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So what is your least favorite acclaimed/classic piece of literature?
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>> No.6206410

>>6206385
Werther, fuck that beta faggot.

>> No.6206413

King Leer for sure, what a terrible terrible thing it is.

>> No.6206415

>>6206385

Are there alot of works that are considered "classics" but really aren't that worthy of the title? Like they aren't really that interesting or well written.

>> No.6206420

>>6206413
Fight me

>> No.6206423

>>6206413
I call it Leer cause I so often leer at it in disgusted curiosity

>> No.6206429

>>6206415
Pretty much all of them imo. Literature didn't really get readable until 1960ish

>> No.6206494

>>6206429
>>>/reddit/

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>> No.6206523

Not a fan of Dickens.

>> No.6206537

>>6206498
Napkin, simply napkin

>> No.6207485

Romeo and Juliet

>> No.6207505

>>6206385
The Awakening

>> No.6207506

The Stranger, pretty underwhelming considering how /lit/ creams itself over it.

>> No.6207518

Animal Farm

uhhhhh

>> No.6207523

>>6207506
>anon's not alive, dead, a stranger and killing an arab.

lol, wow

>> No.6207546

Least favourite has gotta be fucking fight club. It reads like a 13 year old emo kid shat onto a page. Favourite is Huck Finn btw, that or To kill a mockingbird. Or maybe 1984.

>> No.6207563

>>6207518
You mean baby's first allegory? I think it has its place. It meant more when it was relevant.

>> No.6207745

>>6206385
The Scarlet Letter
The Stranger
TKAM

In that order.

PS I actually liked A Tale of Two Cities.

>> No.6209625

>>6206385
This is read by every American child because it was the first American novel (apparently). How no one has realized that First=/=Best in over 200 years is beyond me.

>> No.6209637

>>6206498
Tell me again if you can ever come up with a chapter with lines as beautiful as

>Am I walking into eternity along Sandymount strand

>Airs romped around him, nipping and eager airs. They are coming, waves. The whitemaned seahorses, champing, brightwindbridled, the steeds of Mananaan

>Houses of decay, mine, his and all

>The grainy sand had gone from under his feet. His boots trod again a damp crackling mast, razorshells, squeaking pebbles, that on the unnumbered pebbles beats, wood sieved by the shipworm, lost Armada. Unwholesome sandflats waited to suck his treading soles, breathing upward sewage breath. He coasted them, walking warily. A porter-bottle stood up, stogged to its waist, in the cakey sand dough. A sentinel: isle of dreadful thirst. Broken hoops on the shore; at the land a maze of dark cunning nets; farther away chalkscrawled backdoors and on the higher beach a dryingline with two crucified shirts. Ringsend: wigwams of brown steersmen and master mariners. Human shells.

>Gold light on sea, on sand, on boulders. The sun is there, the slender trees, the lemon houses.

>A bloated carcass of a dog lay lolled on bladderwrack

>They serpented towards his feet, curling, unfurling many crests, every ninth, breaking, plashing, from far, from farther out, waves and waves.

>Across the sands of all the world, followed by the sun's flaming sword, to the west, trekking to evening lands

>Why not endless till the farthest star? Darkly they are there behind this light, darkness shining in the brightness, delta of Cassiopeia, worlds

>All days make their end

>> No.6209705

>>6206385
I've said this before but I think Hawthorne was a much better short story writer than a novelist.
Young Goodman Brown; The Minister's Black Veil and Feathertop are fine. The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables are pure tedium.

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Had to read it at school, absolutely hated it only school book where I never could finish the whole thing. Got kicked out of class for insisting it was no better than a Mills and Boon.

Still passed all my exams though, because I'm a supergenius or something.

>> No.6209752

>>6206385
Frankenstein
Thought it was girly and repetitive. No wonder its actually good premise has been raped beyond recognition

>> No.6209762

>>6206413
I actually had to check if there was a king "leer" because I could swear you weren't referring to king "Lear", the magnum opus of Shakespeare.
I'm okay with the subjectivity of preferring Macbeth or the tempest. But c'mon, you would put lear in the same position as the scarlet letter and other over-rated shit?
That just makes me sad :(

>> No.6209770

>>6209747
I'd have to agree, though the other Brontës are acceptable imo.

>> No.6209774

>>6209770
Not that Anon, but I agree. Jane Eyre is pretty good, even though I don't like romance.

>> No.6209789

Orwell's 1984.

Most people who claim to have read it publicly also haven't. Seriously, fuck with those guys when you can. Suggest there's a scene in the book that isn't in the book and ask them what they thought of it.

>> No.6209889

>>6207518
True. This shit is garbage

>> No.6209897

>>6209705
The short stories are equally tedious they're just more merciful because they don't last as long

>> No.6209907

>>6209774
Inevitably they were the innovators of a new era, only a bit after Byron and Wollstonecraft. And alas if you don't like romance, much less romantic era writing. They can be tough books to want to read lol.

>> No.6210156

>>6209789
I read something years ago that claimed more people have lied about reading 1984 than any other book.

>> No.6210166

Jane Austen and the Bronte Sisters are cancer.

