ITT: Books that are seen as classics, amazing, unbelievable, brilliant, etc. But once you read it, didn't think it was too good. Pic related.

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Anonymous Tue Jan 22 18:33:04 2013 No.3387194 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Books that are seen as classics, amazing, unbelievable, brilliant, etc. But once you read it, didn't think it was too good.

Pic related.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 18:35:04 2013 No.3387199 Seconding OP. inb4 some faggot says 2deep4u. Yeah, nah. It wasn't.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 18:37:03 2013 No.3387210 Great Expectations. Shit blew cock.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 18:38:03 2013 No.3387213 File: 73 KB, 960x640, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Great Gatsby

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 18:39:03 2013 No.3387219 File: 136 KB, 302x450, farewell.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I was glad they all died

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 18:43:03 2013 No.3387232 File: 37 KB, 500x398, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3387219 FUCK YOUUU

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 18:45:04 2013 No.3387241 1984 Diary of a Young Girl Pharmakon Team of Rivals Uncle Tom's Cabin

Anonymous Tue Jan 22 18:49:03 2013 No.3387261

>>3387194

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway. It is the most boring and lifeless description of war that I've ever read, and not in a good way. All the characters do is get pissed in a cave all day and get nervous over two sentries guarding a bridge. I was happy when the inevitable happened and the hero died.

Anonymous Tue Jan 22 18:49:03 2013 No.3387263 [DELETED]

Not a big fan of On The Road. There were a couple passages that stood out to me as excellent writing, like the description of the forest after the party in the mountains or literally any passage about jazz and its effect on the characters, but as a whole it felt meandering and repetitive. Which was probably the point, I guess I just didn't really like it that much.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 18:51:03 2013 No.3387270 Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - complete shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 18:56:03 2013 No.3387293 all vonnegut is shit tier stoner crap

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 18:58:03 2013 No.3387299 >>3387263 This. I do like the whole idea behind the novel though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 19:06:04 2013 No.3387318 Heart of Darkness has not aged well at all

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 19:07:04 2013 No.3387324 >>3387261 this is my favourite war novel haha. i thought the end was absolutely heartbreaking.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 19:14:03 2013 No.3387354 Brave New World. It's so camp.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 19:19:03 2013 No.3387375 Dune

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 20:11:03 2013 No.3387600 The Great Gatsby

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 20:13:03 2013 No.3387614 >>3387293 The Sirens of Titan is a solid sci-fi novel Bluebeard is underrated Breakfast of Champions is good Sure, he's overrated, but he's a great entry point into "literature"

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 20:31:03 2013 No.3387735 Fucking Catcher in the Rye. Holden is the most annoying character I have ever had the displeasure to read about

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 20:32:03 2013 No.3387739 >>3387194 any Gene Wolfe novel. Terribly, terribly overrated

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 20:32:03 2013 No.3387743 >>3387213 >>3387600 fuck your face

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 20:34:03 2013 No.3387752 >>3387261 This. I loved AFTA and TSAR, but this book was way longer than it needed to be. Too much drink, probably. I did like the sex, though. The world moved for me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 20:48:04 2013 No.3387840 File: 662 KB, 2526x3204, Fave_Great_Gatsby_Moment_by_blacktenshi22.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3387194 >>3387743 Somebody is artsy fartsy

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 20:51:03 2013 No.3387861 File: 6 KB, 126x122, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It had to be done.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 21:04:03 2013 No.3387960 >>3387861 >How dare someone not like something! Grow up. That being said: Wuthering Heights

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 21:08:03 2013 No.3387998 >>3387960 i swer 2 crist m8 u need too caml down befor i hook ye rite in the gaber

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 21:10:03 2013 No.3388012 >>3387998 U wahnt a good ole bong in the ticka?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 21:10:03 2013 No.3388014 >>3387270 Agreed

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 21:12:03 2013 No.3388035 >>3387194 Agreed, OP. Why are people so into Vonnegut?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 21:15:03 2013 No.3388053 >>3388035 I'm guessing you haven't read Cat's Cradle or Sirens of Titan

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 21:15:03 2013 No.3388062 >>3388012 u lil fuckin gay boy fone me if u got da balls cheeky prick see if u can step up lil queer

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 21:16:03 2013 No.3388064 >>3387960 Basically all novels from the Romance genre of Victorian lit are complete shit. The Brontes and Austen being the worst offenders

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 21:38:03 2013 No.3388227 >>3388062 Don'nut tri boyo, ayell bonk yet gonk

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 22:20:03 2013 No.3388542 >>3388053 >Cat's Cradle as good Why can't I hold all this disrespect?

