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Were you never forced to read anything in High-school or middle school?
The fuck is that???

Blood Meridian.

A Farewell to Arms

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the only book i've ever dropped halfway without intending to read it again? sartre's "nausea."

what a horrible book

That is not very nice, user.

about a priest that turned atheist, and talks about shit

This

Checked.

I could not make it through chapter 1 of Fifty Shades... The narration was so so bad. None of the sentences harmonized. The characters never expressed complex thought. Nor did the author. I hate E.L. James.

Turtles all the way down

Divirgent.

Yes, I read divirgent.

Some former friend told me it was good.

Said friend was a faggot too.

Just a library pull that I regretted. Made it to maybe chapter three.
It was like a new age Isaac Asimov

Unironically Dune

the world building was very cool but the writing was so god fucking awful and Paul was such a boring characterless Mary Sue

"Paul knew by the way so-and-so wiped his nose that he was trained in the ways of such-and-such"

...oh, DID he?

Twilight really was dreadful

>4.6 on goodreads
Makes me want to kill all normies.

Your post

I have learned that anything below a 3.0 or above a 3.9 on goodreads is actually shit. All the great novels have scores of about 3.6 to 3.9

>It was a simple plan. She would help him pass algebra. He would help her win the student election. What could go wrong?

Interesting, now that I think about it you might be right.

Anna Karenina, War and Peace and the vast majority of Dostoevskij's works are above 4.0

anything and everything by pynchon, pomo was a mistake

When you misuse the word "pretentious", it's a dead giveaway that you're not very intelligent. Find your own way to criticize shit, stop hiding behind reddit's choice phrases. Ulysses is so far from pretentious that I'm positive you've never read it.

It's still the greatest children's novel of all time.

Cum e? O tot vad pe fb, spune-mi cat de nasoala e inainte sa cedez si sa o cumpar din curiozitate.

Nevermind. Solaris has a 4 star rating. I'd say my deduction was still accurate though.

If it's anything below, it's probably self-published fanfiction garbage. If it's above that score, it's too good to be true, and probably beloved by normies.

This

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>school
>analyse the extract from the beginning of the book
>first line "Hale knew they meant to murder him"
>read through, conclude that Hale is being chased by someone and is terrified
>'his bitten nails', 'nervous temperament'
>"No user, him thinking that he is being murdered is a metaphor for being in a large crowd
[his job is to be spotted in public: people win money if they see him and say a certain phrase holding the newspaper he works for]
>can't refute because I only have the extract
>week later get a copy
>Hale is literally murdered in the next chapter

It also reads like trash. Antagonist has constant mood swings. Protagonist is a 'women who wants to stop evil and has large breasts'.

>Solaris
You're my type of nigga.

My friend who considers himself intelligent told me this is the best book he ever read. What do I think of him now?

I used the word "pretentious" just fine. Secondly, I've never used reddit. You can believe I read the book or not. It's no skin off my nose, butthurt faggot.

If you have always been in a position to read exactly the kind of books you want to at a moments notice, you have led an extremely boring life with ridiculous amounts of comforts.

On topic: plethora of very poor detective novels and and some extremely shitty teen romance novels. I've spent 1,5 years of my life on sea and i've travelled abroad a lot... and i lived majority of my childhood in a place where we could visit library maybe once or twice a month. Shittiest books that i've paid for though? The Night Angel trilogy, i very rarely blindly order books without reading couple pages first but i was on my fantasy phase back then and it came highly recommended by friend so i ordered them... worst buyers remorse i have ever experienced, genuinely awful set of books.

Kill him by shoving the entire Kingkiller Trilogy down his throat page by page like in the movie The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.

How about you defend in what way you think that it is pretentious?

>butthurt faggot
i think you accidentally commented on Veeky Forums instead of youtube

Please explain what pretentious means to you and how that applies to Ulysses. There are definitely ways to criticize the work, but that's not one of them. You're clearly not very intelligent, so I expect you to hide behind more cookie-cutter responses, but I'm genuinely interested in seeing you attempt to back yourself up.

No he didn't!

SARTRE BTFO

when you make posts like this it's a dead giveaway that you have autism

>How about you defend in what way you think that it is pretentious?
I didn't force myself to read the entire thing, I had no need to and I didn't enjoy it, and I'm not going to write an essay. I have other things to do. However, I will just say this: the story wasn't very interesting to me, to say the least, and it just seemed designed to impress by alluding to other works and having an experimental style (which didn't flow very well). Joyce goes on to do this to a much greater degree from what I've seen of Finnegan's Wake, but that's already pretty well known. That's my take, subjective or not. I guess I don't really care much for modernism in general, though. Anyone is free to disagree.

>i think you accidentally commented on Veeky Forums instead of youtube
If you say so.

>You're clearly not very intelligent
That's probably just you projecting.

same

I used to read D&D and Star Wars EU novels all the time as a kid, I'm sure some of those are probably objectively the worst. I still pick one up every now and then though, because I still like D&D and Star Wars. It's whatever.

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. Biggest fucking garbage I've ever layed my eyes upon.

Ok woah woah woah. I liked it. Why did you hate it?

me but with the Naruto LNs

Sherlock Holmes. Whatever the first book is.

I read it because a girl told told me it was her favourite book. I didn't even tell her I read it. Hated it. A complete lack of discernible talent.

i think speaking in romanian is banable so ->
he speak about very vulgar about this subject

It's a little messy but I had a hell of a fun time reading it when I was younger. I'd say it got me back into reading

Oh yeah? Want to explain why or maybe say something original? I'm willing to bet that you can't.

