that buck-toothed mudskipper Osamu Dazai. Can't believe I fell for the meme.

>> No.20734686

>>20733956
There is a reason these types of postmo writers are niche…they just aren’t good

>> No.20734722

>>20733951
I don't think or can't recall anything that I've regretted reading.

>> No.20734742

>>20734722
Not even the Bible.

>> No.20734749

>>20734171
I read the first one and realized it was just a mediocre story excessively bloated. I didn't hate it, but I'm not going to waste my time reading the others when I could read so many better novels for the same page count

>> No.20734755

>>20734742
I've never read the bible

>> No.20734794

>>20733951
The Recognitions was such a brutal slog. After that I came to the realization that I should drop books if they are doing nothing for me and are I’m not looking forward to reading them

>> No.20734955

Catch 22

>> No.20735157

Emma

>> No.20735213

>>20733951
Fuck you

>> No.20735260

>>20733951
i wonder how many children these books left with anthropomorphic fetishes

>> No.20735269

>>20735260
It just gave me a transformation fetish

>> No.20735296

>>20733951
As someone who read them all a year or two ago, they start as kids risking their lives fighting aliens and end as a bunch of super traumatized child soldiers committing war crimes for the betterment of all, with a really creepy sequel hook that I know will never go anywhere.

>> No.20735316

>>20735296
Sounds like shit, no wonder HP became more popular

>> No.20735519
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20735519

This thread.
How can anyone have a reading regret. You'd have to be totally impressionable to everything you read and unable to have an idea in your mind without instantly accepting it.

>> No.20735751

>>20733951
Other than the how it ended why did you regret reading Animorphs?

>> No.20736427
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>>20733951
>sees this on multiple favorites lists
>finally read it
>literally have to drag myself through it, so fucking boring and dry
>basic “adventure” story, simple writing (not always a bad thing but still), repeatedly have to get myself to keep going through it
>main character has generic struggle
>my soul ages about 80 years waiting for me to give a shit, my hair slowly falls out and my bones turn entirely to dust, from the lack of nourishment this book is giving to me

>feels like fucking ages because it’s so boring but it’s so fucking short
>expect maybe the ending gets better
>nope generic ending
>”ok maybe this book was a fluke for me, let me see what others think about it”
>comparing main character to Christlike figure, “it’s his seminal work!!”, “masterpiece!”, “my favorite book of all time”
>permanently lose any faith in a god, if any morsel still remained in me after all my essence was sucked out of every individual cell of my body by the experience of reading this fucking book.
I’m sorry I’m being serious I really disliked this book. In the moment it was very trying (like not difficult but a slog to get through) but over time this has crystalized into a silent hate. I read it because I read “Hills Like White Elephants” and loved it.

>> No.20736455

>>20733951
Dracula
It was just boring and I didn’t get much value out of it for how long it took me to finish.

>> No.20736473

>>20736455
But how, it's so good

>> No.20736538

>>20736473
No people say that all the time about Dracula, and it’s true. It drags after the castle.

>> No.20736557

>>20734955
How come?

>> No.20736705

klara and the sun. promising beginning that went nowhere and was overall terribly dull

>> No.20736716

>>20735260
The thought never crossed my mind as a kid. I feel sorry for people growing up with the internet, they think furries and all kinds of weird shit is real.

>> No.20736867

>>20733951
Why would you regret reading kids books as a kid? That shit gets in your steps and helps you so much in teens/adulthood. I read all the fuckin Darren Shan saga which is utter dogshit and I don't regret that. Even the CS Lewis books I unequivocally hate now got me to where I am.

>> No.20736875
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TLDR: Saint Patrick never actually read the Bible, was illiterate, and went around killing people in Ireland because they enslaved him when he was like 15. When he confessed in order to become a Bishop his best friend renounced him and testified against him.

>> No.20737103

>>20733951
Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry
Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis

>> No.20737125

>>20733951
The Bible.

>> No.20737487
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20737487

>Oh did I mention the enzyme bonded concrete?

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20737526

Went through a phase reading Steven Pinker in my mid-teens and now that I look back, what a waste of fucking time.

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Bad

>> No.20737621

>>20736427
You never went finishing, you are below 16 and you probably don't have a father.

>> No.20737646

>>20737621
i'd say you're projecting but there's much sadder problems you clearly deal with daily

>> No.20737687

>>20736427
Redditor

>> No.20738360

>>20736427
Holy filtered. Zoomers are so cringe.

>> No.20738378

>>20735519
Wasting time, and possibly money. Also, disappointment. Sometimes it's better to never know that the book you've been looking forward to reading is actually dogshit.

>> No.20738472

>>20738378
Reading is a form of entertainment. It's purpose is to pass time in most cases, rather than solely to educate. Wasting time is the point.
Money regret is real, but not significant. /tv/ wouldn't make a thread about never forgetting the $6.66 lost for the matinee of National Treasure.

Disappointment I can see, though.

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I found this in the school library, long, long ago. I'm a bit ashamed to admit that this was the first real novel I ever read. And I really liked it...then. I don't think I can go back and verify if this is still true.

>> No.20738785

>>20733951
Manga. Not because I didn't enjoy it, but because I learned to draw by drawing manga, and everything you draw from them on has "manga syndrome" after that. You can never make that go away, you can only hide or disguise it.