>>	Harold Bloom Tue Jan 22 22:23:03 2013 No.3388564 File: 44 KB, 337x332, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3388542 its in the canon u cheeky kunt

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 22:29:03 2013 No.3388616 >>3387354 This so hard. It created an interesting world and set up great conflict, then went "LOLNOPE" with the ending.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 22:32:03 2013 No.3388645 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. Fucking terrible book.

Anonymous Tue Jan 22 22:33:03 2013 No.3388647

>>3387213
I fucking loathe the Great Gatsby as a work of literature. It's fine as a shit tier romance that reads pretty well and is entertaining, but it has absolutely no lasting value. The symbolism is garbage and Lord of the Flies levels of obvious.
LOOK AT GATSBY LOOKING LONGINGLY ACROSS THE BAY AT THE GREEN LIGHT
WONDER WHAT THAT'S SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT
Fuck you Fitzgerald.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 23:12:03 2013 No.3388827 >>3387614 The Sirens of Titan is by far my favorite of his. I don't get why Slaughterhouse-Five is so hyped when he's done much better.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 23:14:03 2013 No.3388832 File: 16 KB, 222x334, cover_finnegans_wake.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I read this.

craig Tue Jan 22 23:19:03 2013 No.3388851

>>3387263

It was written in like 3 days while he was high on Benzedrine, so I like how it is meandering and repetitive, because it reflects his state of mind at the time, but I can see how people wouldn't like it. I agree that it shouldn't be considered a classic though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 23:21:03 2013 No.3388856 File: 22 KB, 630x274, 630x274.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3387219 Only book I've ever indiscriminately hated.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 23:23:03 2013 No.3388861 File: 141 KB, 1024x768, m-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3388645 Who hurt you as a child?

Anonymous Tue Jan 22 23:27:03 2013 No.3388871
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>>3387375
yeah, I'd have to agree Dune was disappointing.
It wasn't a bad book, but it didn't quite live up to the "science fiction's supreme masterpiece" for me.
Themes/Plot/Characters were all alright, but not very original. And it barely felt like I was reading sci-fi half the time, but eh.

Anonymous Tue Jan 22 23:30:03 2013 No.3388887

Anything by Bataille

I really tried to give him a chance. It was his essay 'The Solar Anus' that really made me give up on him. Terrible shit. One of my least favorite writers of all time.

>the balls are made from the same matter as flowers are and the butthole the same matter as the sun, so profound xD

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 23:30:03 2013 No.3388890 >>3388871 Really? Okay, because some guys I know have been lobbying to get me to read this for two years now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 23:39:04 2013 No.3388924 >>3388887 ah. I was thinking about story of the eye next, but haven't heard much about it other than in the of montreal song

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 23:43:03 2013 No.3388938 >>3388871 once you understand herberts mysticism, it becomes a masterpiece also, 3deep6u

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 23:43:03 2013 No.3388939 >>3388887 Have you read Story of the Eye?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 23:44:04 2013 No.3388944 >>3388832 no you didnt

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 23:48:03 2013 No.3388956 >>3388645 Wat. Why do you say that?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 23:48:03 2013 No.3388957 >>3388939 Yeah, it didn't do much for me. I'd call it his best, though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 23:53:03 2013 No.3388972 >>3387219 I'm reading this right now 1) fuck you 2) I'm rather enjoying it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 23:56:03 2013 No.3388983 >>3388647 what does it actually represent

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:00:03 2013 No.3388993 >>3388983 it represents harry potter and he's scared of voldemort when he goes to the chamber of secrets

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:03:03 2013 No.3389004 frankenstein I just expected to liked it but it was really boring

Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:03:03 2013 No.3389006
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>>3388983
He's looking for his American Dream that doesn't exist because all people care about is how "old" and "established" you are actually.

Past that, there's some fantastic prose in that thing.

>>3388956
I know, right?

Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:09:03 2013 No.3389020

>>3387194
>>3387199

yupe, 2deep4u. No, seriously, this book is a slap becuase you're expecting war horrors, but you're getting the most truthful post-war trauma described in a book. In one sentence the essence of the book: everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. Yes, it's both irony and testimonial about the inhumane conditions of the war.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:10:03 2013 No.3389023 >>3387614 he's underrated, especially from his own fellow citizens.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:16:03 2013 No.3389048 Neuromancer. Why?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:17:03 2013 No.3389052 >>3387219 Except they didn't all die?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:19:03 2013 No.3389055 >>3387318 i disagree, though i thought apocalypse now was more relevant in a modern sense. i loved both of them though - the stuff about colonialism was updated with the movie, but the existentialist "horror" is just as potent

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:20:04 2013 No.3389059 The Divine Comedy, although I haven't given up. I'll try again with a different translation at some point.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:21:04 2013 No.3389064 >>3388856 camus what are you doing on 4chan aren't you dead

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:22:03 2013 No.3389066 >>3389064 Sexy pictures of Camus are forever.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:25:03 2013 No.3389074 I read the first Foundation trilogy in my teens and liked it. Now I am in my mid thirties and for some reason read the 2nd trilogy. I absolutely hate it. I also hate what I remember about the first. I can't understand why these are so appreciated.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:32:03 2013 No.3389104 File: 19 KB, 302x475, 67064[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It wasn't terrible, just very underwhelming and obviously an unfinished work. I don't really get the hype.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:35:03 2013 No.3389115 >>3389104 I wish id would have been more disturbing like in the beginning. I really love the way the first chapter plays out, but the things that followed were a bit underwhelming. I still love Kafka for the metamorphisis.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:37:03 2013 No.3389120 File: 10 KB, 187x270, thegrapesofwrath.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:38:04 2013 No.3389125 >>3389104 3deep5u

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:39:04 2013 No.3389129 >>3389104 i was "forced" to read the german original and actually rather liked it compared to the other books we had to read.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:42:04 2013 No.3389136 >>3389104 5deep7u

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:47:03 2013 No.3389147 >>3389129 >forced to read Kafka So Kafkaesque.

>>	ƷӜ̵̨̄Ƹ̵̡ Wed Jan 23 00:49:03 2013 No.3389152 >>3387194 >>3389151 Its a way-homer.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 00:51:03 2013 No.3389156 File: 29 KB, 624x352, 1355285880123.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3389147

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 01:01:03 2013 No.3389186 File: 831 KB, 300x221, 1349470976237.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3389129 >forced You should have read it by the time you were in high school.

Anonymous Wed Jan 23 01:02:03 2013 No.3389188
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I disliked most of what I had to read in high school, but I think that had more to do with me being a snot-faced teenager than anything else. (Still, I have no desire to revisit "The Great Gatsby" or "Things Fall Apart.") But that was long ago, so I don't really count them, thinking I was an undeveloped reader at the time.

But recently I read "Jane Eyre" and was fairly disappointed. But even worse was "The Sheltering Sky" which I thought was absolute dreck. I hated it, mostly because I hated the characters.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 10:27:04 2013 No.3390102 Same, OP.

>>	Youaintfindingoutwhoiis@yahoo.com Anonymous Wed Jan 23 14:56:05 2013 No.3390955 "The Sound and The Fury" - Faulkner Overly confusing for weak how of a story it is "Anthem" Huge fan of dystopias but this was just crap

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:01:05 2013 No.3390969 Picture of Dorian Fucking Gray

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:02:05 2013 No.3390976 File: 55 KB, 948x1447, The-Great-Gatsby[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It was a nice evocation of the era, but as a novel it was pretty meh

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:03:05 2013 No.3390978 ham on rye.

Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:03:05 2013 No.3390979
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>>3390955
>"The Sound and The Fury" - Faulkner
Who hurt you?

His style is meant to be slightly confusing since most of the characters narrate from stream of conscious. It's meant to be an allegory for the rotting south.

