Bad writing contest

[Anonymous No.21961916]

What was the worst book you ever read writing, style or phrasing-wise?

[Anonymous No.21961924]

>>21961916
the bible

[Anonymous No.21961945]

>>21961916
Solenoid by cartarescu

[Anonymous No.21961964]

>>21961916
crime and punishment

[Anonymous No.21961968]

>>21961916
Worst book I didn't finish: "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

Worst book I finished: "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros

[Anonymous No.21961973]

2 top contenders: l'academie and all of gardner

[Anonymous No.21961985]

house of leaves or daisy miller

[Anonymous No.21961988]

>>21961916
Fahrenheit 451

[Anonymous No.21962032]

a dirty job by christopher moore

[Anonymous No.21962174]

>>21961916
“Fretboard freedom:what Allan holdsworth may have known”. It’s just a retarded man’s descriptions of YouTube videos he watched of a brilliant man playing guitar. Grammar and spelling are nausea inducing dyslexic word salad.

[Anonymous No.21962186]

>>21961916
The Learned Disguise by RC Waldun

[Anonymous No.21962195]

>>21962186
that's impressively bad

[Anonymous No.21962231]

>>21961916
Some book a female family member reccomended who deluded themselves into thinking it wasn't generic pop genre fiction.
Oh wow it's a historical setting and they incorporate obscure trivia? This totally excuses it having every single trope and plot of other books.
I can't into female lit. The only women who've ever reccomended me a good read have been grey-haired book store owners and school librarians, not even regular librarians cut it.

[Anonymous No.21962346]

>>21961916
Ready Player One is the only proper answer.

[Anonymous No.21962875]

My own

[Anonymous No.21962908]

>>21961988
True, easily one of the weakest of Bradbury's writing. And when you look at how fast he wrote it, how it was originally a short story, and practically just an extremely angry response to every critic that gaslit him over whether he did or didnt like religion or minorities. It was pretty on the nose, but I do think some of the passages about his love for lit were beautiful. The dystopia part of it was peak absurdity, and not at all sympathetic to the view he was upset about.

[Anonymous No.21962965]

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky

[Anonymous No.21962970]

>>21961924
Now this is just intellectually dishonest.

[Anonymous No.21962987]

>>21961916
Every single thing frater has posted desu

[Anonymous No.21963141]

>>21961916
Andre Agassi

[Anonymous No.21963165]

>>21961916
>The nice man looked at the red cup.

[Anonymous No.21963255]

>>21961916
I had just finished one the campaigns of Mech Warrior 2. Was just getting into the series at the time, and thought that a novel in the same universe would be cool. This book doesn't belong on any "worst books ever lists", but I had to drop it after the first chapter because the jargon was utterly incomprehensible to me at the time. Have since played a lot more Mech Warrior and know a great deal more Mech jargon, so I may give this another shot once I clear other books from my (long) reading list. That said, it seems a poor decision to make your book impenetrable by new-comers. But I guess it's like the tenth book in the "Dark Age" series, so maybe it's my fault. idk

[Anonymous No.21963311]

>>21961916
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. I get that it was supposed to represent the thoughts of autists but the writing style is a classic case of "But I was only pretending to be retarded!"

[Anonymous No.21963683]

I miss that one thread that pretty much devolved into tearing Nothing but Blackened Teeth a new one because goddamn, does that book deserve crucifixion.

[Anonymous No.21963861]

>>21962186

>"There stood Felix, fared in such thoroughfare."

oh lordy

[Anonymous No.21963894]

>>21961916
r is for richocet

[Anonymous No.21964426]

>>21962186
>Discombobulate.

[Anonymous No.21964480]

The Butlerian Jihad trilogy written by Frank Herbert's talentless son. Nothing in those notebooks needed to be read by anyone other than Frank but they mined more genre shlock out of them than there are pages in the Bible.

[Anonymous No.21964485]

>>21962186
how did this get punished?

[Anonymous No.21964515]

>>21961916
In recent memory, The Pastel City.

The sheer ineptitude kept me reading well after I understood it wasn't worth the paper it could've been printed on if I hadn't downloaded it.

[Anonymous No.21964535]

>>21964485
It was self-published and shilled on /lit/.

[Anonymous No.21964549]

>>21961916
Chuck Wendig, that opening Disney EU novel

[Anonymous No.21964917]

>>21962186
This reads like the author had a fucking stroke and just kept going.

[Anonymous No.21964926]

Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison

[Anonymous No.21964930]

>>21962186
>cigarette buds

[Anonymous No.21964988]

It's been YEARS since I read it so I've unfortunately forgotten the title (the something dress, I had to read it for a class).

But I remember how awful the plot was! A 300 page book where the main character didn't do anything proactive or out of her own initiative until page 290. Her alcoholic abusive father weirdly did more to move the plot along for her than she herself did, it was awful.

[Anonymous No.21965099]

>>21961916
The Shitkickers by Jason Bryan

[Anonymous No.21965179]

>>21964988
Sounds realistic

[Anonymous No.21965192]

Sounds like 60% of modern literature

[Anonymous No.21965637]

>>21961916

[Anonymous No.21965820]

Since you asked, it's this. My girlfriend brought it on holiday a few years ago and I had nothing else to read.

It is a work of absolutely stunning stupidity. The premise is a university lecturer being possessed by an alien and this alien narrator is seeing the human race and living the human experience for the first time.

