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Anonymous Thu Sep 7 13:02:17 2017 No.9992275 [Reply] [Original]

What are some books /lit/ told you were good, but ended up being shit?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 7 13:09:11 2017 No.9992299 File: 298 KB, 500x628, 1471135759129.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9992275 OP is a faggot. So it goes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 7 17:34:32 2017 No.9993539 Stoner. Just underwhelming, not absolute garb.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 7 17:36:00 2017 No.9993548 >>9993539 Fuck's sake, you actually replied to this bait?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 7 17:45:31 2017 No.9993593 >>9993548 if you don't attach a picture with the hook and a fish it doesn't count

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>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 7 18:18:51 2017 No.9993746 >>9993646 are you shitposting because I just bought it what's wrong with it

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 7 18:23:32 2017 No.9993780 Watership down

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 7 18:24:30 2017 No.9993787 >>9993746 idk why he said that, probably some pseud who thinks he already knew everything in it its a good book, anon

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 7 18:26:08 2017 No.9993803 the Harold Bloom poetry anthology Bloom's commentary is pretentious, long winded, and sometimes fringe and blusterous. The poems are good, but Norton's is a far better anthology

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 7 18:28:30 2017 No.9993819 >>9993787 thanks mate

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 7 21:56:07 2017 No.9994638 File: 35 KB, 292x450, 9780805209990.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Yet I think about it quite often...

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 7 22:25:11 2017 No.9994732 >>9992275 The Greeks All of them

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 7 22:26:06 2017 No.9994735 >>9992275 >>9993539 Both these, plus Book of Numbers

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 7 22:28:05 2017 No.9994743 >>9994638 I'm about 100 pages into this and I'm bored out of my skull. I keep hoping it's going to get better.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 7 22:43:18 2017 No.9994811 >>9994732 Which iliad did you read

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 7 22:43:39 2017 No.9994813 >>9994743 It doesn't

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 7 22:45:17 2017 No.9994819 >>9994638 >>9994743 stick with his short stories. they're more tolerable, and kinda fun to over analyze them to bits

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 7 22:54:02 2017 No.9994864 >>9992275 You start