Also, look at how adorable Faulkner is. You can't say no to that mustache.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:04:06 2013 No.3390984 >>3390969 This.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:07:06 2013 No.3390998 >>3390969 Couldn't agree more.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:07:06 2013 No.3390999 Catcher in the Rye. It was shit. I read it when I was 15, in full emo teen mode, and I still thought it was shit. Also, Breakfast at Tiffanies. It's just about a guy who gets friendzoned. Meh.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:07:06 2013 No.3391002 >>3390955 You are straight dumb.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:10:06 2013 No.3391013 >>3390984 >>3390998 aw, how so? it was alright.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:16:05 2013 No.3391037 I didn't care much for Huck Finn

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:17:05 2013 No.3391044 >>3390979 I want to peel off that mustache and slurp up the hairs one by one

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:18:05 2013 No.3391050 >>3390999 >in full emo teen mode, and I still thought it was shit God you're stupid.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:19:05 2013 No.3391056 >>3391013 It wasn't "amazing, unbelievable, brilliant", it was alright I agree.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:25:05 2013 No.3391087 >>3389055 HoD is one of my favorite novels of all time. Apocalypse Now!!!! Was complete and utter shit and basically just spat on the novel.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:25:05 2013 No.3391092 File: 15 KB, 367x338, 1291913800093.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3391050

Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:28:06 2013 No.3391109

The Metamorphoses by Kafka.

Yeah, that's right. I was just completely underwhelmed by it. Could somebody help me out with it?

The most I got was that reality is arbitrary, which I think is a cool as fuck idea, but didn't think the actual execution of that idea was that good.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:28:06 2013 No.3391113 What the fuck's wrong with you all people shitting on all of these great books? Go back to reading Harry Potter.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:29:06 2013 No.3391119 >>3390979 God loving Jesus Christ do I love Faulkner.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:30:05 2013 No.3391123 File: 216 KB, 919x1388, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3391113 Is this a good one to start with??

Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:30:05 2013 No.3391124

>>3391087
>Apocalypse Now!!!! Was complete and utter shit and basically just spat on the novel.
Do us all a favor and never watch another movie again if you're just going to be this wrong about it.
>just spat on the novel.
It's an amazingly good adaptation.

Anonymous Wed Jan 23 15:34:05 2013 No.3391130

>>3387194
This thread is talkative of /lit/'s pseudo-intellectuality.

You prefer verbose and purple language with half-assed philosophy and a literary reference race to death of instead of brilliant masterworks that speaks of life and reality with utmost thought yet simpler prose.

Anonymous Wed Jan 23 20:41:06 2013 No.3392135
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>>3391130
>talkative
>pseudo-intellectuality
>verbose and purple language
>literary reference race to death

I'm sorry, but do you write sentences by just flipping to a random page in the dictionary and choosing a word with your eyes closed?

And it's not like every book is indicative of everyone's opinion, people have been disagreeing and debating too.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 20:46:06 2013 No.3392151 It's okay, I wouldn't consider it bad or horrible. But it definitely starts to lose it near the last fourth with muh political rights

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 20:47:06 2013 No.3392154 File: 15 KB, 200x313, 200px-TheJungleSinclair.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3392151 Whoops

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 20:49:05 2013 No.3392161 >>3391123 /lit/'s official suggested harry potter reading order: >3-5-1-Chronicles of Narnia-8-3 again-4 The other ones aren't important. Hope this helps!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 20:52:05 2013 No.3392169 >>3387270 It's just not very funny and the books idea of humor just gets grating after a while.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 20:53:05 2013 No.3392170 >>3387861 this. One of the worst kind of threads.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 21:00:05 2013 No.3392187 >>3387210 All Dickens novels blow cock

Anonymous Wed Jan 23 21:03:05 2013 No.3392193

>>3387241
>1984
Definitely, one of the worst of the "dystopian, nobody's-a-free-thinker-anymore" novels that came about in the 20th century. It's so melodramatic and creates, and tries to handle seriously, problems that are so absurd it divorces the reader and makes him unable to look past the fact that none of this could ever actually happen

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 21:03:05 2013 No.3392201 >>3387293 B-b-but I liked Cat's Cradle

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 21:06:05 2013 No.3392205 >>3387735 >a book's quality depends on how much you like the characters You are a bad man

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 21:08:05 2013 No.3392212 >>3387960 Wuthering Heights was a lot better than many other romance novels in my opinion Austen's early novels are awful, Northanger Abbey and Emma are okay

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 21:09:05 2013 No.3392220 >>3392187 Really? All 500 of them?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 21:16:05 2013 No.3392242 >>3392205 Agreed. He should never be allowed within ten feet of a copy of Lolita.

