ITT: the worst book you've ever read

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Anonymous Wed Oct 28 19:09:59 2015 No.7295827 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: the worst book you've ever read

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 19:13:47 2015 No.7295845 The Ice Storm. Can't remember the author but it was made into a movie. The book sucked so bad i couldn't finish it. That is the only book to date i never finished.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 19:14:54 2015 No.7295850 the missionary by lady morgan

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 19:16:51 2015 No.7295857 Song of solomon

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 19:21:39 2015 No.7295873 >>7295827 Jane Eyre

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 19:37:59 2015 No.7295939 >>7295827 twilight :D

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 19:39:10 2015 No.7295945 the alchemist

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 19:39:34 2015 No.7295948 >>7295827 Ethan Frome and The Awakening

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 19:42:37 2015 No.7295966 The Communist Manifesto

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 19:42:57 2015 No.7295971 >>7295948 oh fuck i forgot about Ethan Frome. i hate that book more than anything.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 19:43:20 2015 No.7295975 >>7295827 Madame Bovary is pretty awful A Separate Peace is definitely the bottom of the barrel though

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 19:43:35 2015 No.7295977 your favorite book

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 20:00:39 2015 No.7296048 >>7295948 >>7295971 tfw you liked Ethan Frome

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>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 20:03:31 2015 No.7296067 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jesus what a horrid book.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 20:16:54 2015 No.7296122 >>7295977 yuo asshole. yoy fcuking piecce of shit. fuck u

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 20:18:47 2015 No.7296127 Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 20:22:54 2015 No.7296138 >>7296127 >he actually fell for the dfw meme

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 20:26:38 2015 No.7296153 >>7296127 Surely you jest

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 20:27:26 2015 No.7296161 File: 35 KB, 500x500, hatchet-gary-paulsen.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The one school book I disliked enough to actually drop. I had a high enough grade in LA that I would pass no matter how badly I did on the test

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 20:28:14 2015 No.7296165 >>7296161 I loved that one when I was a kid. Still got a bit of survivalist daydreamer in me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 20:31:41 2015 No.7296169 File: 47 KB, 301x499, 51yEYtdaGzL._SX299_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A majority of the EU was shit but this woman wrote like she had never seen two human beings talk to each other, let alone Star Wars.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 20:33:07 2015 No.7296181 File: 61 KB, 376x512, cri_000000151038.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] itt: fussy people Y'all need to learn to be okay with reading non-high-brow reading

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 20:37:55 2015 No.7296196 File: 44 KB, 250x374, Gatsby_1925_jacket.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Garbage. I would de-canonize this pussy if I could

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:10:24 2015 No.7296303 >>7295975 >Madame Bovary is pretty awful Top lel. I'm not a big fan of the book, but you can't read if you didn't see some of its objective qualities. >>7295827 I tried reading I Am Number 4. Then I finally and truly learned how cancerous YA is.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:15:56 2015 No.7296322 Of Mice and Men hands down

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:17:52 2015 No.7296328 The Outsiders

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:22:30 2015 No.7296342 File: 26 KB, 176x250, Fahrenheit_451_1st_ed_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] its at least the worst book that people think is good for some reason

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:24:27 2015 No.7296349 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Literally Reddit, the book

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:26:54 2015 No.7296358 File: 44 KB, 310x500, AmericanGods_MassMarketPaperback_1185415388.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm embarrassed that this rests on my bookshelf.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:29:43 2015 No.7296375 >>7296349 It's about exposing hypocrisy and revealing that we all have a seedy nature. Sounds more like 4chan than up vote land.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:35:08 2015 No.7296393 >>7296196 I'm either eating this bait right the fuck up or you should pretty please deep throat a shotgun. Fuck you nigger. >actually triggered

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:36:19 2015 No.7296398 >>7295948 The Awakening is such a shit book Thank you That is also my answer

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:37:46 2015 No.7296402 >>7295827 Three way tie between The Outsiders Why Us? and A Separate Peace

Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:37:59 2015 No.7296403

>>7295827
Just reread it for the first time since high school (currently 26). I found it to be a terrific book, extremely well-written. Lee explains and connects her ideas in powerful and compelling ways, including the symbolism and references, some more explicit and obvious, others more subtle. Even the psalm that is sung at First Purchase is poignant and brilliantly appropriate in the context.

Why do you hate it so much? Or did I just take some bait?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:40:20 2015 No.7296411 >>7295827 Blut Memeridian or The Eventide Dankness in the Windbag

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:58:43 2015 No.7296472 File: 21 KB, 223x346, howbadcanitget.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Maybe falling for the bait. I read the Spanish translation of this garbage.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 22:32:58 2015 No.7296584 >>7296393 Fitzgerald literally gargled cum for a living. You can tell because every copy is soaked through with his pussyboy juices. I'm so tired of pseudo-intellectuals trying to defend his shit. There is nothing of substance in anything he's written.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 22:41:09 2015 No.7296603 I didn't read a single bad book, thanks to /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 22:43:57 2015 No.7296613 Maybe not the worst in terms of quality and talent but Proust is boring as hell

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 22:44:26 2015 No.7296614 File: 1.78 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7296048 i too like ethan frome, a cozy lil novella

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 05:15:52 2015 No.7297486 Hunters of Dune Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 05:18:49 2015 No.7297491 >>7296358 well why don't you donate it or something? someone else might get it for cheap and enjoy it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 05:45:41 2015 No.7297557 >>7296603 s a m e tbqh

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 05:46:40 2015 No.7297560 >>7296472 I would have to rank the garbage he wrote about Freemasonry as one of the worst books I've ever read.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 05:47:48 2015 No.7297561 >>7297560 The backstory of the villian being a nyphomaniac on a greek island was funny though. And I guess it described a few sights in Washington. Other than that it was pure garbage.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 05:59:44 2015 No.7297586 >>7296306 what? is this book bad? i've read that it is a quite good book and i have been thinking about buying it for some time now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 06:31:46 2015 No.7297643 >>7297586 opinions dude. i love it