>> No.6210176

>>6210156
I saw that mentioned on BBC's QI recently actually. Why the hell 1984 out of all books? I know some of my friends claimed to have read it when they didn't (one of them claims to have read the whole book because there was an extract from the book in some textbook in school). I just don't get it. Why 1984?

>> No.6210179

>>6209637
Is this really indicative of the book?

Serious question, because everyone says it's impenetrable so I've put it off assuming it would fly over my head, but those excerpts are stunning.

>> No.6210195

>>6210176
It's not even worth lying about. What is it, 200 pages? You could do it in an afternoon.

Although I also lie about reading books, mostly as an aspie way of getting out of conversations about books I have no interest in.

>hey anon I just finished reading the fault in our stars you should read it I'll lend it to you!
>uh... you don't have to do that
>it's no trouble!
>no, I mean... because I've already read it
>really? what did you think?
>it was good. very emotional.

>> No.6210209

>>6210195
Haha, that's understandable. I'm lucky that I don't really talk to people about books unless if I'm approached while reading and that's usually not by people who read The Fault In Our Stars or other books like it. I got a pretty good conversation from people before who were genuinely interested in some of the books I was reading. It doesn't make sense why people lie about reading 1984 though. The people I know who have lied about it don't even read books so I guess it could be a desperate attempt to seem educated? Fuck, I dunno.

>> No.6210222

>>6210209
>>6210195
>>6210176
A lot of people probably had to watch the film in high-school and just tell everyone they read the book to try and impress people.

>> No.6210233

The Trial, couldn't get into it for some reason

>> No.6210252

>>6210222
They made a film?

Is it any good?

>> No.6210268

>>6210252
It pretty good as far as book to film adaptions go, which is probably why so many people clung to it in order to sound intellectual.

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I'll tackle it again sometime but I just didn't get engrossed by this at all.

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6210362

I forced myself to read it page for page and it was not enjoyable.

>> No.6210366

>>6210355
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. If I wanted to read a socialist leaflet, instead of a piece of fiction, I would have.

>> No.6210368

>>6210366
>>6210355
Didn't mean to quote you.

>> No.6210387

>>6210362
Did you look up the meanings to the words you didn't know or did you just go through blindly?

>> No.6210393

>>6210179
It's a gorgeous book. The last 40 pages or so are the absolute peak of English language literature

>> No.6210399

>>6210355
It's kinda tedious but the last few pages make it worth it imo

>> No.6210414

Catcher in the Rye.

other stupid fucking pointless shit I've read thanks to public school:
The Joy Luck Club
Arm of the Starfish

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>>6206385
Oh my fucking god why do these threads keep popping up?

>be completely average
>have nothing meaningful to contribute to anything
>feel obsessive need to be considered interesting and constructive anyway
>"hey guyz guess wut heres a classic universally acclaimed peice of literature that i DONT LIKE. Isnt that INTERESTING? Arent I UNIQUE?"
>don't bother making any arguments supporting my statement besides completely arbitrary ones made up on the spot
>somehow feel good about self for this

No one is obligated to contribute, OP. Just do something to improve yourself instead of wasting everyone else's time.

>> No.6210430

Can you give me a list of what's considered "classic literature"? Or better yet, define it?

>> No.6210431

>>6210387
I went through blindly as a cocky challenge for myself.

>> No.6210436

>>6206523
This, Nicholas Nickleby especially is full of his shitty tropes, all the characters speak with the same voice contrived coincidences happen all the time and the protag is held to a totally different standard of conduct than everyone else

>> No.6210439

>>6209637
That's a whole lot of effort to say nothing at all. Besides, "it's not bad if you can't do better" is a retarded argument.

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>>6210355
>not liking the greatest novella of all time
Its 70 fucking pages long holy shit. Fuck your wrong opinions.

>> No.6210453

>>6210441
I didn't say it was too long, you mongoloid. I just wasn't won over by it. I didn't criticise it for its use of prose or structure or anything like that, it was just personal preference.

>> No.6210475

>>6210421
I've only done about 5 of these things. I need to read more… I'd certainly struggle with 52 books read in a year though. My years are usually rather busy..

>> No.6210486

>>6207485
This.

It's ye olde twilight.

>> No.6211086

>>6207546
> Huck Finn
> To Kill a Mockingbird
Good, but really, your favorite?
>1984
Hahaha are you fucking serious?

>> No.6211112

>>6211086
being entry level doesn't make a book bad

>> No.6211117

>>6211112
Doesnt make it good either

>> No.6211309

Madame Bovary. I don't think it's shit or anything like that, I just didn't like it at all.
Frankenstein is pretty shitty as well. Both Karloff movies are a much better way to tell the story. For me, it's a good example of why plot is actually important if you're writing narrative.

>> No.6211325

>>6211309
Crap, I deleted a sentence saying I thought Clockwork Orange was bad and it came out like I was saying Frankenstein was as shitty as Madame Bovary, right after I said I didn't think that one is shit.

>> No.6211348

>>6207505
She was a massive cunt.

>> No.6211496

> Finnegan's Wake

Pure nonsense, Joyce lacked the ability to communicate