/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.7016393]

What is the worst book you ever read?

Pic related, it's mine

[Anonymous No.7016422]

Absolute shit. Pretentious and uninspired. Haven't touched a King book since.

[Anonymous No.7016433]

I've heard that others like Player of Games are much better, but this left such a bad taste.

[Anonymous No.7016448]

>>7016393
My diary, tbh

[Anonymous No.7016449]

[Profane !!aA0k1/YgCq9 No.7016451]

This is objectively the worst book ever written.

Do not try me. I would rather eat rocks.

"A comic epic poem in prose"

[Anonymous No.7016458]

>>7016433
Wait wait, worst book EVER?

I didn't like it that much either but that's really really harsh.

[Anonymous No.7016469]

>>7016449
I remember liking the atmosphere for the 1st 100 pages or so and then the plot turned to shit and the ending was (as always) incredibly goofy

[Anonymous No.7016473]

Truly a marvel that an editor green-lit this.

[Anonymous No.7016587]

Jane Eyre.

I honestly, honestly, honestly can't comprehend how people think it's even remotely good.

Most classics have something in them I can understand as interesting of timeless. But I literally, literally can't even with JE

[Anonymous No.7016600]

Anything, fucking ANYTHING by Cory Doctorow

[Anonymous No.7016644]

[Anonymous No.7016654]

[Anonymous No.7016669]

>>7016393
The Catcher in the Rye
Good read for sitting on the toilet.
Also doubles as butt wipe.

[Anonymous No.7016684]

probably Catcher in the Rye
Holden is just so unlikeable!

[Anonymous No.7016697]

>>7016422
S. King
contrived, contrived, contrived

[Anonymous No.7016706]

[Anonymous No.7016761]

Kafka on the Shore. When Kafka and Oshima have those little chats, it was like reading a /lit/ thread on philosophy. Painful.

[Anonymous No.7016770]

>>7016706
He got in trouble for plagiarism /twice/, didn't he?

[Anonymous No.7016782]

The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break... Its utter shite

[Anonymous No.7017909]

>>7016393

I tried to like it, I really did, but holy shit. The whole series had been going downhill for quite sometime before this volume, and it's not like it was supposed be hard science fiction in the first place, but this is the point where I had to get off the ride.

[Anonymous No.7018072]

>>7016706

I read "The painted bird" and I thought "this is awesome" but then I read "Passion Play" and it was so bad. I'm disenchanted.

[Anonymous No.7018717]

>>7016393
nothing is as it seems

[Anonymous No.7018764]

>>7018717
why was this one so terrible? is it the author? my gf is obsessed with him

[Anonymous No.7018786]

>>7018717
dogshit book indeed

[Anonymous No.7018798]

Paulo Coelho sucks in general

[Anonymous No.7018803]

Boy...that's going to go to either "The Story of O" or "The Elementary Particles", which were both so disappointing that I can't even look at their covers.

[Anonymous No.7018809]

>>7018717
This because by the time you're 500pgs in and realise it's shit it's way too late.

[Anonymous No.7018831]

>>7016393
Catcher in the rye

[Anonymous No.7018865]

>>7018717
This. Total garbage. I lost two days of my life for this. I don't even hate Murakami. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has its merits.

[Anonymous No.7018914]

Literally the same shit as Eeeee Eee Eeee but way more pretentious. Are all his novels about a frustrated pomo wannabe neoyorker author and his struggle with existentialism?

[Anonymous No.7018916]

>>7018914
this was shit.

I read it after Tai Pei, which literally erases any need for Shoplifting to even exist.

[Anonymous No.7018931]

Old man's war and name of the wind
Easily the worst pseudo intellectual progressive genre garbage one can read. They have no redeeming qualities.
I hated Madame Bovary with a passion, but it's not that bad. Just unbelievably boring.
Some warhammer stuff was really bad, but it's expected.

[Anonymous No.7019143]

Pride & Prejudice and A Clockwork Orange

[Anonymous No.7019240]

Either this or War of the Worlds.

[Anonymous No.7019389]

Either this or The Shining.

[Anonymous No.7019432]

I am reading the Stand right now, never read a King book but I'm moving to the other side of the world and didn't want to start something like a Gaddis novel until I've settled in, it really is just awful but it puts me to sleep and sometimes I do want to know what will happen.

I read Island by Aldous Huxley earlier this year too, which might be worse than King.

[Anonymous No.7019840]

>>7019432
King's short stories tend to be be better than his long works.

[Anonymous No.7019852]

[Anonymous No.7019856]

It really is a complete piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.7019866]

>>7019856

Agreed, I have no idea why people say it's so good.

[Anonymous No.7019869]

>>7019852

[Anonymous No.7019936]

>>7016706
maybe, but the movie is goat

[Anonymous No.7020302]

>>7016393
tagobe, op?

[Anonymous No.7020464]

>>7018717
I remember reading a small preview portion of the book. Shit book indeed.

[Anonymous No.7020490]

>>7019866
I'm Brazilian, Paulo Coelho is a fucking joke here, no one know why he sold so much. It's so fucking ridiculous, makes no fucking sense how it happened.