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 06:37:54 2015 No.7297650 >>7295827 Catcher in the Rye >I love homosex, I really did you know

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 06:44:53 2015 No.7297658 >>7296342 This tbh

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 07:54:45 2015 No.7297750 File: 159 KB, 499x332, faulkner_sf_book.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >that feeling when it rests on the bookshelf looking prestigious but inside you know it doesnt belong there. I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY THIS IS GOOD

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 08:01:55 2015 No.7297761 The Giver Hatchet Candide

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 08:46:50 2015 No.7297825 stardust I didnt expect a ton from gaiman, but that was turbo lazy hack mode

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 08:59:07 2015 No.7297839 >>7296358 >NYT best-seller >USA Today You can only blame yourself.

>>	OP Thu Oct 29 09:11:16 2015 No.7297857 >>7296306 Get fucked

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 09:12:17 2015 No.7297859 >>7295827 Ready Player One

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 17:25:57 2015 No.7299356 >>7296342 This. I was given this for English and didn't read more than five pages that we did in class. Cheated for a B+.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 17:38:55 2015 No.7299420 >>7297750 Honestly this book is really good. It's pretty tragic, and Quentin's part was very interesting in terms of concepts like time and trying to hold onto the past.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 17:45:25 2015 No.7299446 I know why the caged bird sings. That shit is garbage.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 17:49:13 2015 No.7299454 >>7296342 >>7297658 >>7299356 why?

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>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 17:55:36 2015 No.7299480 >>7296322 came here to post this I don't know whether it's because I dislike steinbeck, or if it's just a god awful book all around.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 19:04:25 2015 No.7299740 >>7297491 There are enough shitty books at Goodwill as it is. And I refuse to take any part in perpetuating this filth.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 19:14:49 2015 No.7299770 Tie between the jungle book and walden

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 19:23:44 2015 No.7299807 >>7295975 A Separate Peace sucks so much dick

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 19:37:27 2015 No.7299862 >>7299478 this

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 20:45:08 2015 No.7300111 catcher in the rye holden is too autistic for me to handle

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 20:49:15 2015 No.7300120 >>7295873 fuck you that book is amazing

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 20:51:50 2015 No.7300127 File: 208 KB, 857x1328, just fucking kill me.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] You all ain't read shit when it comes to bad books.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 20:55:02 2015 No.7300133 I've never been able to get through To The Lighthouse. It's been that long since I last tried that I couldn't even tell you why anymore.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 20:56:14 2015 No.7300134 >>7300127 What did you expect from self help? Might as well post Excel For Dummies.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 20:57:43 2015 No.7300138 >>7300134 At least Excel for Dummies could theoretically help out some dummies. I had to read this shit for a class, and it only helped me into moving that much closer to a bullet in my head.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 21:00:11 2015 No.7300146 >>7296306 Nice b8 m8.

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 22:58:50 2015 No.7300572

>>7299420
Isn't it supposed to be (at least in part) based on Hamlet (or am I mixing it up with another Shakespearean tragedy?)? Faulkner is the next American author I want to become more familiar with after I read some more Hemingway. I enjoyed As I Lay Dying, and I think I would enjoy other works if his if they are similar in style and substance.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 22:59:47 2015 No.7300577 >>7300133 bad taste

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 23:01:28 2015 No.7300587 >>7300133 Picked it up several months ago. Dropped it pretty quick myself. I just wasn't getting anything out of it, and I found the style to be just insufferable.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 23:01:38 2015 No.7300589 for whom the bell tolls

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 23:02:48 2015 No.7300593 >>7300572 Faulkner is probably the best author of prewar American fiction read Light in August, The Sound and the Fury and Absalom Absalom!

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 23:19:32 2015 No.7300663

>>7300577
>my subjective experience is of a higher class than yours

I didn't say the book was terrible, just that I have never been able to finish it. There were things about it that I could see were worth merit but ultimately it wasn't for me. Deal with it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 23:20:56 2015 No.7300667 brave new world

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 06:34:54 2015 No.7301584 File: 163 KB, 947x719, url.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Maybe not the worst ever, but the first book in a long, long time that I can remember simply putting down cause I couldn't take it anymore. The writing is excruciating.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 06:37:53 2015 No.7301589 File: 30 KB, 299x475, FRDMSRNSM2003.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The whole freaking Catteni series.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 07:16:53 2015 No.7301630 ITT: /lit/izens reveal themselves to be the utter plebeians I have long suspected them all of being.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 07:43:08 2015 No.7301668 >>7296303 Yep. Madame Bovary is well written, Flaubert wanted to write a book about nothing : He did great I think.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 07:44:33 2015 No.7301671 Song of Kali by Dan Simmons. Fucking awful.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 07:48:56 2015 No.7301683 File: 26 KB, 262x400, 9780803261204.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I now understand why some people retch at the thought of continental philosophy.

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>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 10:05:48 2015 No.7302030 File: 149 KB, 1536x2304, o-THE-BELL-JAR-facebook.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] utter tripe. if she hadn't killed herself IRL then this book would've been totally forgotten about, and it should've.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 11:05:30 2015 No.7302249 ITT: 11th graders mad that the teacher gave them a C on the reading assignment

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 14:28:45 2015 No.7302905 >>7302249 >projecting

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 14:37:52 2015 No.7302938 >>7302030 poor pleb :(

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 14:43:27 2015 No.7302955 >>7295827 >>7295873 >>7295945 >>7295975 HIGHSCHOOLERS LEAVE GO STUDY FOR YOUR AP CLASSES

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 16:42:39 2015 No.7303376 File: 31 KB, 300x400, large_thePearl_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7295827 I have to think all the way back to middle school because I'm no longer obligated to read a book if its shitty.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 16:45:05 2015 No.7303385 >>7295827 I actually just realized that I have never read a horribly shitty book. Bottom of the barrel are still passable. Those would be Things Fall Apart, The Sun Also Rises, Survivor (Palahniuk) and Status (Erlend Loe).

