Life of Pi

This book is overrated garbage. I'm sick of this fucking shit getting pawned off as some kind of artistic masterpiece.

What didn’t you like about it then?

it's oprah reading

Shit like this:
>Impressive enough to make you, as the old man said, believe in God . . . Martel has hit on a marvellous notion and reveals in elaborating it - Scotsman
>Every page offers something of tension, humanity, surprise or even ecstasy - The Times
Partly the godawful pretentious hype surrounding it. The entire book is just really weirdly written. Pandering "haha how silly non-theists must be for being so rational", as in, the author literally uses the word "rational" and then tries to play that off as a bad thing. Also, Pi just comes across as extremely irritating and edgy and stupid. None of the characters are particularly likeable and some of the """""chapters""""" are literally like 6 lines or less.

What are some other essential normalfagcore novels?

-Harry Potter
-The Hobbit (if you are patient enough for the stupidly long descriptions of literally everything)
-The Book Thief/The Messenger

i mean if you're gonna go down this path, you have to bash nearly everything the normies ever did, said, created, or believed in. it's a big can of worms ya know?
all you can really do is not give your money for a copy of the book, that's really it

Ulysses.

I read it when I was 14. I just remember the book being okay for a young adult novel but the ending killed the whole thing.

Like, the whole book was symbolic I guess, but the author explained at the end how none of it happened and how all the animals and shit were just symbols for people and none of the shit actually happened. If you have to explain the symbolism explicitly in the final chapter, that is a sign that your writing isn't good.