[Anonymous No.7020499]

Scarlet letter was terrible. Granted I read it in high school but I bet it's still shit.

[Anonymous No.7020513]

I only read good books.

[Anonymous No.7020514]

>>7016393
probably taipei

[Anonymous No.7020667]

Jesus Christ this whole book was a train wreck. First 100 pages are all a bunch of irrelevant flashbacks, the last 160 are just Scout bitching and moaning because she learns that things change over time. God Damn. No wonder this book got canned all those years ago

[Anonymous No.7020718]

>>7016654
>>7016669
>>7016684
>>7018831
1. Back to /r/books

2. He rapes his sister, Phoebe

[Anonymous No.7020762]

>>7018764
>having a gf
lucky tbh, I feel like Murakami fans would be cute and empty-headed enough to be fun

[Anonymous No.7020824]

>>7016587

I just read it a few days ago, the introduction talked about how it was "the grandfather (or mother) of Proust, Joyce, etc." because it made the first jumps into personal consciousness or summat

I don't buy it

Reader, I married him.

[Anonymous No.7020839]

>>7016761
Haha, underrated post friend

[Anonymous No.7020860]

>>7019866
In France only plebs praise him, he's a joke for the others

[Anonymous No.7020864]

psshh...nothin personnel...kid...

[Anonymous No.7020886]

>>7019240
But Snooki, the average erect length of a gorilla penis is three centimeters

[Anonymous No.7022191]

>>7018798
This. I would say The Alchemist is by far the worst thing I have ever read.

[Anonymous No.7022385]

>>7016393
>Beigbeder
>vomi.jpeg
mon pauvre pourquoi as tu lu ca ?

[Anonymous No.7022478]

>>7016393
The consumer.
Gira should stick to music tbh

[Anonymous No.7022486]

>>7019866
>much feel good shit

[Anonymous No.7022523]

>>7016393
Gone Girl.

I was stuck at work for a couple hours, bored out of my mind, so I decided to download a book on my phone. I wanted something that doesn't require a whole lot of effort to read, because it's nearly impossible to concentrate in that environment.

Holy shit, it was terrible. Gillian Flynn writes like a depressed 14-year-old girl trying her hardest to be dark and edgy.

[Anonymous No.7023115]

>>7019856
>>7019866
Agreed. Shit book. Alos don't understand why people like it so much. Clinton invited the author to some meeting with other high bosses to discuss the future.
I am told the book is about following your dreams. I didn't get this part.

[Anonymous No.7024949]

>>7018072

>The painted bird
>Steps
>Blind Date

You don't need anything else by Kosinski.

[Anonymous No.7024963]

>>7022523
thoughts on the movie?

i liked seeing nph get garroted, but that's probably because i'm a homophobe

nph is one of those actors that just plays nph, like tom hanks or samuel l jackson

i couldn't get through captain phillips because i kept thinking why the fuck is tom hanks a ship captain

[Anonymous No.7024969]

>>7024963
oh i didn't realize that was posted 14 hours ago

he's probably not in the thread anymore

or she

[Anonymous No.7024972]

>>7016451

Once you've read 'The Travels' by Marco Polo, eating rocks will be a treat.

Never again, my gott

[Anonymous No.7025069]

Infinite Jest.

[Anonymous No.7025301]

>>7018072
Well, you should read Steps, maybe, it was pretty good imo

[Anonymous No.7025311]

>>7025069

Like most people who discard this novel, it seems you have have omitted your reasoning.

Want to explain why you don't like fun?

[Anonymous No.7025328]

>>7024963
>>7024969
Nph plays a boring cultured richboy fixated on his HS crush who turns out to be something of a hyperpossessive maniac. Don't know if that means he's also nph in the movie.

[Anonymous No.7025421]

This piece of trash right here.
First of all it's a short read so there's no chance to fully explore the full backstory and reasoning behind Clifford's unusual coloring or mass. Second of all, the aligorical contexts of the main and secondary events are muddled and obtuse. And while the minimalist art style seems aesthetically pleasing at first, it's continued presence in this manner seems rushed and lackadaisical. The focus is all over the place and the secondary characters seem more like furniture than engaging voices to affect the main character. Having read he series I'm at a loss to find saving graces within the later installments. Whether the rudimentary plots take the reader to the post office or fire station, the climaxes arrive far to prematurely with the end of the book. One would think that by being a story from the western world that the author could at least (if even sparingly) utilize the age old crush of the Monomyth as a template for a crude story arc. But no, this goes right out the window as none of the rules of fine contemporary literature are followed. post modernism should weep for this callous example as it leaves the reader unsatisfied and mystified in its purpose or place on our book shelves.
Dictated not read,
Anon.

[Anonymous No.7025442]

I don't know. Probably some meme books I've started to read from here and quit reading after realizing they were shit memes.

[Anonymous No.7025468]

>>7020864
The ending, where he literally is stationary in a hotel room for 100 pages, is a bit of a let down, but honestly, you didn't even like the early stuff with Boris? That was the bomb, man.