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 16:45:30 2015 No.7303388 >>7300146 Nice taste sheep

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 16:49:22 2015 No.7303400 >>7303385 Oh yeah, The Alchemist too. That was pretty bad. Narcissistic entitlement disguised as spirituality. Pronoia is nothing but a solipsistic god complex.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 17:31:32 2015 No.7303509 >>7302955 Not a high schooler. I'm in college. I did read Jane Eyre in high school for my AP English though. It's shit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 19:09:40 2015 No.7303814 >>7296306 kill urself :^)

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 19:13:40 2015 No.7303827 >>7296306 >tfw literally my favourite novel I know this is bait but I hope there aren't too many people who unironically dislike this book

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 19:14:51 2015 No.7303832 >>7303814 Sya pleb, pleb. Perhaps one day you'll do some thinking for yourself :^)

Anonymous Fri Oct 30 19:39:14 2015 No.7303917
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>>7295827
I bought this for twenty dollars at an airport, and I appreciate I should have known better to not by Airport Thrillers, but I could have used a simple knock-off Indiana Jones to pass a few flights
>First chapter is %100 utterly mediocre prologue, I know this book will not be great
>By the second chapter DeMille has contrived a reason for the three leads, two male and one female, to all be naked in some ancient ruin "Bath" with inexplicably clean water. DeMille fails to describe the two male leads in any way, skips straight to multiple paragraph physical description of the naked female lead, paragraph ends with both men being erect, and after a single page the young male lead attractively jerks off while staring at her like a serial killer, before ejaculating into the water they're all swimming in.
And by the way the female lead was ostensibly the older male's (not the one that was jerking off) girlfriend, although the two males fuck her back and forth about seven times each throughout the book.
Every time I finished a chapter, I thought to myself "Wow, that was it, that's the nadir. It can't get worse" and it would keep proving me wrong.
Highly recommended.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 19:49:30 2015 No.7303951 Dragonlance, anything by Weis & Hickman. High school sucked

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 19:59:03 2015 No.7303992 >>7302955 >reading Madam Bovary for "Masterpieces of World Lit" course in college >told it's a founding document for Realism >Charles' first wife dies for no good reason 25 pages in okay den

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 20:14:48 2015 No.7304065 >>7303992 Yeah, in real life people who die always have a good reaon.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 20:18:29 2015 No.7304083 >>7296306 This. I never completely understood was Zizek was talking about when he went on about ideology until I read The Brothers Karamazov. If you want to tell people how to live, write a philosophical treatise, not a novel.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 20:18:42 2015 No.7304085 >>7304065 it was complete coincidence and so fast it just didn't make sense. Painted it like she died because she was worried about his parents?? It was just completely silly

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 20:20:01 2015 No.7304096 >>7296613 I think he just doesn't click with some people. To me he's one of the least boring authors I've ever read.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 20:20:16 2015 No.7304098 >>7295827 Ulysses is fucking unreadable, can't believe such pretentious shit is considered a classic.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 20:21:37 2015 No.7304104 >>7304098 one day you'll grow up and feel silly

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 20:23:36 2015 No.7304113 File: 17 KB, 625x626, FB_IMG_1446107612855.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7296306

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 20:25:38 2015 No.7304123 >>7297650 This...

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 22:38:29 2015 No.7304507 >>7301584 I had the same experience. I forced my to continue turning the page for awhile, threw in the towel by around page 20.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 22:59:13 2015 No.7304578 >>7295827 Roxana

Anonymous Fri Oct 30 23:22:32 2015 No.7304647

Nowadays I almost never finish books I don't enjoy. However back when I was in my early teens, when I did finish every book I was handed, there was one, the first in a series, which I absolutely hated and wanted to be over with. It was called Tomorrow, When The War Began and it was about a group of teenagers hiding out in the bush after a foreign power invades Australia.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 23:36:03 2015 No.7304690 I found Candide to be one massive masturbatory sequence by Voltaire to show everyone how clever and witty he was. I doubt that smug frog even cared though.

Anonymous Fri Oct 30 23:51:14 2015 No.7304735

I can't remember the name that's how bad it was, but it was some cliché shit about vampires or something. Girl moves in next to a graveyard or something, then something about a man with "absolutely extraordinary eyes". Couldn't even bother finishing half of it

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:23:09 2015 No.7304841 >>7296358 I actually had to read this shit for high school and I've tried to force out all memory of it. I had completely forgotten I read it until now. Fuck you

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:24:06 2015 No.7304846 >>7304647 As an Australian, I apologise for that experience. It was part of the curriculum when I was in high school. Just awful stuff.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:25:44 2015 No.7304851 >>7304846 Did you also read The Slap? Ozzie HS curriculum is slightly ridiculous

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:27:16 2015 No.7304857 File: 20 KB, 227x346, LMAO RICH PEOPLE ARE SO SHALLOW AND BAD RIGHT LOOK GUYS I'M SO EDGY I'M SO EDGY HAHAHA DO YOU LIKE ME YET GUYS.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:27:51 2015 No.7304860 >>7296342 yes this was very bad

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:27:56 2015 No.7304861

>>7295827
Briar rose

Had to read in it high school. The author is a female, it is about a concentratiom camp amd such, it is factually wrong and terribly written, characters are unrelatable, the story wraps up I 2 pages and to top it off their is gay sex scene

