literary disappointments thread >you are depressed >you

>>7738455

I bet you think a comedy is a funny play.

>buy On A Winter's Night's a Traveller
>some weird printing error and it ends after ten pages

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>read naked lunch
>it's just a worse version of almost transparent blue

>>7738455
>read back to eden
>it's not about paradise

In the comedy is the happy ending sense not the amusement sense

The Divine Comedy is the divine comedy.

>>7738534
>read naked lunch
>it's not about food openly placed on a table
and i am still hungry

>read The Great Gatsby
>expected something mindblowingly good
>it wasn't bad but didn't really grip me

Not being very memorable is probably the worst thing a book can do.

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>>7738455
>The Republic
>just some old guys talking, no Trump

>>7738455
american education

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>buy Infinite Jest
>'oh boy I'll never have to buy another book again!'
>it ends

I got fucking tricked

>>7738551
this

to me, the most amazing thing about the Great Gatsby is that people cared about it

>>7738579
I no longer truly believe the Infinite Jest meme, is it a good or bad book?

It looks not to bad...

>>7738612
honestly?
it's bad.

>>7738455
>not laughing at devils in sulphur fragment
>not laughing at dante kicking this guy in pool of shit
Yr pleb

>>7738455
>read two books by fyodor
>The double and white nights

>>7738612
actually?
it's good.

>>7738524
underrated post

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>>7738455
>read The Art of the Deal
>expect some Ayn Rand tier "how I did it" type thing
>it is a fucking diary with elementary school prose

>read the illiad
>literally just hector chasing greeks around till Achilles decides to kill him

> go on /Lit/
> oh wait I remember

>read American Psycho
>expect it to be about gruesome murders and containing deep psychological insights
>it's actually a fancy clothing brochure

>>7738455
at least is divine

>>7738455
>implying the part where the demons dip the sinners into molten tar isn't hilarious