/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15243492]

What's the most cringeworthy book you've read?

[Anonymous No.15243531]

>>15243492
the bible - sky daddy

[Anonymous No.15243540]

>>15243531
This post is the most cringeworthy thing I’ve read.

Apart from that, probably that one Ben Shapiro book I read half of back when he was a hot meme.

[Anonymous No.15243550]

Looking For Alaska

It wasn't terrible, but it was pretty far from my ordinary wheelhouse

[Anonymous No.15243577]

I can't remember what the hell it was called, so if someone knows, please tell me. The title was something like "This Is Not a Book," but it wasn't that exactly. It was a surrealist book about a guy who realizes everything around him is an illusion, and it all starts falling apart - buildings collapse, he's running through them. I think it was an attempt at a dream sequence, but there was no depth whatsoever - the thing reads like the description of a movie, modeled after Inception or something. I read it because it got some buzz in the indie world briefly, before disappearing.

[Anonymous No.15243585]

My diary desu

[Anonymous No.15243590]

>>15243577
Is it this one?

[Anonymous No.15243609]

The bible.

[Anonymous No.15243624]

>>15243590
Thanks, I'll check it out, but I don't think it is. Just from a brief search, it looks like this is a humorous novel by an experienced author. The one I'm talking about was recent, within the last 10 to 20 years, and the other was young and clearly inexperienced.

[Anonymous No.15243652]

It by Stephen King.
Admittedly, I could not come close to finishing it.
I cringed at him making adult Bill Denbrough his avatar.
I cringed at him believing that the majority of adults in 60s Maine were racist, sexist, or homophobic -- that his sadist characters (and there are a lot) use words like "faggot" and "nigger" a hundred times. Not even the grand wizard of the KKK would refer to a black owner's dog as a "nigger dog" a dozen times in two minutes and then kill the thing because it belongs to a black family.
His lack of a complex perspective is cringe.
The orgy scene...I truly believe King is into some Epstein shit because that set-up made no sense.
King is the reason memes about boomers exist.

[Anonymous No.15243774]

>>15243652
I enjoyed the interludes where Mike was interviewing random folks and goging into the history of the town. There were some genuinely touching moments, but those were few and far between. In the end, it's not worth the read, and I hate his style.

[Anonymous No.15243786]

house of leaves

[Anonymous No.15243787]

>>15243774
I remember reading the Shining and I don't recall it being half bad. But what the fuck was the deal with IT? Does cocaine simplify things?

[Anonymous No.15243795]

>>15243786
HOL is better when you realize it's all bullshit and one giant metaphor for Mark Z. Danielewski's relationship with his mother under the pen name Johnny Truant.

[Anonymous No.15243810]

>>15243492
recently read this, kind of interesting setup but so poor execution i laughed a lot while reading it. extremely shallow characterization, shitty plot, idiotic sci-fi elements thrown in (i get that this is in relation to some vidya but still), guessed the ending before reading half the book. the afterword comment was way better than the book.

[Anonymous No.15243811]

Beyond Good and Evil

Just edgy cringe
>You thought fucking your cat was immoral....WRONG

[Anonymous No.15243837]

>>15243492

[Anonymous No.15243861]

>>15243837
>DUDE MAGIC LMAO

[Anonymous No.15243915]

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. I think that's what it's called.
If I were to take a shot at fantasy it would read like that, which objectively makes it a steaming pile of crap.

[Anonymous No.15243942]

>>15243492

[Anonymous No.15244089]

Naked Lunch

[Anonymous No.15244155]

Sadly when I was in high school I bought Glenn Beck's Arguing with Idiots.

[Anonymous No.15244165]

all books are cringe

[Anonymous No.15244182]

>>15243492
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and No Longer Human. Both filled with nonsensical pseudo-philosophical rambling, it seemed as if they were written by immature mental midgets with a flare for hideously overwrought and melodramatic prose.

[Anonymous No.15244817]

>>15243811
>You thought fucking your cat was immoral....WRONG

absolutely based

[Anonymous No.15245257]

Douglas Coupland. I think he tries too hard.

[Anonymous No.15245316]

>>15243492
"The Mind of a Thief". We had to read it in highschool and it was the most terrible book I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.15245326]

>>15244817
lmao

[Anonymous No.15245336]

Nietzsche’s the Antichrist. He makes some good observations but the writing is so fucking edgy.