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:29:06 2015 No.7304867 >>7304861 >>>7304861 >the story wraps up I 2 pages and to top it off their is gay sex scene I want Americans to stop posting

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:29:19 2015 No.7304868 >>7300587 >>7300133 stick with it for more than 20 pages and you'll get it lazy spoonfed fucks

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:30:59 2015 No.7304876 File: 652 KB, 1665x2453, catch-22_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I fucking hate the Tim and Eric tier attitude this book has

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:34:48 2015 No.7304887 >>7296358 I like the whole idea behind it but now that I try and remember what happened in the book I draw a massive blank

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:37:24 2015 No.7304892 >>7296584 I want this engraved on the tombstones of my enemies

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:38:28 2015 No.7304897 >>7304876 >hating on Tim and Eric

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:44:47 2015 No.7304914
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>>7296196
Honestly this. If you aren't interested in that time, and you're sick of people telling you why this is such a good piece of art, it fucking sucks. I really do think they need to give kids options in HS lit classes.

E.g., A lot of people I know hate Catcher, but it's the book that made me realize I can be a productive person and do something with my life, instead of being afraid of constantly fucking things up, and not trying anything because of that fear. However, I wouldn't ask someone who has their shit together to enjoy the book.

>pic related is not the worst thing ever, but it's not near as good as people make it out to be...felt like I wasted a month reading it

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:45:43 2015 No.7304917 >>7304851 Didn't read it in high school. I have read it though. Bit rubbish, but not all bad. There's not much in the way of Aussie lit for high schools though. All I can think of is Oscar and Lucinda and A Fortunate Life.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:47:41 2015 No.7304924 >>7304897 Not my thing, I might actually go back and try it out again, I've gained a little appreciation for irony after enjoying Finnegan's Wake

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:54:30 2015 No.7304937 >>7304867 Fuck off kike

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:55:12 2015 No.7304939 >>7304868 So many assumptions. See my previous response here: >>7300663

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:57:03 2015 No.7304950
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>>7304851
>>7304917
>The Slap
Greatest/Only Australian contribution to any medium of entertainment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm_niiQfeWc
>tfw I saw this and thought it was some comedy
>google and find out it's a 4serious drama based on a dumb book
I don't know what the hell they were thinking, but I'm glad they were.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 00:57:37 2015 No.7304951 I think any books shown in this video will fill that quota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoTZcrtFXsY

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 01:13:26 2015 No.7304996 >>7304914 holy shit, that's one of my favorite books. like ever. :(

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 01:13:31 2015 No.7304998 >>7304950 But anon, this is a parody of the show. It's intentionally funny. Literally one kid gets slapped one time. That's it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 01:15:03 2015 No.7305007 File: 683 KB, 960x720, reddit pepe.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7304914 >tfw ex-gf recommended East of Eden to me as her favorite book Fuck you, ho, this thing sucks and you were a pleb.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 01:28:51 2015 No.7305065

>>7304998
I know it's a parody, but it's also an advertisement for it.
As in, this is the thing that is supposed to draw in an audience based on what's shown.
Somewhere there was a bunch of bro Aussies gearing up for a comedy night from this funny thing they saw on TV and getting a completely straight-faced drama before one of them switches the channel after ten minutes of awkward silence.

Also I forgot Mad Max, I guess Mad Max was pretty significant Australian contribution

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 01:33:54 2015 No.7305081
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>>7304996
you liked all the foreshadowing, over-the-top judeo-christian imagery (or Jungian if you aint cucked m8), and stereotype reversals?

>Huehuehue, me speak very little english mr. trask

>Ret me get you summ tea, okie okie?

>It's all an act Mr. Hamilton, I actually can articulate myself very well in English, but I choose not to, in order to not unsettle social expectation. Oh yeah, btw, I like to smoke opium and do philosophy with all the other old Chinese guys, that's not a bad stereotype tho lol, ty Johnny!

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 01:38:47 2015 No.7305091 The Pearl Half Blood Prince Beloved >>7297761 Damnit, Candide is wonderful.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 11:26:35 2015 No.7305890 >>7296472 This is actually one of his better books. Still dumb as hell but its fun and basically everything you could want from an airport novel.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 11:57:16 2015 No.7305948 >>7304083 Zizek has never said anything substantive even once.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 12:02:32 2015 No.7305956

>>7305081
idk man, I just remember being enthralled for the entire 3 or 4 weeks it took me to read this. It might not be the most subtle novel or aspire to anything new or experimental or whatever, but I loved how it felt like I was reading an american mythos spanning generations.

I may be a pleb, but it was the moments where the narrator (Steinbeck himself? or some literary alternate Steinbeck) shares that anecdote about his mother selling the war bonds and getting the free military plane ride, or the opening chapters where he describes the geological history of the Salinas valley; I ate that shit up. And I did like how the 'timshel'/Cane and Abel story tied everything together. But it's cool m8, I don't pretend to have the best (or even good) taste in literature, and there's still so so many books that I haven't had the chance to read and even more that I've probably never heard of.

My best to you and yours, and I wish you not only a good day, but good luck in your future /lit/ (and non /lit/) endeavors.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 12:11:22 2015 No.7305977 >>7296358 >>7304887 Same here. I read it years ago and the only things I remember are that some of the Egyptian gods were morticians and that they all visited Rock City.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 12:25:11 2015 No.7306003 >>7305081 Not the guy you're replying to, but yeah, I did. I really did. I found it profound, amusing, tragic, captivating and beautiful. Racial stereotypes aren't problematic to me.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 12:27:50 2015 No.7306008 The Name Of The Wind

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 13:28:06 2015 No.7306168 >>7304914 is this a fucking joke?