Any intelligent person knows that is the most insanely difficult feat of writing. Any intelligent writer would just sack it off. He tries to cheese it:

"I slammed my fist into the door"
But wait. How did you know what a fist is? How did you know a door could open? How did you know about slamming things to make noise?

^this in every single paragraph.

It's braindead normie novel writing at its finest. Or least fine.

[Anonymous No.21965831]

>>21961945
The translation?

[Anonymous No.21965843]

Is it cheating to say Dan Brown?
Though I read pic related recently, and its like a parody of what you'd expect from a based face npc. He refers to his grandfather's WW2 service as 'fighting the fash'. Awful sentimental shit about how amazing strong women are. It's the Guardian in poem form.

[Anonymous No.21965855]

midnight's children

[Anonymous No.21965931]

My diary desu

[Anonymous No.21966507]

Call of the Bug by Frank Gardner:

Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreams to discover that he had been transformed into a giant insect. His human body had been replaced by a bug body. He wasn't a human anymore, he was something else entirely. He was a bug. When he had gone to sleep, he had been a human, but after a night of unpleasant dreams, he had awoken to discover that he was a bug.
"I am a bug" thought Gregor Samsa. "Wow, this could be really bad for me. If I am a bug, how am I going to do all the human things I enjoy? I won't be allowed to go into stores to buy things or enter places of business to conduct transactions. I won't be able to purchase things at all. If I'm a bug, and not a human, if I try to go into a store, everyone will say 'You're not a human, you can't buy things here' and then I'll have to leave without buying anything. Although I suppose I could try and explain that I used to be a human, but then I went to sleep and had bad dreams, and now I'm a bug, and maybe then they will sell me things. But right now I should prepare myself not to buy things. I'll also have difficulty at the cinema and going to work."
Just then he remembered it was time to go to his job, where he worked. Normally, right after waking up, he started getting dressed and got ready for work. He had a job which he went to after waking up, and he had to prepare for it. He usually put on clothes and ate breakfast and brushed his teeth, in order to be ready to go work in the mornings. He did this after he woke up, because he had to be ready for his job. But this morning he had woken up from having bad dreams to discover that he had been transformed into a giant insect. Gregor thought about his morning, and how he had been transformed into an insect. This meant that he wasn't a human anymore, because he didn't have a human body. But he was having human thoughts. I guess people can have human thoughts if they're a bug, thought Gregor.

[Anonymous No.21966521]

>>21962186

[Anonymous No.21966584]

>>21964535
Did he really not edit it? Why does no one have the sense to get an editor? Are people not embarrassed to publish books that look like this? I know it costs money but holy hell save yourself from embarrassment. Even the cheapest copy edit could fix some of the lines.

[Anonymous No.21966586]

>>21961916
>What was the worst book you ever read writing, style or phrasing-wise?

[Anonymous No.21966727]

Tolkien, Lewis, and a few of their friends used to hold contests to see who could read this one the longest before laughing at how bad it was.

[Anonymous No.21966735]

>>21961916
Ulysses. I am being 100% sincere. The first few chapters were moderately enjoyable, but once the cuck leaves his house and starts wandering around town it turns into an unbelievable slog to read. Yes, the Western Canon exists. No, referencing it every other sentence dies not make a book good.

[Anonymous No.21967127]

>>21961916
>What was the worst book you ever read writing, style or phrasing-wise?

You (?) should make a distinction between the traductions and original books.

[Anonymous No.21967156]

>>21966735
you are right, but you are not supposed to say that

[Anonymous No.21967176]

>>21962186
>Brown drink? Drink the brown. Down it poured into the tube. Trembled! Begone!
Based logposter

[Anonymous No.21967287]

>>21962970
It depends on the translation

[Anonymous No.21967311]

>>21961916
I read a warhammer book, didn't finished it. I think it was "Warhammer: Mark of Chaos" or something like that.

[Anonymous No.21967318]

>>21965637
Is this the guy who works his fart fetish into Star Wars novels?

[Anonymous No.21967321]

>>21966735
I honestly did not enjoy it besides a few misplaced lines until chapter 15, that part written like a play. I laughed my ass off at it, and most of the book after that is really amusing. I don't know why I had a moment of clarity but I think it's because I started listening to how it sounded in my head and it became way more entertaining.

[Anonymous No.21968472]

>>21961916
I hate that this book jumps from first person to third person every few lines, it makes it hard to get immersed in the world.

[Anonymous No.21968634]

>>21961916
This one.

[Anonymous No.21968862]

>>21961916
The Catcher in the Rye, Pride and Prejudice and Ulysses. I've never read anything more devoid of soul and spirit.

[Anonymous No.21969150]

>>21968472
Judging from the cover i'd say the constant perspective shifts are the least of this books's problems.

[Anonymous No.21969154]

>>21968862
>The Catcher in the Rye, Pride and Prejudice and Ulysses. I've never read anything more devoid of soul and spirit.

You should not post everything you think, Take a break from the Internet.

[Anonymous No.21969181]

>>21969154
Catcher in the Rye is a little soulless

[Anonymous No.21969198]

>>21969181
>Catcher in the Rye is a little soulless
Nice for you.

I referring to the triplete without making an explanation.

[Anonymous No.21969200]

>>21961924
agreed

[Anonymous No.21969206]

>>21969154
It's not the internet that makes these so soulless, it's the complete absence of substance. The Catcher in the Rye is a meaningless stream of immature consciousness that can be produced by giving a stage to any dumb teenager. Pride and Prejudice is a through and through materialistic soap opera that challenges modern reality shows in the insignificance of its events. Ulysses is an obnoxiously pretentious academic exercise in graphomania.
In Search of Lost Time is at least filled with romantic impressionism. These are just empty scribbles that stain the paper they're written on.

