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470640 No.470640 [Reply] [Original]

Shit books you had to read for class.
<- sad Indian people being sad, interchangeable characters, oh the melancholy!

>> No.470686
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470686

A series of post-apocalyptic cliches bandied together with atypically bland McCarthy prose.

>> No.470737

I like Maladies. It was intelligent, well written, and more than deserving of the Pulitzer it won.

>> No.470753

ITT: We mock good books we didn't like.

>> No.470755

>>470686
"He’d had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair. The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the names of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. In time to wink out forever."

Dat's some bland prose.

>> No.470766

>>470755
Compared to McCarthy's other books, yes.

>> No.470769

>>470753

There's a difference between good books and liberal guilt trip books.

I'm OK with lumping OP's example in the latter category.

That and fucking I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.

Fuck you.

>> No.470779

Alright, I'll say this: I hate Toni Morrison.

>> No.470786

Of Mice and Men

I didn't enjoy it

>> No.470806

>>470779
No shame in it, she sucks!

>> No.470805

>>470786

I didn't enjoy it, but I saw the necessity of having it in the curriculum and I would consider it literature.

But anything where we're supposed to feel bad because all women are victims and all black women are double victims leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.

Why can't I go into the world with no preconceptions?

>> No.470819

>>470805

my problem was that the first five chapters were essentially introducing a plot and the sixth chapter was the plot itself...

Story went nowhere: spend each chapter introducing a character and explaining why it sucks to be that character then kill lenny at the end.

>> No.471359

Shakespeare is the ultimate fag

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471363

Fuck this book. Seriously.

>> No.471365

I really enjoyed The Interpreter of Maladies.

>>470753 that sums this thread up.

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471368

Fuck you, Steinbeck, for this awful piece of shit.

>> No.471380

>>471368

You didn't like it? That's too bad. I rather enjoyed it.

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471392

>>471368
The fuck you say?

>> No.471407

ITT: Brown people books and "serious" chick lit