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 13:38:55 2015 No.7306201
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>>7305956
>>7306003
>>7306168

EoE guy here.

I seriously think that the last 200-300 pgs. of this book are inexcusable. Sure, Steinbeck does some beautiful things with landscape and familial story-telling in the first half of the book, but Joe Valery, Kate, and Aron are some of the flattest characters I've ever read. Maybe there is someone as stupid as Joe that has existed, but Kate and Aron simply cannot exist in the real-world, especially not when this is a fiction that Steinbeck is constantly reminding us is interwoven with reality.

I almost didn't read the last 80 or so pages, because I knew as soon as they have that scene with the recruiters, our whiny twin is dead.

If you can justify the last third of that book, or even try to reason to me that the first two-thirds of that book can make up for it, please try, otherwise, stay keked and stop putting this book in the top 10 of the /lit/ books poll.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 13:42:11 2015 No.7306213 >>7306201 EoE guy again, the chart above just goes to show how much more pleb this board is now. This list is from 2013? EoE is #37 on this chart. IIRC it was somewhere between 8-15 on the current top 100, fucking inexcusable /lit/.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 15:51:24 2015 No.7306552
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>>7295827
I'm actually quite into Buddhism and general eastern philosophy but this book really rubbed me the wrong way. I gave up about 60 pages in. The main protagonist is not at all relatable and begins as this "great guy" respected and loved by everyone.. give me a break. Literally vomit inducing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 18:25:10 2015 No.7306964 >>7306552 i gave up around that much in but out of boredom. literally nothing happening

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 22:24:19 2015 No.7307624 >>7304104 Hopefully not

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 00:16:27 2015 No.7307884 >>7304096 I don't think he's boring at all either. I like the way he catches daydreaming to paper. Maybe you have to be someone who daydreams all the time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 04:28:07 2015 No.7308371 Atlas Shrugged

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 04:33:23 2015 No.7308383 >>7295827 >implying TKAM isn't top-tier You're actually so fucking retarded, OP. Tell me how it's the worst book you've ever read.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 04:36:30 2015 No.7308394 Catcher in the Rye. I fucking hated Holden. What a whiny little bitch.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 04:48:02 2015 No.7308410 >>7296584 I honestly think that's the point, old sport.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 05:27:33 2015 No.7308465 >>7296358 Honestly, it was a pretty enjoyable read. But holy fuck, Gaiman, you're not a edgy goth in the 80's anymore, Shadow is a cringey as fuck name for your MC. Also, the ending shit itself completely.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 06:49:51 2015 No.7308597 Anything John Green Jesus Christ his pretentious faux-intellectual style pisses me off so much

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 06:54:50 2015 No.7308605 >>7295945 The only non meme answer here.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 07:16:42 2015 No.7308648 >>7296303 I recognize the writing and certain elements, but I have never in my life read something so dull and pointless.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 07:20:56 2015 No.7308658 >>7306213 That list is from 6 months ago by Aaron D. It's a better list, but less of a representative because people got to vote any number of times so much of it is skewed.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 11:18:26 2015 No.7309245 Infinite jest, I can't understand why people like it so much. Absolute rubbish

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 11:20:07 2015 No.7309248 >>7295945 i loved this book :{. I did did hate to kill a mocking bird

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 11:21:14 2015 No.7309253 Mrs dalloway is the one that made me the angriest

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 11:24:21 2015 No.7309258 >>7304917 There's so much good Aussie kids literature though :( Iron mountain, the nargun and the stars. Why is it always shitty John Marsden

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 16:48:50 2015 No.7310153 Catcher in the Rye. Jude the Obscure. VALIS.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 21:27:59 2015 No.7311254 >>7303992 Retard.

Anonymous Sun Nov 1 21:49:41 2015 No.7311364

>>7295827
>>7295873
>>7295975
>>7296196
>>7296306
>>7296342
>>7297650
>>7300111
>>7300133
>>7300589
>>7300667
>>7304098
>>7304690
>>7304857
>>7304914

Why does /lit/ consider itself intelligent again? What I'm getting here is that you basically all just read Gravity's Rainbow, Finnegans Wake, and Infinite Jest then used that as an excuse to not appreciate ANY OTHER LITERARY MOVEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 21:51:20 2015 No.7311373 >>7311364 to be fair, you linked maybe 2 or 3 great books

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 21:55:03 2015 No.7311392 >>7311373 if you dont think ulysses, to the lighthouse, madame bovary, and candide at least are great ur a pleb

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 21:58:32 2015 No.7311410 >>7311392 I'll give you To The Lighthouse and add Catcher In The Rye. I havent read Madame Bovary or Jane Eyre Candide and Ulysses are fun to read and might afford studying but I'm pressed to say great

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 21:59:29 2015 No.7311416 >>7311410 lol a guy who hasnt read madame bovary thinks he has opinions

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 22:03:26 2015 No.7311438 "The Giver" was so bad. IT WAS SO BAD.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 22:04:50 2015 No.7311447 >>7311416 lol at a guy who has this opinion saying anything at all

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 22:06:02 2015 No.7311454 A fucking community college professor made me read a fucking ayn rand book for class. It was called Anthem, I believe. Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway fuck you), it was a fucking steaming pile of fucking shit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 22:07:01 2015 No.7311460 >>7311447 you haven't read madame bovary leave /lit/

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 22:07:45 2015 No.7311465 >>7296306 get fucked

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 23:50:47 2015 No.7311841 >>7305065 >implying Danger 5 isn't one of the best mini-series ever made S2 is worse than S1, but it's still fucking great.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 23:52:08 2015 No.7311847 >>7311460 it's shit pleb faggot lrn2taste before spouting your mouth like a cunt