[Anonymous No.21969213]

Team Zed: Shell Game, an Infinity novel (like 40k). Actually Graham McNeill's 40k novels are probably worse.

[Anonymous No.21969219]

>>21969206
>It's not the internet that makes these so soulless, it's the complete absence of substance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_%28media%29

Why do you read?

[Anonymous No.21969251]

>>21969219
For an echo chamber to apply one must reside in one.
I read because I value learning from what people across the ages had to say and find it important to enhance my worldview with other perspectives on life.

[Anonymous No.21969354]

Today, I found this weird passage from a "scholarly" introduction to The Art of English Poesy. The guy is just trying way too hard to sound youthful and modern.

[Anonymous No.21969369]

>>21961916
probably mine own

[Anonymous No.21969405]

Ready Player One. It will always be Ready Player One. This was funko pop aesthetics before funko pops existed.
I did read it very early on its initial post-publication period, when the "gen x redditor consoomer with hollow 80s nostalgia" archetype was just emerging and becoming possible to identify, but not yet crystalized. I almost want to argue Ready Player One did some of the legwork TO cement that archetype, since it served as a good shorthand way to sum up the ethos.

Excerpt from the novel.

[Anonymous No.21969411]

>>21961988
I read it and it felt like chewing something really hard.

[Anonymous No.21969416]

>>21969154
>The Cather in the Rye
????

Huh

????

How

????


I want to see what you read anon. Tell me.

[Anonymous No.21969419]

>>21969181
The writing is good. It's clear, concise, it's not phony. Phony like Stephen King.

[Anonymous No.21969422]

>>21969405
Ready Player Two excerpt also. It's worse in Ready Player Two.

[Anonymous No.21969427]

>>21969422
Wow. I mean it in a shocked, concerned way. (Very)

Ok, let's think positive, this is satire, right?

[Anonymous No.21969434]

>>21969427
>Ok, let's think positive, this is satire, right?
Oh my sweet naïve anon...

[Anonymous No.21969463]

>>21969251
>For an echo chamber to apply one must reside in one.

4chan is a social media/forum

>I read because I value learning from what people across the ages had to say and find it important to enhance my worldview with other perspectives on life.

Read a book of philosophy instead.

>>21969416

I do not know if laugh or cry.

[Anonymous No.21969480]

>>21969251
>>21969206
What's the endgame when writing posts as pompous as this? Here they are, on an utterly trivial website, anime on one side, pony porn on the other, sharing memes with teenage neo-nazis. And this is the register they choose? 'One must reside in one'?
It is autism?

[Anonymous No.21969499]

>>21969463
>4chan is a social media/forum
Good that I neither read those here, nor asked anyone from here about their opinion on them.
>Read a book of philosophy instead.
I did, quite a few of them. Those 3 books are still the most soulless jank I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.21969505]

>>21969434
Shit and there's that anon who nominate The Catcher In the Rye and Ulysses and Pride and Prejudice
>>21968862

I have a theory that he or she must be a Redditor

[Anonymous No.21969510]

>>21969463
I'm poster of >>21969416
I mean it for that anon >>21968862

Like bro

[Anonymous No.21969518]

>>21965099
Lol what does the "trick"?

[Anonymous No.21969530]

>>21969405
Is the writer serious about this? I'm pretty sure he's just mocking Redditors or soulless nerds from reading the transcript.

No way somebody is proud of this.

[Anonymous No.21969543]

>>21962186
If you quoted that with a -- James Joyce at the end you'd call it brilliant. The last few lines anyways.

[Anonymous No.21969553]

You're gonna shit on me, but the "official" translation of the Holy Bible in German as used in Catholic service.

I guess it was supposed to be approachable and easy to understand, but man, how fucking hard did they try to make the prose as unappealing and bland and awful as possible? Maybe the original text is just as bland, possible, but that is the one I've read.

I wish there were room for more creative and stylish translation of the bible. But of course that's hard because it will instantly cause autistic screetching.

[Anonymous No.21969558]

>>21969510
Dostoyevskiy, Tolstoy, Proust, Pelevin, Musil, Bulgakov, Hugo, Hesse, Remarque. Fitzgerald, after all. Asimov, Yefremov, Strugatsky. Milton, Griboyedov, Dante, Cervantes.
The Catcher in the Rye is a pile of soulless uninspired trash. Deal with it, american.

[Anonymous No.21969568]

>>21969530
Claiming that Ernst Cline wrote Ready Player One as a brilliant satire of pop-consumerist culture is a funny but sadly untrue cope. Maybe we can invoke Death of the Author just this once.

[Anonymous No.21969589]

>>21969558
But TCITR by JD Salinger isn't phony, you see. Some writers, despite being great can sound like they are lying to themselves, as if they're some sort of... classicist.

It made them far from being original. I think. That's the reason I find it very disagreeable to say that TCITR is badly-written, cause it's not. You may not agree with his ideas in the book but he eliminate bs or filler sentences and stories in his writing (at least in TCITR) which made me think he's pretty good at capturing his audience's attention. Albeit the emptiness conveyed in the story (which is his aim) it's still a story worth reading because of its brattiness, its raw opinions and his angst in his thoughts gave an insight to what someone really think without references to academia or previous literary figures.

Obviously, it's not the best book in the world but people don't get it, because people didn't understand Holden. Maybe neither did I, but I know a good writing when I read one, I think.