>> No.20739696

>>20736538
>it drags
Instant gratification is a shallow mistress.

>> No.20739758

>>20734605
>I don't regret having read anything
Really!? You've never read a piece of shit novel? I can't even think of how many books I regret reading.

>> No.20739783

>>20737621
You're just finishing for praise here, friend.

>> No.20739795

>>20736867
>got me to where I am
Everything in your life got you to where you are now, so, do you regret nothing you've ever done?

>> No.20739857

Nana. I've read Germinal before and quite liked it, but this one was just plain unenjoyable for me it read like a Tolstoy novel if you take away everything good about Tolstoy's writing. I got maybe halfway through and had to drop it.

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20739881

Really didn't do it for me.

>> No.20739892

>>20739696
Dracula just has no gratification.
Quincey’s death was completely unearned.

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>>20733951
Blood & Fire - George Reddit Reddit Martin.
It fucking suuuucks bros.

>> No.20739926

>>20736455
Did you try Frankenstein?

>> No.20740075

like 90% of the canon is an utter waste of time

>> No.20740439

>>20740075
Who're you talking to?

>> No.20740453

Nothing But Blackened Teeth.

I should have dropped it 10 pages in but one can easily finish it in an evening and I had a morbid need to see how bad it got. It collectively had perhaps one and a half paragraphs of passable prose and read more like catty millennial whining than any sort of horror novel that it attempted to peg itself as. Reading it was like scoring a child's test a 0 while acknowledging that they actually tried.

>> No.20740663

>>20736875
>And so on that day I refused to suck their breasts for fear of God, but rather hoped they would come to the faith of Jesus Christ, because they were pagans.
Have sailors always been faggots?

>> No.20740699

>>20738767
I read the later reprint with Tanis, Flint, and a smoking hot Goldmoon on the cover. She is why I picked it up, I will not lie. I was 15, and it was the first fantasy series I'd discovered by myself after being raised on Lewis, Tolkien, and MacDonald.
I still like it. The Chronicles and Legends trilogies are still loads of fun, despite the dumb theology and quasi-stupid polytheism.
Laurana a best, Kitiara a wretched whore.

>> No.20740797

>>20734955
fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you

>> No.20740873

>>20739892
If you don't enjoy reading something in its entirety then why did you specify the end? These two statements contradict one another.

>> No.20740955

>>20733956
I read Universal Baseball Assoc just because I like baseball and play OOTP, which is basically a digital version of the game the protagonist created. It was alright.

>> No.20740975

>>20734171
I read the first few books expecting wed get into the good parts soon but then some guy told me those were the good parts and it goes downhill after that so I just quit lol. Shame htough I liked some of the concepts

>> No.20741201

>>20734203
Welcome to /lit/

>> No.20742300
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20742300

Fucking this. Call of the Crocodile has been the only “meme book” that wasn’t terribly boring.

>> No.20742330

disney wars books. god i hate myself

>> No.20742694

>>20733951
That stupid book about the pigs larping as communists
I want my four hours back

>> No.20742866

War and Peace Unabridged. Almost 1600 pages. It's supposed to be one of the greatest books of all time. It isn't.

>> No.20742873

>>20742866
You're wrong

>> No.20742907

>>20738767
>>20740699
I enjoyed this in middle school. I recently tried to read a bit as an adult, and was embarrassed and ashamed. I couldn't even read the entire first chapter. Now I'm too scared to reread any Drizzt books.

>>20742694
Nah bro, that book was pretty funny. How'd it take you so long anyway, it's like shorter than a first edition communist manifesto.

>> No.20742997

>>20742300
Shut up

>> No.20742999

>>20734755
keep it that way

>> No.20743002

>>20735519
Because you don’t have infinite time or energy to read
try read the bible and come back

>> No.20743045

of human bondage

read 2/3rds, couldn't deal with the guy endlessly cucking himself

>> No.20743980

>>20743002
If it was your goal to read the bibbul, then time spent reading about jewish lineages wouldn't be wasted (in the mind of the cuck).
Besides, you can just read the four gospels. It only takes half a day (less than 8 hours) and that's the only relevant part of the bibbul anyway.

>> No.20744304

>>20733951
i regret ever reading anything from this cursed website

>> No.20744563

>>20739758
I've read a few of them but I don't regret it. Reading is a personal exercise and it's not like you become tainted--unless you consider something like Randtards by they're stupid anyway.

>> No.20744580

>>20735519
Plato BTFO
lol

>> No.20745198

>>20735519
>what is hindsight

>> No.20745416

>>20733951
>that south aussie girl's boyfriend posts on /lit/
Called it. Post your non-PC books for me, since your gf wouldn't show me.

>> No.20745498

>>20733951
I went through a Neech/Guenon/Evola phase when I was 20 and all it ended up doing was blackpilling me and making me even more depressed and bitter than I was before. I still think there's a lot of truth to their writings, but I also don't really think it's mentally healthy to dwell on that stuff in the long run

>> No.20745510

>>20745498
Kind reminder that "blackpill" is just a red pill you cannot handle. I've been fine reading them, it's just hard to push yourself out of certain concepts that have been embedded in my brain since birth.
It feels great though. Very freeing.