Anonymous Wed Jan 23 21:16:05 2013 No.3392243

>>3387270
This. One of my friends thinks that this book is hilarious, but I just don't see it. The author just writes something random (for example, I think that at one point something turns into a plotted plant for no reason) and thinks it's great comedy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 21:20:06 2013 No.3392255 File: 70 KB, 500x564, tumblr_m0ufk852JF1qizbpto1_500.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3392243 He's okay. I don't regret reading him, but meh.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 21:34:06 2013 No.3392286 File: 10 KB, 261x331, Anne_Frank.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Atlas Shrugged and so did I

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 21:36:05 2013 No.3392289 Anything by T.S. Eliot, seriously, his "work" is fetid.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 21:36:05 2013 No.3392291 The Three Musketeers

Anonymous Wed Jan 23 22:26:05 2013 No.3392423

>>3391087

you can kiss the fattest part of my ass, it's one of the best movies about one of the best books.

>>3392161

lol

>>3392169

Absolutely. But it also occupies a position at the birth of "lel nerd culture" that you can witness blossoming on >>>/reddit/ these days. So I can understand why it's all over the place, and honestly, it's not _bad_, it's just not _good_.

>>3392193
How edgy of you. 1984 is borderline prophecy at this point.

---

I'll try to contribute:

>Our Town by Thornton Wilder

Anonymous Wed Jan 23 22:33:07 2013 No.3392436

The Sound And The Fury: As someone said before, it's unnecessarily scattered in a way that does no justice to the plot, which is already weighed down by a setting that doesn't interest me and characters who I cannot connect to. ( But, I only got 70 pages in. Maybe I'll give it a second shot. )
Catcher In The Rye: Even reading it as a lonely, angst ridden teenager, Holden's gripes still had zero relatebility to me.
1984: I really have no major issue with the book, it's just that it's over-rated, and the plot didn't interest me at all.
To Kill A Mockingbird: Also overrated, but I like the childhood perspective.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 22:36:05 2013 No.3392447 Satre, La Nausee >u mad? anything by Camus that isn't L'Etranger, and, to be honest, only the last few pages of that didn't dissapoint. >inb4 l2accuteaccent

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 22:38:05 2013 No.3392453 >>3387318 Are you fucking insane?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 22:57:05 2013 No.3392543 just use your hand, man, it works.. one of my mates used to shag a loaf of bread might work i dont know, just make sure it's not sliced bread just a loaf.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 23 23:04:05 2013 No.3392572 >>3387960 But this entire thread is just people seeking attention by bashing popular books. I can't see it serving any other purpose.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 00:54:06 2013 No.3392895 File: 174 KB, 898x883, snsd_tiffany_meme.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3392436 >judges Faulkner novel without finishing it Of course you need to finish reading it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 00:56:06 2013 No.3392901 >>3392436 Leave.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 00:56:06 2013 No.3392902 >>3392436 You have to be somewhat privileged to identify with Holden. Otherwise its really just a horror story. I liked it though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 00:56:06 2013 No.3392904 >>3388827 glad sirens of titan is getting a lot of lvoe around here recently, possibly my favorite novel ever, vonnegut being my favorite author

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 01:04:06 2013 No.3392930 >>3392436 Why do you need to relate to characters in order to enjoy a book?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 01:06:06 2013 No.3392935 >>3388827 Isn't Slaughterhouse-Five taught in some highschools and entry-level lit courses? That would explain it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 01:23:06 2013 No.3392981 Fucking Blood Meridian. Shit was meh.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 01:26:06 2013 No.3392985 >>3392895 Not really. If you don't like a book, don't finish it. Life's too short for that shit

Anonymous Thu Jan 24 01:31:06 2013 No.3392991

>>3389188
I read Sheltering Sky this winter. I really enjoyed it, but I also enjoyed the girl character. The other ones were fairly flat but I really enjoyed the last third when she completely deteriorated and the general potrayal of the setting. I didn't know the book was considered a classic.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 02:12:06 2013 No.3393060 >>3392981 and so it begins...