[Anonymous No.21969595]

>>21969568
Oh man, why oh why do the bookstore in my vicinity sell that book but not American Psycho or other George Orwell's books? Ah I'm stuck with liberals.

[Anonymous No.21969716]

>>21969434
>I like to think that if Jesus existed, he too would have shouted <<Wubba lubba dub dub!>> on the cross.

[Anonymous No.21969912]

>>21969434
>>21969422
>>21969405
I know it wasn't a good book, but holy shit, it's so much worse than I've expected. How and why would someone write this?

[Anonymous No.21969985]

>>21969912
>How and why would someone write this?
Good question.

[Anonymous No.21970010]

>>21969716
It's really amazing Ready Player Two is actually getting a film adaptation, just like the first one.

[Anonymous No.21970026]

>>21969985
This guy is horny or what?

I don't get it Ready Player something number sounds like it's targeted for 12 year olds and above, because it's a book about gaming, gaming is like, usually for teenagers to 20 year olds. I can't imagine people in their 30s or 40s reads the book. However the book is weirdly sexual and nihilistic. I never read the book.

>I checked the book.

Yep, this shit is real.

I read that the book is for 80s nostalgic people. Hmm. The movie say otherwise.

[Anonymous No.21970028]

Credit where it's due, these Ready Player whatever novels seem to capture their intended tone well, even if it is just a bunch of insufferable, fart-huffing geeks making pop culture references at one another at accelerating speeds. I'm not saying one should do this, but it does kind of sound like then when it is done. Personally, it just makes me want to leave either way.

[Anonymous No.21970037]

>>21970026
Ok the Ready Player One movie is PG-13 but the book is otherwise.
Ok, ok.

Big problem, what if a kid read the poorly-written book?

[Anonymous No.21970040]

>>21970010
Another excerpt.

[Anonymous No.21970045]

>>21970040
Why do they speak like 12-year-olds? The endless exclamation marks... Ugh

[Anonymous No.21970057]

>>21970040
>too many crackers
>valid literary criticism

[Anonymous No.21970058]

>>21970037
>Big problem, what if a kid read the poorly-written book?
You can be the arbiter of that.

[Anonymous No.21970068]

>>21970058
God... Why?

[Anonymous No.21970079]

I just flip random pages to see, maybe, just maybe the ridiculous parts are not a lot, but according to the scientific method of randomization....
There. We got another weird paragraphs.

How did the editor don't cringe?

[Anonymous No.21970102]

>>21961916
Everything by Judith Butler.

[Anonymous No.21970106]

>>21961924
fpbp

[Anonymous No.21970109]

>>21970079
It's really bad. It's amazing the sequel is getting a film adaptation.

[Anonymous No.21970137]

>>21970109
>Save haven for homeless LBGTQIA kids
Meanwhile homeless straight kids:

[Anonymous No.21970146]

>>21970137
Just starve to death you drones of the white male heteronormative patriarchy

[Anonymous No.21970160]

>>21962875
Oh anon don't be so hard on yourself

[Anonymous No.21970162]

>>21962346
was about to say this

[Anonymous No.21970166]

>>21964485
severely, I hope

[Anonymous No.21970243]

>>21970137
>Meanwhile homeless straight kids:
>What About Me?
Literally just die, that's what.

[Anonymous No.21970248]

>>21969558
Entry-level babby’s first literary fiction. Congrats

[Anonymous No.21970252]

>>21969206
>romantic impressionism
I love when retards out themselves for never having read Proust but insist on trying to describe his writing.

[Anonymous No.21970261]

>>21969543
It’s giving.. gets impressed by poems done by ChatGPT

[Anonymous No.21970285]

>>21970248
He says, trying to defend soulless american trash.
>>21970252
There's not much to describe in the first place, but his tired dull faggot sensitivity is at least justified by it being romantic. Which can't be said about the completely pointless garbage like Ulysses. Get fucked.

[Anonymous No.21970288]

>>21970243
And now this book is going to have a movie

[Anonymous No.21970291]

>>21970285
Fitzgerald is American.

[Anonymous No.21970303]

>>21970285
You are exactly the type of dweeb who--through their immense insecurity--developed an intellectual superiority complex and need to respond with immense rage to the idea that people read different books than you, yet you will respond with rage when others read the same books as you; you perform incredible mental gymnastics at the thought of someone having the same "taste" as you that you will collapse into diminishing their "understanding" because you, and only you, understand the books you read.

[Anonymous No.21970314]

>>21969589
I didn't say it's badly written. If anything, he at least makes an attempt to convey the mind of a teen.
>You may not agree with his ideas in the book but he eliminate bs or filler sentences and stories in his writing
The whole book itself is a pointless bullshit story of a random angsty teenager. It bears absolutely no literary value. It's empty. Pick any livejournal (or twitter for you zoomer folks) of any teen and you will see the same meaningless garbage. It could be half-decent if he at least tried to deduce some deeper than surface level outlook on life from it. But he never does.

[Anonymous No.21970318]

>>21970291
Fitzgerald isn't soulless. A rare exception with american literature.

[Anonymous No.21970331]

>>21969422
>>21969434
>>21969985
>>21970010
I had no idea Ready Player Two even existed. This is absolutely horrible. The only thing that could remotely redeem this is an ending where they are all executed violently in a popular revolution. The original was at least readable and an interesting storyline, especially if you read it as a criticism of consumerism and virtual escapism rather than an endorsement of it.