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 00:06:51 2015 No.7311881 File: 144 KB, 502x794, XIiaPmU.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7302030

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 00:17:51 2015 No.7311914 >>7296342 Nah nah, brae brae. Taste is objective and you are dumb.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 00:21:18 2015 No.7311924 Great Gatsby is essential. /lit/ just hates it because it's not inaccessible.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 00:22:56 2015 No.7311928 >>7311392 >>>7311364 >those memes Ulysses is obviously an incredible achievement. But it's hardly a real book. It's a mockery. Portrait was miles better. To the Lighthouse....okay fine. Candide? Voltaire is shit. Madame Bovary. Also shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 00:32:10 2015 No.7311952 File: 1.57 MB, 580x433, 1377082314193.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7297839 >jewyork time best-seller

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 00:40:29 2015 No.7311972 >>7311928 >Ulysses is obviously an incredible achievement. But it's hardly a real book. It's a mockery. >Portrait was miles better. Jesus Christ.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 00:53:58 2015 No.7311991 >>7311928 How is Ulysses a mockery? What's it a mockery of?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 00:59:42 2015 No.7312001 File: 83 KB, 900x600, fallout_equestria___dust_jackets_by_whatpayne-d5md07w.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 01:01:33 2015 No.7312005 >>7312001 It's still fucking funny that it actually got published

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 01:05:21 2015 No.7312016 >>7311972 not him but Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, while contestably serious works of art in their own rite, could really be read as satire of high modernism and heavy symbolism a trademark of literary fiction at the time

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 01:07:45 2015 No.7312020 File: 29 KB, 333x499, 41E2ea3d1iL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7312005 Well, pic related is available on amazon right now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 01:23:37 2015 No.7312064 File: 87 KB, 510x680, {90150818-72BA-430A-966F-8E15BF679706}Img100.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] uncle orson has shit out some terrible fiction in his time

Anonymous Mon Nov 2 01:36:43 2015 No.7312093

>>7306552
Ok, same poster here. I forced myself to finish this book tonight. The last 30 pages or so were actually pretty decent and tied the whole thing together nicely. I still have to say that I don't enjoy his writing style very much and I thought the characters were pretty weak. Decent message but poor delivery.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 01:46:46 2015 No.7312118 File: 63 KB, 547x692, 1440033262680.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7312001 >those actually got published >professional covers >stealing two different IPs from two different companies >no one has stopped this Fan Fiction was a mistake

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 01:47:48 2015 No.7312121 >>7299740 It's really not that bad.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 01:54:50 2015 No.7312132 >>7304647 I read that whole damn series, it was tragic. fuken Marsden

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 02:11:09 2015 No.7312152 >>7296306 Memes

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 02:12:26 2015 No.7312153 >>7296306 >>7296393 >actually believing that American Lit has any merit whatsoever What a dumbfuck

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 02:13:58 2015 No.7312158 File: 40 KB, 304x483, 1379732821555.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7311454 >yfw it's her best work

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 02:58:50 2015 No.7312239 File: 79 KB, 304x500, 61-85cZrr-L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7295827 Expected something good after reading -and loving- Journey to the Center of the Earth. Extremely boring and annoying.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 03:18:33 2015 No.7312274 >>7312153 >Hasn't read Melville OH BOY

Anonymous Mon Nov 2 03:36:56 2015 No.7312314
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>>7296358
Dat Shadow
Dat Evil Odin
Dat Plot
That book was a fucking train wreck and I should have stopped at that god awful opening with prison and meeting Loki or some shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 04:18:37 2015 No.7312395 missionary by lady morgan

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 06:41:24 2015 No.7312586 Ham on Rye

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 07:49:44 2015 No.7312657 Hellen Kellers Diary its a real book about a blind, deaf and dumb woman who wrote letters all day Worst book i've ever read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 08:04:03 2015 No.7312672 >>7312657 How would Hellen Keller even know what a book is?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 08:17:09 2015 No.7312693 >>7312586 i thought it was ok

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 08:23:31 2015 No.7312704 >>7312693 it wasn't

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 08:25:07 2015 No.7312707 Island by Aldous Huxley. The part where they rewrite Oedipus Rex as a New-Agey-self-help guide made me want to shoot myself.

Anonymous Mon Nov 2 08:46:11 2015 No.7312729
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You don't know shit.
This whole trilogy is the worst kind of YA shit, but pic related makes the immeasurable pile of feces that was Mockingjay feel like masterpiece in comparison. I'm not saying this lightly, it is THAT bad.
>>7296472
>>7296358
>>7297859
these are valid answers too

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 11:27:49 2015 No.7313067 This whole thread just went to hell http://i.imgur.com/2BALvKW.gif

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 11:49:24 2015 No.7313110 The Alienist

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 14:45:02 2015 No.7313523 Every Day

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 14:47:14 2015 No.7313529 >>7313067 >imgur Go home Reddit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 15:26:07 2015 No.7313610 >>7297750 just ordered this. I hope you're wrong lol

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 17:25:25 2015 No.7313935 >>7295827 La Fuerza de Sheccid. Fuck Carlos Cuhautémoc.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 17:30:23 2015 No.7313956 >>7313610 He couldn't be more wrong

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 17:33:01 2015 No.7313958 >>7313529 name a more convenient image host

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 18:04:42 2015 No.7314124 the 40 laws of power by robert greene

Anonymous Mon Nov 2 18:05:17 2015 No.7314130
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>>7313067
>on an image board
>links to Imgur
This is an imageboard you pleb, not to mention the gif you posted comes in sizes small enough to fit on 4chan
Turbopleb
>>7313958
http://postimage.org/

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 18:14:55 2015 No.7314180 >>7295845 The movie was excellent, at least. Good example of shit lit that made for fantastic cinema.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 19:50:20 2015 No.7314615 >>7313110 >top pleb

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 00:14:38 2015 No.7315579 It's 48 You stupid fucking faggot piece of shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 00:25:02 2015 No.7315606 >>7314130 You sure got him! Veteran 4chan user!

