Has /lit/ ever tricked you into reading something awful?

No, it cost $10 a month and Lowtax doesn't do Gaming Garbage any more.

The Bible

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>>10009854
It's 10 a month? I thought it was a one time fee until you get banned.

Ulysses

DFW

>>10009911
What was your favorite book in the Bible? I honestly liked the book of Job the best.

I keep on reading recommendations, but I haven't read one that I didn't enjoy yet.

>>10010349
What's the one you enjoyed the least?

>>10009844
awful? i dunno, GR isn't all that amazing. I'm hoping Against the Day is better.

tao lin

>>10009854
Lowtax posted videos of the games I made when I was 10 on that channel. Weird feel, to say the least. Funny shit though.

my diary desu

>>10009844
Infinite fucking Jest
A true meme book I just can't believe some people here think it's a great

>>10010048
>What was your favorite book in the Bible?
>Not Ecclesiastes...
Anon...I...it's like you want to be a pleb forever...

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Pynchon. Even gave it multiple chances.

>>10009844
Oh god now they are putting spoiler tags on anime girls!

>>10011987
How can I stop being a pleb anon?

Crying of lot 49 though maybe I just didn't get it.

>>10014667
exactly this

No, but ytmnd sure did

>>10014667

It's a puzzle book. Check the archive for one possible explanation:

https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S667543

>>10010670
This, what were you thinking?
Ol' Davey was right about irony destroying culture.

>>10009844

The Shepherd's Crown.
I swore not to read another Pratchett novel after Raising Steam, it was painfully obvious his condition has deteriorated past the point where his writing was a pathetic shadow of its former self, and I didn't want to remember him like that.
Some daft cunt here said The Shepherd's Crown was actually good. No, it wasn't. It was fucking grotesque, like watching a crippled ballerina being strung up for a puppet show and pulled along through the motions of her entrée.
All of the underlying mechanisms and principles of his writing lay bare and exposed like the ribs of a rotten corpse. The magic all gone, just a disjointed mess, like listening to a horribly mangled record - you used to love the music, but this time everything sounds off, distorted, and for the most part it's either noise or the same garbled fragment of a melody playing over and over again until it sounds hollow and annoying and you just want it all to stop.

Infinite Jest

>>10014667
This. Glad I didn't buy the book like Inherent Vice (at least it has a nice cover)

Infinite Jest. Absolute wank.
It's clever and I did enjoy reading parts of it, but I have no desire to ever pick it up again.