[Anonymous No.21970333]

>>21970303
>need to respond with immense rage to the idea that people read different books than you
That's literally your action in this thread, pathetic clown.
>because you, and only you, understand the books you read
Uh-oh, boo fucking hoo, look at this crybaby. Are you gonna cry because somebody disagreed with your evaluation of your beloved garbage? Stick your soulless american trash up your ass and shut your fucking face, bitch.

[Anonymous No.21970404]

>>21961916
I recently read a self-published book called "Stolen Innocence". It was like an episode of NCIS or some other crime show with the usual inaccuracies (hyper-accuracy of stomach contents, silencer makes gun dead silent, etc.) but set in Dallas with so many brand name references you'd swear the guy was autistic or getting paid to do so.

[Anonymous No.21970417]

>>21970333
>writes like a retard
>malding
Read more than 50 books before you start whinging your illiteracy here, bud. Take your meds

[Anonymous No.21970429]

>>21970417
Read more than 50 books a year and maybe then you'll learn how to quit being a whiny crybaby bitch.

[Anonymous No.21970449]

>>21970429
>tells someone to read more than 50 books a year
>has absolutely entry-level taste in books and can’t even make a coherent argument why certain books are bad besides raging like a trumped up schoolgirl
Sad!

[Anonymous No.21970503]

>>21970449
Get a load of this crybaby faggot, he's so pathetic he can't even produce a response without resorting to greentexing. Keep crying, bitch, and The Catcher in the Rye will keep being a bland empty waste of paper.

[Anonymous No.21970616]

>>21970503
>has entry-level taste
Sad!

[Anonymous No.21970635]

>>21964485
>>21970166
FUCKING KEK

[aaa No.21970655]

>>21961916
I am so sorry, but it might be The Well At The Worlds End... I know it inspired Tolkien to write LOTR, but it was just unsatisfying. It had one goid plot twist in the middle, but ehh... There is literally a character who spoils half the theuff... like, "Hey, mc, I think this woman will fall in love with you" or "I think you will meet this guy and fo this and that"...cmon... every time this guy appears, spoilers appear...so unsatisfying... then there are multiple characters without any closure... some of thrm had closure in a small flashback, like lord of utterbol
.. wouldnt it be vooler yo have mc face him and win...instead, a side character beats him off the screen.... then there is Morfin, or whatever...betrayed mc...never heard from again...the biggest opponent to mc was distsnce...he just walked...asked around and found out where the well is... Next yo no magic at all in this fantasy setting... only magical thing is the well...

[Anonymous No.21970662]

>>21970404
> it started with the Garcia family serving meals

>>21969589
Salinger is probably incapable of bad writing. He was one of the greatest talents of the 20th century

[aaa No.21970664]

>>21970655
and the book is written in older english, so it reads so slow... I would be fine with it nut with other flaws, it's a cherry on top

[Anonymous No.21970693]

>>21970655
>>21970664
ESL tolkiendrone detected
Morris was a master and far better than hack tolkien

[Anonymous No.21970782]

>>21961916
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers. I had an idea it wasn't going to be great and I know genre stuff is generally worse but it definitely is the worst book I've read (recently). It is one of only a few books I'm astonished was published as-is.

[Anonymous No.21970885]

>>21970503
No u

[Anonymous No.21970949]

>>21970109
>Wakandan Outreach Initiative
If it weren't for the obvious fact that the writer is such a complete hack, i would've presumed that the irony of this organization, which is (presumably) ran by a white person and is dedicated to giving technology to African countries, being given that name was intentional.

[Anonymous No.21970968]

>>21969206
well THIS is now the worst piece of writing Ive ever read

[Anonymous No.21971133]

>>21970655
>vooler yo

[Anonymous No.21971242]

>>21969434
There’s no fucking way

[Anonymous No.21971262]

>>21969558
>Asimov

Lol
Lmao

[Anonymous No.21971413]

>>21962186
I like it.

[aaa No.21971613]

>>21970693
There was nothing in that book... sorry, but its as if jorney to mordor but you only had Shire. Rivendell, isengard and mordor...oh, and the moment you enter mordor people start helping you and you arent even bring chased by anyone....and everything gets spoiled by the merchant guy....we are about yo see the princess snd he is "she will develop feelings for you"....I wanted yo yell at tjat character....also, funny how Bull Nosey had a more interesting adventure than the main character. I fisliked lord of utterbol and Morfin, I wanted to see mc take them on. Instead, the final battle was with some unrelsted nobodies from that town. No bad guy wanted to get yo the well... Apparentlyonly MC in 100+ years wants the well even if its location isn't all that secret. MC has no real antagonist to go against here. I do not regret reading this book at all, but I wanted more. It was probably groundbreaking for its time, thats why I said "sorry" at the start.

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>>21971133
typos wont leave me

[aaa No.21971629]

>>21970693
Oh, and that plot twist with, spoiler, lady of abundance being killed got me super off guard. I did not expect that. MC had everything at that point served to him on a silver platter. That mood shift was very well written...it just that other moments werent, otherwise he could have made something way beyond average. Imagine actual wars over the well...

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>>21961916
I think it was A Sinner's Eden

[Anonymous No.21971638]

>>21969150
The story is decent, it's just the third to first person shifts are done poorly. Plus, it's slim pickings for furry stories that aren't just about coming out or erotica, I have to take what I can get.

