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Anonymous Tue Sep 23 02:30:13 2014 No.5473253 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Worst books of all time.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 02:33:32 2014 No.5473258 It wasn't thaaaaat bad. It was entertaining at times. It just didn't need to be so long and the whole "conceptual" aspect of the novel feels really tacked on. you know im right

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 02:45:04 2014 No.5473274 inb4 Bible, The Alchemist, and Atlas Shrugged.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 02:47:30 2014 No.5473278 >>5473253 >IJ was too tough for me >therefore its the worst book of all time lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 02:55:33 2014 No.5473295 >>5473253 I think The Pale King is much better, even though it's unfinished. Man, I wish he finished it. ;_;

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 03:39:38 2014 No.5473401 taipei sherlock holmes

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 03:40:53 2014 No.5473404 The Bible, the Alchemist, and Atlas Shrugged

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 06:30:42 2014 No.5473651 Atlas Shrugged

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 06:32:05 2014 No.5473656 >>5473278 Never read it? IJ isn't tough at all. It's just long.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 06:32:17 2014 No.5473658 The one you're working on right now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 06:37:29 2014 No.5473667 >>5473295 I thought "unfinished" meant he was still working on it and bits may be missing but it does carry you to the end?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 06:39:55 2014 No.5473675 File: 73 KB, 497x339, thankmrsalmon.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 15:17:44 2014 No.5475217 >>5473656 It's relatively challenging and you know it. Most people can't get through it. It doesn't have to be Finnegans Wake to be tough for the average person. This being said, it was very enjoyable for me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 15:18:39 2014 No.5475220 >>5473675 thank you mr. salmon

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 15:19:55 2014 No.5475225 >>5473667 Who knows what the ending was supposed to be? If he had killed himself right before releasing IJ people might assume he hadn't finished it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 15:31:53 2014 No.5475272 File: 198 KB, 1000x1249, don-quixote.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 15:34:44 2014 No.5475282 The Stranger.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 15:58:54 2014 No.5475369 File: 163 KB, 319x333, 1387845716336.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5473675 thank you based salmon

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 16:04:56 2014 No.5475392 >>5475272 >>5475282 Meta-elitist edgy >>5473253 Bait >>5473401 Subtle Troll/Elitist >>5473404 Banal >>5473675 Thank you Mr. Salmon One of the worst books of all time is Gamer Girl.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 16:14:03 2014 No.5475433 >>5473274 Read Ecclesiastes, come back and tell me you've changed your mind.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 16:15:46 2014 No.5475441 >>5475433 Sorry, wrong post.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 16:19:52 2014 No.5475453 >>5475433 why does everybody think ecclesiastes is good? it's fucking basic asss babby's first existential crisis "oh no, i have everything and im sad, that means you should believe in god"

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 16:22:14 2014 No.5475468 Anthem

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 16:24:04 2014 No.5475472 >>5473675 thank mr salmon

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 16:34:49 2014 No.5475513 >>5475453 that's the level of discourse you get in the bible. it's the best in a pile of shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 16:36:04 2014 No.5475520 >>5475453 this is basically ecclesiastes "The sun is yellow, and it is warm, life is warm, so its the color of yellow" oh so touching so moving so deep

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 16:36:37 2014 No.5475527 life of pi by dostoevsky

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 16:39:35 2014 No.5475544 >>5473675 thanks samin

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 16:47:23 2014 No.5475579 Shoplifting from American Apparel and Anthem are my two least favorites.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 16:49:40 2014 No.5475589 >>5473675 thank mr salmon

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 16:51:01 2014 No.5475596 >>5473253 A pointless discussion until you define 'worst'

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 17:01:35 2014 No.5475646 >ctrl+f Twilight >no results ITT: People post universally acclaimed works of classic literature that they don't even believe is terrible in order to get replies.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 17:05:54 2014 No.5475665 File: 2.37 MB, 1149x1600, the-fault-in-our-stars.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5473253

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 17:17:04 2014 No.5475728 >>5473675 thank mr salmon