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 02:14:07 2013 No.3393063 >>3392981 NO WAY then again, Suttree seems quite overrated

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 02:16:07 2013 No.3393067 >>3392985 >#yolo

Anonymous Thu Jan 24 04:32:06 2013 No.3393277

>>3392991
Sheltering Sky is supposed to be one of the best "travel" novels written, on par with the likes of Hemingway. I was made into a film with highly praised cinematography. (Though I have not seen it myself.)

I will say the setting was very well described—all the sand and flies—and there were nice moments that took me away from my living room. I'm surprised you liked the last third. It seemed like a bad sexploitation movie to me. But, we all have our opinions...

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 04:53:07 2013 No.3393302 >>3392902 I-I identified with Holden ;_;

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 05:03:06 2013 No.3393313 File: 45 KB, 300x464, paradise-lost-book-cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] scumbag english professor

Anonymous Thu Jan 24 05:09:06 2013 No.3393320

>>3387219
I agree. The prose man, I hated it.
>oh this war, this terrible war
>yeah this war sucks yo
>I wish this war was over
>THEESSS WAARRR
etc.

He didn't show us why or how the war was bad, it was just characters talking about how bad the war was. They didn't even talk about things like how tough a battle was, or how hard it was not to have food, no they just talked about how bad the war was, literally.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 05:45:07 2013 No.3393361 >>3393320 4/10

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 06:12:06 2013 No.3393391 neuromancer

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 06:16:06 2013 No.3393397 This Side of Paradise. A Farewell to Arms.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 06:17:06 2013 No.3393398 >>3393397 Also, Billy Budd.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 06:18:06 2013 No.3393399 >>3393398 Ok, wait. I still enjoyed all three of those, they just didn't seem particularly remarkable. I just thought of a "classic" that I actually fucking HATED: A Separate Peace. Fuck that gay ass book, it sucked SO. MUCH. FUCKING. DICK.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 06:25:07 2013 No.3393404 Gatsby

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 09:35:07 2013 No.3393719 File: 1000 KB, 500x245, G0j3JUy.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3392985 Yeah, but if he had bothered to finish the damn book, he would have realized that his argument is completely invalid.

>>	sage Thu Jan 24 09:36:07 2013 No.3393721 >>3392981 God fucking damn you.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 14:17:06 2013 No.3394432 >>3389104 I finished this today and loved it. Literature is subjective though so you're welcome to your opinion.

Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:34:07 2013 No.3394673

>>3392447 reading nausea now for a class and it sucks butt
Anything by Camus. I fell asleep on the first page of three of his books.
A Clockwork Orange. No I will not learn your ridiculous rhyming slang nadsat bullshit.
Glass Menagerie, or Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. Just not interesting at all.
Faust by Goethe and Divine Comedy by Dante. I can't stand translated poetry I've found.
The second and third twilight books because they just dragged on about nothing while bella tries to fuck a 120 year old virgin. And the fourth because there's 300 pages of training and gathering of vampires that leads to a boring meeting where nobody fights and nobody dies. The first wasn't awful though.

Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:59:07 2013 No.3394753

Catcher in the Rye was terrible. I went into it completely blind, and for some reason, I fell under the impression that it was going to be a lot like Jeepers Creepers. Instead, I got some kid crying. Got to within 12 pages of completing it and I dropped it.

>>3394673

You are the scum of the Earth. Twilight was a terrible series. All of the books, ALL of them, were scum that crawled up from the abyss. And no, they weren't just "not awful," either. They were terrible. If you actually believe otherwise and don't repent for it, I hope you have an excruciatingly painful journey through the fires of literary hell.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 16:10:07 2013 No.3394783 >>3394753 i knew it would be amusing to voice my opinion of twilight. did you read them? or do you judge them based solely on the elementary alpha male gay panic reaction to romantic teen fiction?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 16:17:07 2013 No.3394816 >>3394673 You're a terrible person.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 16:20:07 2013 No.3394828 anyone who talks shit on Faulkner is a fucking goober.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 11:15:07 2013 No.3397825 >>3389004 >Book written by 6yo girl >Expects it to be good

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 11:29:07 2013 No.3397887 >>3394753 >catcher in the rye >thought it was going to be a lot like jeepers creepers i lol'd so hard, but knowing nothing going into it, i could see where you were coming from. i suppose the name is a bit misleading.

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