[Anonymous No.21971929]

Rabbits by Terry Miles

[Anonymous No.21971949]

>>21961916
>Medications by Marcus Aurelius
I can't believe retards think this is some profound wisdom. It's one of the rare books I couldn't finish. The other being "How to win friends and influence people", for similar reasons.

[Anonymous No.21972131]

>>21969206
>Pride and Prejudice is a through and through materialistic soap opera that challenges modern reality shows in the insignificance of its events.
I'm not a fan of Austen but not even me feels that she's a bad writer. I'm not into drama but she's good at writing dilemmas.


>Ulysses is an obnoxiously pretentious academic exercise in graphomania.
I never read Ulysses but calling an ancient work pretentious is kinda a stretch, also saying it written for the sake of writing... That's not an argument. Why do you say this?

Also, not any dumb teenager can write like JD Salinger, sheesh, they have crazy thoughts but I'm pretty sure not all of them can write like him lmao

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>>21964480
all of the prequel books are appalling. only time i've thrown a book away.

[Anonymous No.21972353]

>>21968634
This book is simple, but it's extremely well-written.

[Anonymous No.21972384]

>>21962186
the author HAD to be smoking crack. this nonsense could not be produced by the sober mind.

[Anonymous No.21972391]

>>21966521
>the purpose was to make the reader suffer
the cope is unreal

[Anonymous No.21972450]

>>21961916
True Allegiance by Ben Shapiro

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>>21961924
Probably because it's a group of mistranslated paraphrases that are not meant to be consistently authored together.
>>21961916
1984 followed by Harry Potter.
>>21969405
Ready Player One is certainly bad but it does it's job and targets it's audience, imagine picking up a book about video games and pop culture and then getting angry when a character dedicates 3 pages to explaining why Blood is his favorite video game and name drops 5 other video games as cross references.
1984 tries to be a good book but it's so devoid of actuality that I read 8 pages and threw it away. Same with Harry Potter, I got to chapter 11 and stopped.

[Anonymous No.21972462]

>>21961916
I read the first chapter of The Three Body Problem and it was truly the worst published work I had ever subjected myself to.

[Anonymous No.21972464]

>>21972450
An example

[Anonymous No.21972507]

>>21961916
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. Worst. Written. Descriptions. Ever.

[Anonymous No.21972571]

>>21972131
Ulysses is a novel by Joyce, lmao. You're thinking of Odyssey.

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>>21961916
The books I write.

[Anonymous No.21972590]

>>21970318
I saw this Chink on another thread bashing Fitzgerald lol.

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>>21969422
Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series has some of the funniest moments of comedy in anything I've seen. It's almost a shame that it would be referenced in something like this.

[Anonymous No.21973121]

>>21972571
Oh.


With that, everyone makes mistakes anon

[Anonymous No.21973125]

>>21972450
After hanging out in 4chan, I realized that guy is a big jewish idiot

He didn't think before he speak, maybe if he doesn't try to impress people with speaking too fast and incoherently maybe he'll actually have sound arguments.

He's a celebrity, that's why people listen to him

[Anonymous No.21973128]

>>21972590
How do you know he's Asian... or even the same person?

[Anonymous No.21973186]

ready player one

i tried to force myself but just couldn't

[Anonymous No.21973941]

>>21973128
I know who it is because he goes out of his way ono every thread to shit talk Fitzgerald for zero reason. I've seen him on a few threads here and yes, because he often circlejerks Chinese literature and philosophers, we call him a chink.

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>>21962186
This reads like the short stories I wrote when I was 12, what publisher approved of this?

[Anonymous No.21974259]

>>21961916
"I wiped the blade against my jeans and walked into the bar. It was mid-afternoon, very hot and still. The bar was deserted. I ordered a whiskey. The barman looked at the blood and asked:

‘God?’

‘Yeah.’

‘S’pose it’s time someone finished that hypocritical little punk, always bragging about his old man’s power…’

He smiled crookedly, insinuatingly, a slight nausea shuddered through me. I replied weakly:

‘It was kind of sick, he didn’t fight back or anything, just kept trying to touch me and shit, like one of those dogs that try to fuck your leg. Something in me snapped, the whingeing had ground me down too low. I really hated that sanctimonious little creep.’

‘So you snuffed him?’

‘Yeah, I’ve killed him, knifed the life out of him, once I started I got frenzied, it was an ecstasy, I never knew I could hate so much.’

I felt very calm, slightly light-headed. The whisky tasted good, vaporizing in my throat. We were silent for a few moments. The barman looked at me levelly, the edge of his eyes twitching slightly with anxiety:

There’ll be trouble though, don’tcha think?’

‘I don’t give a shit, the threats are all used up, I just don’t give a shit.’

‘You know what they say about his old man? Ruthless bastard they say. Cruel…’

‘I just hope I’ve hurt him, if he even exists.’

‘Woulden wanna cross him merself,’ he muttered.

I wanted to say ‘yeah, well that’s where we differ’, but the energy for it wasn’t there. The fan rotated languidly, casting spidery shadows across the room. We sat in silence a little longer. The barman broke first:

‘So God’s dead?’

‘If that’s who he was. That fucking kid lied all the time. I just hope it’s true this time.’

The barman worked at one of his teeth with his tongue, uneasily:

‘It’s kindova big crime though, isn’t it? You know how it is, when one of the cops goes down and everything’s dropped ’til they find the guy who did it. I mean, you’re not just breaking a law, your breaking LAW.’