[Anonymous No.15245353]

>>15245336
I noticed this too, but only because I read the English translation first. In German his "edge" is delivered much more gracefully.

[Anonymous No.15245363]

>>15243577
>>15243624
John Dies at the End?

[Anonymous No.15245370]

>>15245353

That is totally on point. I don't like Nietzsche and I don't like this nihilistic shit either but it really offers the full range if you read it in German.

[Anonymous No.15245372]

>>15245370
> I don't like Nietzsche and I don't like this nihilistic shit either
cringe

[Anonymous No.15245399]

Anything by ciro alergia, he sucks

[Anonymous No.15245407]

[Anonymous No.15245412]

>>15243492
Tried to read this for shits and giggles. Only got about 100 pages in. Full of shit, but not much to giggle over. It was too bad to even make it a guilty pleasure.

[Anonymous No.15245427]

The descent of man - Grayson Perry

[Anonymous No.15245454]

>>15243652
I feel like you're lying because you claim that you couldn't come close to finishing it but the orgy scene happens very near the end of the book.

[Anonymous No.15245468]

Pictured.

Praised by every boomer I knew.

Protagonist was seen as "morally superior" because he's indecisive about picking a religion.


"MAYBE it was a dream" ending.

Irritating and overrated.

[Anonymous No.15245487]

>>15244182
Well, one of them thought that the Emperor is sacred because he could sit still for three hours straight, while the other thought that the disorder and misery of Japan immediately after the war was more "human" than the orderly and motivated society that preceded it.

So yeah, both mental midgets.

[Anonymous No.15245506]

[Anonymous No.15245527]

>>15245427
>Grayson Perry
ew

[Anonymous No.15245539]

>>15245468
Wow. Filtered by life of pi. That's a first

[Anonymous No.15245542]

>>15245506
I remember that. What is it about exactly?

[Anonymous No.15245563]

>>15245468
I thought it was a good book, even though I didn't agree with his religious opinions at all. I liked it more as a tale of survival, like him catching and gutting a turtle was interesting. I had to call bullshit at the chapter where he finds a floating island that developed from a human tooth, though. That was so fucking far fetched and it had otherwise been believable up until then, and his only excuse is "the island is so tiny no one can discover it again so you can't prove it didn't happen."

The movie however was hot dogshit. All those millions of dollars animating perfect sunsets and mirror like oceans and the only part of the film with any real emotion was him sitting in a hospital bed.

[Anonymous No.15245600]

>>15245563
It's a shame, I think without the introduction it could have been a good surreal short film. Ending would work better too imo

[Anonymous No.15245615]

>>15245542
Some broad feels unfulfilled by her urban careerist life. She goes off to Italy first to basically eat and be a menace. Then it's off to some ashram in India for spiritual aimlessness. Finally she ends up in Bali and somehow finds a vague inner peace. In some attempt to step out of her comfort zone, she forces herself onto a collection of exotic figures for her own amusement and vanity.

[Anonymous No.15245620]

>>15243942
I thought it was ok :/

[Anonymous No.15245637]

>>15243492
Six of crows by Leigh Bardugo. I only bought it because it was literally EVERYWHERE in my bookstore and it had a nice cover. I didn't know that Leigh was a female name and that the author was also jewish.

[Anonymous No.15245638]

I should have read it when I was young so I wouldn't find it cringey. I read it as a teen and it was so hokey and douchy. It makes sense its a favorite of many females, my aunt actually gifted me the copy I read.

[Anonymous No.15245684]

Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Some books made by Bruce Sterling
Cradle by Gentry Lee and Arthur C. Clarke

[Anonymous No.15245710]

For me, it's Post Office. It was my third Bukowski (Ham on Rye was pretty good, Factotum was mediocre) and I couldn't stand the edginess of it all.

>>15245638
It baffles me how many people outside of Brazil fall for Coelho's esoteric bullshit.

[Anonymous No.15245761]

i don't remember why i even read this but it was like a combination of tvtropes with those pretentious "how the powerups from mario helped me deal with my mom's cancer" videogame journalism articles. plus the prose is painful, endless sentences linked together by commas with no flow whatsoever. "i thought about this, and he said that, it was sad, we went home, it was late, mother was watching tv, there was rain, i ate chips."