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 00:30:28 2015 No.7315621 >>7296306 Were the other books you read Don Quixote, Madam Bovary, The Sound and the Fury and In Search of Lost Time?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 00:31:55 2015 No.7315626 >>7300127 I agree. The movie was mint though

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 00:36:22 2015 No.7315633 Bleeding Edge. I had to put it down because I was annoyed. (Actually it probably wasn't the worst; just the first that came to mind.)

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 00:36:50 2015 No.7315635 >>7311364 What literary movement involves whinging incessantly about first -world problems?

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 00:42:00 2015 No.7315641

>>7315633
Ha. I wanted to get into Pynchon and the dust-jacket gave me the impression of some Gibsonesque type thing. I took it out at the downtown library, read 15 pages on the train and returned it at a suburban outlet not even an hour later. It just feels tacky to namedrop real brands every couple paragraphs.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 00:59:08 2015 No.7315665 >>7311991 Your pendantry

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 04:18:48 2015 No.7316048 Wuthering Heights

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 07:57:21 2015 No.7316335 >>7296127 >>7309245 Fuck all of you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 10:17:28 2015 No.7316570 >>7312657 Is this real? Must be hilarious, I'm buying it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 10:20:37 2015 No.7316576 >>7295827 Heart of Darkness

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 10:36:36 2015 No.7316608 >>7316576 I will sodomize your dad you fuck

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 10:40:20 2015 No.7316619 >>7316608 kind of like reading the book reddit

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 10:41:04 2015 No.7316621 >>7295827 Your diary desu

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 15:45:58 2015 No.7317374 >>7295945 this

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 16:07:02 2015 No.7317415 File: 64 KB, 371x574, JohnSteinbeck_TheGrapesOfWrath.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7295827 By far this. Absolutely worst book I've ever read in my life by an absolutely massive margin.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 16:34:54 2015 No.7317525 The Hobbit

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 17:14:52 2015 No.7317698 The Reader by Schlink. My God.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 18:01:44 2015 No.7318142 >>7295873 At least you didn't say Great Expectations. That would be a reddit-tier response.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 18:02:49 2015 No.7318151 >>7296342 Either this or anything written by Kurt Vonnegut.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 18:30:45 2015 No.7318339 >>7318151 What the fuck do you know? What could you possibly have against Vonnegut? Have you read one of his books in entirety? Did your highschool English teacher make you read Slaughterhouse 5 and you barely paid attention to it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 18:31:54 2015 No.7318350 >>7295827 The Sound and the Fury Real, unbiased answer: some shitty steampunk book

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 18:54:09 2015 No.7318511 >>7295827 Sense and Sensibility Twain was right

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 18:55:37 2015 No.7318522 >>7318339 I like Vonnegut and all , but he isn't the fucking genius people make him out to be. His books aren't aging very well. Also I am not that anon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 19:03:00 2015 No.7318549 >>7315621 nah

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 19:29:26 2015 No.7318630

>>7318522
You don't have to be a genius to be a good author. However, I do think he has a great style and very smart writing. I don't see any reason for someone to think that any of his books are bad enough to be "the worst thing they've ever read". Especially with most of the shit that gets published

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 19:43:31 2015 No.7318669 Princess of Cleves Hunger Games Series Harry Potter Series Lord of the Flies Pride and Prejudice

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 19:52:40 2015 No.7318718 Jude the Obscure

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 21:23:16 2015 No.7319125 Hard Times by Dickens The novel instilled in me a passionate hate of the fucking sentimentalist cunt.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 21:24:49 2015 No.7319134 the bible

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 21:27:37 2015 No.7319152 File: 76 KB, 600x868, tangerineCover1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 21:28:41 2015 No.7319161 >>7295873 >>7295975 >>7296053 >>7296196 >>7296306 >>7300133 >>7304857 >>7311410 >>7312016 >>7316048 >>7318718 People who need to be taken outside and shot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 21:29:11 2015 No.7319162 File: 55 KB, 290x450, chuck.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This utter, utter piece of fucking dogshit.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 00:50:06 2015 No.7319879

>>7312729
I believe you. I had the pleasure of having that piece of skat movie displayed in the main displays of a Montevideo-Madrid flight (twelve hours, for reference) and my eyes couldn't believe the crap. For sure the book it came from must be worse.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 00:54:17 2015 No.7319891 >>7296196 This. Maybe the worst insult I can give a book: I don't remember it. I have some vague impression that it was set in 1930s America, there was a bridge, and someone named Daisy. Honourable mention to Waves by Virginia Woolf

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 01:09:15 2015 No.7319936 File: 502 KB, 1277x1757, 1419997038747.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7297750 fuck you >>7313610 it's great in my top 10 maybe even top 5

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 01:11:47 2015 No.7319943 >>7319161 >if its old and popular then its good Granted a few of those guys are way off

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 01:33:45 2015 No.7319988 >>7296402 I wrote "finny dies" on the first page of every copy of A Separate Peace I could find back in high school

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 02:18:05 2015 No.7320095 >>7295827 Night Film by Marisha Pessl legit awful

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 02:27:36 2015 No.7320105

>>7318630
I mean that he isn't as great as many percieve him to be. Many of his satirical comments in Slaughter House 5, Cats Cradle and God Bless Mr. Goldwater ( all the Vonnegut I've read) are very fun books, but beyond that the way they have aged is detrimental to the work in my opinion. So that alone shows how Vonnegut could be easily hated by others who can't appreciate Vonnegut's dark humor. I am too intoxicated to really care if this makes any sense