I scraped my finger along my jeans, and suspended it over the bar, so that a thick clot of blood fell down into my whisky, and dissolved. I smiled:

‘Maybe it’s a big crime,’ I mused vaguely ‘but maybe it’s nothing at all…’ ‘…and we have killed him’ writes Nietzsche, but—destituted of community—I crave a little time with him on my own.

In perfect communion I lick the dagger foamed with God’s blood."

- Nick Land

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>>21962186
I don't get it. What's so bad about this besides some weird punctuation?

[Anonymous No.21974289]

>>21962186
>Laughter, soon came forth.

[Anonymous No.21974327]

the fellowship of the ring

[Anonymous No.21975166]

>>21961916
House on Mango Street, for school.
Shitty book by a retarded author whose only sales are to schools who make the students read this fucking garbage. I don't give a flying fuck if the author is some sexually abused latina, I use her books for toilet paper.
Now ask me how I really feel.

[Anonymous No.21975187]

>>21961916
Taipei

[Anonymous No.21975379]

>>21970109
I hate how millenial/zoomer fags think that gamers are supposed to support them or something. "Fag" has been the #1 derogatory in gaming since voip was introduced.
>ItS tOxIc
Coddled single-child bubble babies.

[Anonymous No.21975519]

>>21975379
Zoomers are such pussies. They would have a heart attack if they heard how people talked on Xbox Live in 2006.

[Anonymous No.21975526]

>>21961916
Empress Theresa is pretty much the king of this. Worst book I've ever heard of.

[Anonymous No.21975565]

>>21961916
Probably one of Onision's books

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>>21975166
>Now ask me how I really feel.
ok, now how do you really feel?

[Anonymous No.21976276]

>>21961916
Harry Potter. The first one. I dropped it as a 16 year old when it came out. A friend of mine insisted that I have to read it. Horrible. Didn't finish it and gave it back to her.

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>>21961916
some unutterably awful trash "horror erotica" called Painfreak

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>>21972507
this wasn't the worst thing I have ever read but it's pretty bad. I made it up to the "schoolgirl rape as spiritual necessity" part and just...stopped. I used to think Murakami was pretty decent but this book changed my opinion

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>>21972464
I don't get it. What is this about?

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>>21969422
>>21969434
You know, I read the absolute bottom of the barrel slop translated asian novels, and the worse they are the more they piggyback off of popular things, but in all my years I haven't seen shit so long and repulsive, at most you would get a line or two, made into a joke while going hint hint nudge nudge, but this is something else.

[Anonymous No.21977015]

Has anyone said everything by Hemingway yet? My god it was like chewing gravel.

[Anonymous No.21977114]

>>21961916
Don't you guys Just LOVE hearing the sound of experience itself?

>But that’s it. It is that music. Or was it the person playing you “heard”? Was that the feeling? Heard but not seen! A sound of Experience itself. Weigh it, store it; luckily in your “life” you can be dumb about it. Her privacy inseparable from the noise of the instrument: piano or violin; some days both. The musician’s secure devotion. Practice, yet not to make perfect. Scale-like up-and-down workouts on violin that were more like real music when the in-between notes got crazily played. Early experience of somebody else’s, yes, thought earned. Or could it have been some teenage, fairly early experience for you of pausing: pausing to Look Back! But why back, when what you were hearing was your mother’s concentration right now? But where was it going?
>This was you going too. Does that just mean “growing”? Or that you doubled her going? Who could you report such claptrap to? Is it monstrous that to this day you have not thought much about her going? Fact was, she went, dead or alive.

[Anonymous No.21977478]

Anything by that snaggle-toothed hack Pratchett.

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>>21977114
this reads like an ESL taking a bunch of common English phrases and stringing them along with the vain hope that they'll form a coherent story.

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>>21961916
Last year I found a small pub company at the local fair, and I managed to strike a conversation with one of the authors there. I asked for a few pointer regarding trad publishing, (keep in mind this was a very small pub company, but it was better than nothing to me)
By the end, out of courtesy, I bought one of her books
Never have I read anything this derivative, boring, and ridicolous. Basically a low tier marvel fanfiction.
Basically a world in which a clan of people had powers from the norse pantheon (they were called "Nordics", how original), and their enemies were the frost giants.
Because of some bullshit, the MC and his new friend end up trapped in the land of the gods and have to find a way back. Half of it is the MC and his friend (who's a white haired twink with ice power, basically gay jack frost) falling in love
Then they meet a guy and a girl, and this devolves into a misunderstanding tripe with the gay jack frost thinking the MC wants the girl, and because of this he leaves to join his evil rapist dad who's king of the giants. Did I mention the giants were basically orcs that have to reproduce via rape?
Funny thing is, even after all the moping about how he loves gay jack frost, the MC and the girl actually do have sex. For no real reason, a single paragraph after talking about the people they actually want to have sex with.
The next day, the other guy (the one that girl likes) finds her in bed with MC and is totally cool with it "yeah, he needed to get laid lmao but you actually like me, right?"
Most gratuitous sex scene ever.
Anyway, near the end gay frost comes back and helps them escape back to their world but dies in the process. Sad.
Epliogue then reveals that those portals bended time, and that their two new friends were teleported on earth, but in the past. That girl he fucked? She's his ancestor.
Absolutely hilarious.
Oh and also it wasn't interesting to read in general, plot aside

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>>21968634
A terrible opinion, anon

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>>21978969
Wtf chicken nuggets review man and Rodger??

[Anonymous No.21979135]

>>21962186
You trying to sneak that Nabakov? Lmao. Anyway that is truly some of the worst prose I have ever read.
>cigarette buds
Was this even edited?

