Which books pleasantly surprised you? What were you originally

>>7578917

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was definitely better then I expected and surprisingly pleasant.

I was expecting a sort-of-boring novel that I could understand why people might think was interesting given the year it was written and how it compared to other books and the time and so forth. It turned out to be excellent.

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>>7578917
>that wart

>>7579037

How would you feel if that was you and people made fun of you for it?

You should feel ashamed of yourself for posting that.

>>7579037
That's a mole
Do you even accurate word choice

There have been many, but most recently Plath's The Bell Jar

I was expecting something like One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest meets Steppenwolfe meets emo diary.

I would do an awful job explaining what I liked about it right now I haven't slept more than about 3 hours total in the past three days, but it was quite enjoyable. I just thought the ending was a bit too abrupt.

Another recent one was Frankenstein.

For this, I expected something like a shitty sci-fi version of something Poe-like. Turned out to be (i thought) quite good in terms of things like prose/syntax, use of literary allusion and symbolism in developing the themes, etc. Only major gripe was Shelley's repetitive use of particular words/phrases (how many times can people do things "ardently" or "with ardor" in one novel?) and how indistinguishable the different characters' dialogue was.

>>7579256
countenance

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>>7579264

>>7578917
i had been told ulysses would be boring

>>7579574
This. I thought there would be a few beautiful sections, but that I'd have to slog through hundreds of boring pages that were praised for their allusions and experimental nature. It ended but being the best novel I've ever read.

The grapes of wrath

>>7579574
>>7579623
same. I also thought the same about Gravity's Rainbow. Infinite Jest was the hard one to get through for me.

>>7580408
Please kill yourself

>muh I read meme books because I'm so /lit/

Fucking impressionable faggot

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

I was expecting this kind of mundane realistic story about maybe like a multi generational Stoner but it was a lot more imaginative and vibrant

>>7580422
>100 years of Kek

Are you still in high school or something?

Mein Kampf and Atlas Shrugged

>>7580419
please gently fist yourself

>>7580430
>atlas shrugged

Can you tell me more about how it suprised you?

>>7580434
Get the fuck out of my thread, virgin

>>7580441
It made me realize that socialism is retarded and the freer the market the freer the rich people. And the rich people are better and hierarchy like that is good.

>>7580448
Most books written by women are unbearable, though. How does this one fare?

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I thought blood meridian was going to be passable literature that just told a brutal but interesting story, but Cormac McCarthy can actually write.

Watership Down