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 02:42:49 2015 No.7320151

>>7296161
Jesus Fuck, Margaret Atwood's assertions on what Canadian Lit was about basically ruined my time in high-school; if Hatchet wasn't on the reading list, it was some copy of the same thing. The main reason I like Lord of the Flies so much is that it was the one piece of survival literature assigned to me that basically tore all the others to pieces.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 02:43:36 2015 No.7320154 >>7320105 I don't see how his work aged

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 02:47:27 2015 No.7320163 I hated Candide White Noise Crying of Lot 49 Cat's cradle I fucking hate pomo and cheap pamphlets.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 02:52:44 2015 No.7320175

>>7296358
It's populist pap, fine, but it's nowhere near as bad as /lit/ makes it out to be. It's basically a Neil Gaiman comic book put into written longform, and that's not a jab at it, the comic book he writes is enjoyable; it's just not in the right place.

Shadow IS a bad name, but reading it so frequently helps hammer home the idea that it's a pseudonym, and not one that he wanted. He's such an intentionally passive protagonist that really he shouldn't have a name at all, but in a third person story, an obviously fake name is the second best option.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 06:19:23 2015 No.7320463 >>7296196 >>7304914 tfw you just read Gatsby and now have to read Catcher in the Rye for your class

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 06:59:45 2015 No.7320529 Swann's Way. Oh, I'm so gay and french and sensitive.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 08:34:46 2015 No.7320660

>>7315641

you fucked up on every level possible

always finish the book
never start an author who's been publishing for the majority of your parent's lives with a book he wrote two years ago
never drop the book for an arbitrary reason, especially one that has to do with a single aspect of a work, more especially when that aspect is central to the theme of the text
avoid public transportation

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>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 08:56:18 2015 No.7320699 >>7318669 >Harry Potter Series Who hurt you?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 09:17:26 2015 No.7320729 >>7299478 fuck you got against goldfinch

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 09:20:58 2015 No.7320732 File: 29 KB, 241x346, 51E-lPPSn2L._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this fucking waste of everything possibly connected to it if I were a tree and ended up as this book I'd be fucking furious

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 09:22:14 2015 No.7320734 >>7320732 I hope you're still in high school and reeling from an essay assignment that got in the way of your Cheetos and xbox

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 09:34:35 2015 No.7320758 File: 19 KB, 267x400, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The drop by Dennis Lehane First time I liked a movie more than the book. And the movie wasn't exceptional either.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 14:07:19 2015 No.7321393 >>7295827 Either Atlas Shrugged or Harry Potter, not sure what bored me more at this point.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 16:30:05 2015 No.7321728 >>7320734 This is exactly what he is. Underageb&

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 16:41:47 2015 No.7321765
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>>7311841
I wouldn't say S2 is worse. I think the Johnny Hitler episode is one of the best of the whole series. I've used it to convince friends to give the whole show a try and it's worked every time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 16:57:22 2015 No.7321815 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 17:01:27 2015 No.7321831 >>7320660 Shut up

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 17:04:33 2015 No.7321843 File: 76 KB, 1030x572, d52.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7321765 S2 is great. I don't get people who insist on one over the other.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 18:02:46 2015 No.7321982 File: 39 KB, 220x340, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I still can't believe I read the whole shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 19:45:38 2015 No.7322325 [posts lit-canon book I was forced to read in high school]

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 20:30:28 2015 No.7322446 >>7319161 It's just Hardy at his tested and true wharfing up hairballs of maudlin misfortune. "Because we were too menny" give me a fucking break. Also Hardy is my English pep-pep's favorite author. We all hate my English pep-pep.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 21:09:54 2015 No.7322606 File: 36 KB, 270x360, 1q84.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pushed myself through 800 pages of this garbage. Possibly the most hollow 1300-page book that you will ever find.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 21:41:09 2015 No.7322732 The world of NullA. How this hack influenced Dick is beyond me.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 21:51:44 2015 No.7322762

>>7306552
The point is that everything was going for him but he wasn't satisfied with that. Yes he's a bit "perfect" but part of it is that he has the potential to essentially achieve enlightenment, unlike his friend Govinda who is a follower without the potential to see the world with perception on the level of the Buddha, Siddhartha, or the Ferryman.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 21:55:16 2015 No.7322768

>>7312158
>>yfw it's her best work
Is that fucking true? I read Anthem while restructuring my dystopian literature teaching unit and it was so bad that I almost made my students read it purely to mock it next to 1984 and Brave New World. It's the worst sort of baby's-first-dystopia. Way worse than The Giver. She essentially just ripped off "We" like crazy and took out all of the originality of it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 22:14:16 2015 No.7322825 File: 89 KB, 331x500, The_Book_Thief_by_Markus_Zusak_book_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Fuck this shit so hard, I could go on all day about everything that makes it a terrible book.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 22:27:36 2015 No.7322884 >>7322768 Anthem is Atlas Shrugged minus the complete Romantic overblown trash but yes, it is a complete ripoff of We

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 22:29:07 2015 No.7322892 >>7295945 I haven't even read it, but sometimes I read the quotes on goodreads when I feel like irritating myself

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 23:19:08 2015 No.7323069 Tom Clancy Endwar

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 01:03:38 2015 No.7323375 >>7296169 Oh my god I forgot how shit she is wow thanks anon jesus christ

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 01:13:31 2015 No.7323404 I'm a Spanish native speaker and read this book in spanish obviously, "Diablo guardián" by Xavier Velasco, but i think the translation (if it exists) is even worse.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 01:54:48 2015 No.7323497 >>7296169 Was that the one with the bugs they'd absorb through their skin?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 01:57:11 2015 No.7323499 >>7301584 That little note in the corner is beautiful.

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