[Anonymous No.21979194]

The mishap that made me quit fantasy-fiction forever

[Anonymous No.21979249]

I don't get the hate for this? Sure nothing happens at all for 300+ pages, but the prose is so good it makes up for the Gary Stu self insert, the shitty harem shit, boring ass Harry Potter setting, an nonexistent plot, and incredibly awkward sex scenes; written as if Rofuss himself never had sex.

[Anonymous No.21979260]

>>21977114
>>21977754
McCarthy cuck is still seething over McElroy

[Anonymous No.21979293]

>>21979260
who?

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>>21979293
(you) >>21976690

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>>21961916
Einführung in die Metaphysik by M. Heidegger
A cringefest.

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>>21962346
Babe, you're not going to find me on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.21979421]

>>21968634
Well written, but bad. I give it a 10/10

[Anonymous No.21979486]

>>21966521
This post is kinda fascinating, its like someone adapted the forced hs literary analysis method and made it his actual mindset. Calling this a midwit take would be giving it too much credit.

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>>21979418
Yee claw

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>>21969434

[Anonymous No.21979663]

>>21962346
His poem about porn is even worse. That shit lives in my head rent free, whenever I feel low for myself I just remember I didnt make something that garbage
https://youtu.be/Zisve_6MsvM

[Anonymous No.21979715]

A full half of the The Chronicles of Amber should have been pruned.

[Anonymous No.21979738]

>>21966507
Thank you for this

[Anonymous No.21979783]

>>21972571
I dropped by this thread to shit on Joyce, thanks for getting that started anon

[Anonymous No.21979805]

>>21969405
>>21969422
>>21969434
>>21969985

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>>21961916
the iron heel by jack london.

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>>21979663
how is it possible to be this elitist about porn?

[Anonymous No.21980318]

>>21979260
McElroy is a trash writer and you are low IQ trash.

[Anonymous No.21980703]

>>21962186
ye olde mike and melissa beer - glug glug - piss scene

[Anonymous No.21980735]

How has no one said Requiem for a Dream yet?

[Anonymous No.21980759]

>>21961916
On the top of my head, >>21969405
>and of course, Kevin Smith
Ok, that made me chuckle

[Anonymous No.21980769]

>>21980759
Shit, I meant to say "On the top of my head, Orlando by Virginia Woolf"

[Anonymous No.21980777]

>>21961973
>l'academie
>Bad
I think you meant to spell 'visionary'. You're clearly not capable of evaluating writing then.

[Anonymous No.21980803]

>>21969405
This unironically reads like a shitpost
Infact I read this whole thing before years ago, not knowing it was from this book and lol'd at how ridiculous it was

[Anonymous No.21980824]

>>21970010
Not only is this bad, he is LITERALLY wrong about the Silmarillion
It has a story with consistent characters and themes and an over arching plot line
Just because it takes place over thousands of years and has alot of lore doesn't make it not a novel
KWAR

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>>21974259
What book so I can avoid this cringe?

[Anonymous No.21980852]

>>21961916
The Quran

[Anonymous No.21980856]

True

[Anonymous No.21981443]

>>21962186
>hmm let's see, the dialogue Is kinda clunky but it isn't atrocious
>gets to the narration
>"laughter, soon came forth"
>"wait, waiter's waist coat, Cody's hair, thoroughly combed
>fared in such thoroughfare
>drink: aligned, cigarette buds: scattered

It just keeps getting worse with every line holy shit

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>>21972391
>>21979486

[Anonymous No.21981457]

>>21961916
Some Estonian teen drama novel. I wrote a very angry review about it and they even published me.

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>>21976668
>schoolgirl rape as spiritual necessity
sounds based

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>>21981457
Based reviewer

[Anonymous No.21981864]

>>21962195 >>21963861 >>21964426 >>21964485 >>21964917 >>21964930 >>21966521 >>21967176 >>21969543 >>21971413 >>21972384 >>21974219 >>21974281 >>21974289 >>21979135 >>21980703 >>21981443

here's my copy , u can also find on libgen!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/btxb9ey99mj3h5a/The%20Learned%20Disguise%20-%20R.C.%20Waldun.epub?dl=0

[Anonymous No.21981866]

>>21961924
Wow Reddit army here

[Anonymous No.21981878]

>>21981864
thanks anon, I was looking for a copy

[Anonymous No.21982075]

>>21979663
He is unironically a redditor: someone utterly trapped in the modern, liberal zeitgeist to the point in which his thinking faculties are all devoured by the monster of pop culture. That this got published and even become popular for a short time should be all the evidence we need to realize how doomed this generation is.

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>>21961916
Kneel before Atlas shurgged, you will know suffering when you reach Galt's speech.

[Anonymous No.21982230]

>>21982075
He's generation X dude. This generation has compltely different problems, ones that don't consist of reddit shit

[Anonymous No.21982262]

i give you the darkwind chronicles

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>>21979293
His father lmao

[Anonymous No.21982386]

>>21976668
>"schoolgirl rape as spiritual necessity"
Gonna read this now.

[Anonymous No.21982387]

My diary desu

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>>21982262
this is painfully generic.

[Anonymous No.21982631]

>>21975519
>>21975379
Gay and trans people hide online when the world wont accept them, and love using gay slurs the most. Your neet safe spaces double as queer safe spaces, retards

[Anonymous No.21982663]

>>21979249
Yeah I found that whilst reading it as well. Completely juvenile at times but thoroughly engaging. Shame about the 2nd book.