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ITT: Classics you despise

This and everything else that twat wrote. Blech.

>> No.511333
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511333

Jane Eyre.

WITH ALL MY HATE.

>> No.511345

The Scarlett Letter, and Ham on Rye.

>> No.511355

>>511345
>>Ham on Rye
>>Classic

>> No.511357

Romeo and Juliet. Shitsux.

>> No.511360

>>511355
I guess it's not. Nevermind, then.

>> No.511367

Oliver Twist.

>> No.511398

>>511357
I enjoyed that.

Moby Dick.

>> No.511496

catcher in the motherfucking rye

>> No.511515

metallica

>> No.511524

>>511357
Faggot didn't get the penis jokes

>> No.511533

I'd have to say the The Scarlett Letter.

>> No.511538

>>511533
Subtract 1 "the"

>> No.511539

The ILIAD by HOMER

>> No.511540

>>511357
Fuck you, Shakespeare is GOD.

The Catcher in The Rye.
I don't care how "controversial" or "meaningful" it is, or how much I need to "read between the lines"
It was a piece of shit and nothing happened in it.

>> No.511545

A Tale of Two Cities.

Just couldn't get into it.

>> No.511547

>>511539

FUCK YOUR SHIT TO HIGH HEAVEN.

>> No.511550

>>511539
Fucking this. The whole thing is just a bunch of manly men tearing each other to pieces for the hell of it. Why it inspired generations of poets and writers I will never understand

>> No.511561

Madam Bovary

>> No.511564

>>511328
Amen, that fucking cunt couldn't write for shit. So boring.

>> No.511576

>>511328

Hah my mom loves that shit.

I tried to read it a couple of times and couldn't get into it.

I respect my mom's taste in literature, she's a really smart woman; maybe it's just mostly a woman's book?

>> No.511590

>>511576
Male here and I love it. Austen is funny and clever as hell you just have to accept that she only covers a tiny portion of life.

>> No.511592

MOTHERFUCKING AS I LAY DYING

also MOTHERFUCKING THE SOUND AND THE FURY

basically EVERYTHING BY THAT FUCK FAULKNER

>> No.511593

I hate Borges.


Seriously.

>> No.511687

Dickens. All of Dickens. Specially Great Expectations.

>> No.511689

Fucking James Joyce.

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>>511328
try this one instead

>> No.511720
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>>511328

>> No.511724

The Scarlet Letter. It was just.. ugh. More dry than a summer in the Sahara. Puritan romance ftl

>> No.511725

>>511720
nope
>>511717
even more nope

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512486

Picture very fucking related.

>> No.512496

>>512486
>>512486
Nigga what?! You's trollin.

>> No.512524

>>511333
THIS

>> No.512680

The outsiders...
Blech

>> No.512692

L'écume des jours

>> No.512721

Moby fucking Dick

>> No.512723

>>512486
Faggot

>> No.512737

>>512486
you done fuck you shit up
everyone on /lit/ loves gatsby

or is that /r9k/?

>> No.512740

A Tale of Two Cities.

Jane Austen.

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>>512486

>despise
>Gatsby

>> No.512833

>>512486
but...but it's perfect D:

>> No.512962

>>511720

but... this...

and jane austen was truly amusing! i read pride and prejudice in sixth grade (obviously didn't get EVERYTHING) but i actually like it!
and darcy was teh hots

jane eyre was crap though.

>> No.512997

Dune
The Republic
The Catcher in The Rye

>> No.513007

I really don't like Dicken's. And although I've never read it, I suspect I will someday really dislike Jane Eyre.

>> No.513010

Colin Firth UNF

>> No.513018

>>513007

Oh, but I do kind of like Austen. She isn't high on my reading list or anything, but I do find her vaguely entertaining. And also it gives you credibility with girls who work at the library.

>> No.513022

The House of Mirth.

Lily Bart was a stupid bitch.

>> No.513034

Wuthering fucking cocksucking cunting fucking Heights
My Brother Jack

>> No.513055

>>512680

>> No.513057

>>511357
It's better if you think of it as the companion play to Midsummer. The whole "Pyramus and Thisbe" play within a play tells the same story in a completely different light.

>> No.513062

man, everything by the bronte sisters is pretty bad. except anne bronte, she actually wrote realistically

>> No.513063

>>511357
Did you notice the characters' opening lines introduce their personalities?

>> No.513070

>>511545
When your first sentence is perfect, it must be hard to make the rest of the book live up to it.

>> No.513078

>>511593
I used to love him, until I realized there was no substance to his writing.

Nabokov on Borges: "Spanish writer of pretentious fairy-tales and mystico-allegoric anecdotes, highly esteemed by short-shift thesialists."

>> No.513085

>>512997
>The Republic
wat

>> No.513104

>>512997

....i've pretty agreed with everyone so far until I saw Dune.

>> No.513121

anarchy state utopia

it is just paper thin. disappointing more than anything.

>> No.513128

>>511328

"Gone With the Wind."

Garbage.

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Oh how I hate this accursed book.