Anti-Oedipus is purposely obtuse psychobabble used to conceal the fact that the authors had nothing to say.

Read it again after you've read at least 100 books of literature in your entire life.

So if someone reads a ton of YA fiction and lowbrow bestsellers it suddenly becomes perfect? Hardly a convincing argument, user.

Sperg-tastic post, user! You fit right in

This was good, but not near as good as its fans believe. It has good worldbuilding but bad character.s

Stranger in a strange land

What were people taking in the 60's that they thought this was good?

holy fucking dunning kruger plebs

jesus

you're all dumb

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V, without a doubt. Didn't enjoy it one bit.

Stranger in a strange land was awesome when I was a kid. But last time I read it was 8 years ago. . .

Thanks mate.

What's wrong with the scarlet letter

Great expectations
Nicholas nickleby
Brothers Karamazov

>Brothers Karamazov is bad
Explain yourself

Ghastly rigmarole

MUD

TOWN

It's just a half assed plot used as an excuse to present quarter assed and undercooked observations on society and religion and philosophy.

And of course if I call it boring then people will claim it's not meant to be enjoyed. It's a serious source of "profound psychological and philosophical insights". And if I point out how trivial and dumbed down and lazy these alleged insights are, people will say, "No, it's not serious, it's hilarious vaudeville!"
Ffs, it had a section where a lazy 10 year old tries unsuccessfully to praise socialism. How lazy can Dostoevsky get?

In addition, but not Dostoevsky's fault, you can't read books like this without realising that the pseudo intellectuals who praise it so much wouldn't give a single shit about it if it was released today. They would even dismiss it solely due to it being a serialisation.

Why?

It's not like it it's been hailed as one of the greatest novels of all times since its publiction by a lot of people

Junkie by William S Burroughs, funny thing is I've never disliked a book so much while reading it that I made a vow to never read any more of his stuff. By chance I met a guy who was doing a doctorate in literature or something and he really praised this guy highly so maybe I'll give him another try some day.

probably this I guess

>good worldbuilding
No it wasn't, it was inconsistent as fuck. Rothfuss makes magic so simple that a literal child can do it after only a few sessions of practice, but at the same time the common people of his world treat magic like something that's confined to fairy tales. Where are the magic-powered guns and cars? Why doesn't their whole world run on magic?

Fucking Harry Potter had more consistent lore than this shit.

Lord of the Flies.
Its reputation is a big reason why.
The most fucking boring pile of shit I have ever read. And this guy apparently wanted it to be realistic? your fucking joking me if thats true then jesus christ. His plot is so so boring, I heard an interview of his (since I studied the book in english) and he said he didnt include girls because he didnt want it to be about sex.......
Christ. Seriously? I think that would make for a fucking great book. Like the moments in it could be great, a bunch of confused kids exploring sex without societal interference? Like that would, if done well, at least for me anyways. God forbid your book is interesting.
It would just be another bad book if it werent for the status it seems to have.
Its like he hasnt ever met a child in real life, but he has heard about them and thought it would be cool to write them in a book.

Pedofags are not welcome here.

> Ethan Frome

Seconded

You're right but the truth is their would've been sexual stuff between the boys

>Ulysses doesn't flow very well
This is literally the opposite of true
>It's pretentious
How can the most influential book of the last two decades be pretentious?

What was the gist of it?

>too popular
>no child sex
this is what passes for criticism on Veeky Forums

>so simple a child could do it
>Pascal's wager is invalid
Pick one.

>it's just a sequence of events made up by the author to make a broader point about life
Wut

>This book sucks
>doesn't present a criticism of the book
>instead complains about how the book was taught

Good job. Try again.

It's really overrated t b h.

>Rothfuss makes magic so simple that a literal child can do it after only a few sessions of practice,
Even the magisters or whatever acknowledge that what the school does isn't real magic. Its basically just mega-science. They all said that calling the name of an element was real magic, and only like 10 people have ever done it.

>the common people of his world treat magic like something that's confined to fairy tales. Where are the magic-powered guns and cars? Why doesn't their whole world run on magic?
Again, they said that the school is the last place that actually is institutionalized magic.

Did you even read it?

Moby dick.
That book is mine white whale. I've started reading it more than a year ago but I can only manage to read something like 4 or 5 pages per month. It's crazy.

Ah and the vicomte of Bragelonne, but in this case the fault is mine, the translation of that publisher is known for beeing ridiculous. However here is impossible to find that book, so I guess that does not count

Never understood why some find Moby Dick so hard to read. English is not my native language but the novel still read like a breeze to me. Melville's prose is very pleasant. I finished in like a week.

wuthering heights

Well, first off, the worst thing I ever read was a fanfiction that I wrote as a 12 year old. Will give details if desired. Does anyone else have cringey memories along those lines? I would love to hear about it.

Other than that, and whatever crap I read before 15, I had a hard time getting through The Great Gatsby. I'd say it's good for the time period, but for me that is the only appeal. And it's not like Swift's "A Modest Proposal" good for it's time period. If I wrote like Fitzgerald my professor would just write "Awk." all over the page for "awkward syntax." Also, I don't find the characters or story to be anything significant.

I think that it is far more likely that you have a taboo that it broke, and that made it an uncomfortable experience.