>> No.513153

The Fucking English Patient. How many motherfucking kinds of wind are there?? Go back to Canada, twat.

>> No.513179

old man and the sea

>> No.513192

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

>> No.513418

Hate Dickens so much

>> No.513444

>>513179

great book

>> No.513450

yes.

>> No.513452

The Brothers Karamzov

>> No.513473

>>511687
THIS

This is the only book I ever started and just couldn't get through. (Great Expectations, that is.)

>> No.513477

>>513473
Dude I read Great Expectations when I was 13, how can you not finish it?

>> No.513491

>>513452
WHY

>> No.513494

>>513477

There's a thread for people like you

>>510902

>> No.513495

Anything written by that fucking hack Dickens. Shit sucks. PERIOD.

>> No.513501

MASTER AND MARGARITA JESUS FUCK MAN

>OMG I PUT A KAT AND A THIN MAN BROS FOR LYFE XDDD
>OMG DEVIL MOSKOW STRONG XD
>LUV STURRRRRYYY <33 XD

The fuck?

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I don't think it's quite a classic, but it sure gets a lot of literary recognition that irks me

>> No.513516
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>>512997
>Dune

Get. The. Fuck. Out.

>> No.513859

>>513501

Praise the lord and pass the bonfire. An ex friend of mine went through a Russian lit phase and inflicted this on me. Even worse than the book was her patting me on the head and telling me that it was okay that I was too stupid to comprehend it when I tried to tell her that it's basically a smug author wank.

>> No.513887

lolita

>> No.513904

>>513859
Punch dat bitch in the teeth

>> No.513907

>>513494
>>513494
lololololol

>> No.513915

>>513859

Whoever says the understood Master and Margarita is lying. That book is a mindfuck.

>> No.514503

>>513452
>>513511

Die, the both of you.

>> No.514518

almost anything by Shakespeare. and the fucking Outsiders, I hated that book so much.

>> No.514520

>>514518
Anything by Shakespeare? For serious? You are a plebeian.

>> No.515330
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>>511328
i like this book OP

>> No.515333

>>515330
you like crap books

>> No.515336

>>515333
i like zombies

>> No.515340

Fuck Great Expectations.

Tale of Two Cities is far superior but for some reason is not liked by the english majors who get to decide what goes into the curriculum.

>> No.515347

No Dickens goddamn can't stand it.

Hemmingway has always bored me but I don't outright despise it.

I actually hate the Fountainhead because it's like being beaten over the head with the pretentious stick.

>> No.515418

James Joyce

Hurr durr lets analyze this book, he used half of all English words that ever existed!!!!!!!11!!!!1! Maybe that is why it makes no fucking sense.

>> No.515436

The Outsiders

Hypersimplified horse shit that appeals to the adolescent desire to see social betters as moral inferiors, otherwise known as "sour grapes"

Everything by Dickens, ever

Mindless caricatures running around through bloated soap opera narratives

I don't hate Jane Austen but she's not really worth being studied. She doesn't have much more to offer than cleverness, and even that's only applied to small criticisms of boring, inhibited people.

>> No.515446

>>515418
but there are like a million english words and he only used like thirty thousand

>> No.515463

>>515446
Counting slang and dialects, all science and technology words

>> No.515470

I hate to say it but I kind of despise Anthony Burgess...I liked the film clockwork orange and not the book

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>>515436
>HURR EVERYTHING IS IN SHADES OF GREY DURR

>> No.515476

>>515446


Joyce would have been cool if he spoke English instead of Irish

>> No.515480

Hemingway - depressed mother fucker puts me to sleep

Salinger - he wrote what every hipster models themselves after

>> No.515488

>>515472

Sure is butthurt greaser in here. You better watch out, greaser, or I'm gonna come over there and beat you up and then, like, poop on your dog and set your shack on fire or something. Haw haw!

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>>513452

You'd best be trolling.

>> No.515515

Moby Dick

Crime and Punishment

>> No.515524

>>515480

Hipster.

>> No.515529

>>515504
no surprise anime loser is into meandering crap with no character development........

>> No.515537

>>515488
woah... your name is almomst an anagram of Lord Byron

>> No.515543

The Great Gatsby, shit sucks.
Scarlet Letter
and Jane Eyre.
Catcher in the Rye is on the fence though :/

>> No.515550

>>515529

>Brothers Karamazov
>No character development

lmao

>> No.516322

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

After that first line how could you not go on?

>> No.516360

Madame Bovary, without a doubt. Flaubert spent so much time agonising over the composition of sentences that he forgot narrative.

>> No.516387

>>515436
I have to agree about "the outsiders"

Though its for the reasons that it makes these social groups seem like some sort of "life or death" thing

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FUCK YOUUUUUUU, WERTHER!
FUCK YOUUUUUUU, FAUST!

>> No.516431

Reading Wuthering Heights gave me the inclination to gouge my own eyeballs out with a grapefruit spoon.

>> No.517587

Of Mice And Men

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THIS

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I don't know is this is a classic, but i hate it

>> No.517657

>>517652

What an asshole you are.

>> No.517659

>>516431
Agreed.