ITT: /lit/ Disappointments

Whenever a book builds up to the protagonist achieving his sexual desires only to dismiss the action with "we had sex" or "afterwards we..."

Just... Leaves me empty. I don't know what I even expect.

>>8142280
Yes. Still, i can't hate Arthur; The Mark of the Four and the Baskervilles's Hound are two great stories

pynchon

People act like post/modern shit is so deep or whatever and you read it and its just the author having a giggle with themselves at being disjointed.

>>8142280
The entire genre of cyberpunk is a disappointment

the aesthetic has a ton of potential but all the writers are shit

>>8143052
read vurt

>>8142280
Reading the Iliad as a kid to find out about the judgement of Helen and the Trojan horse and the sack of Troy: "Getting awfully close to the end, but maybe in the next book..."

Fishing book 12 of the Odyssey: "Gee, I wonder how many crazy adventures in new, unexplored lands he will have in the second half!"

Still loved that blind, illiterate old pederast, and I love him even more now.

J.G Ballard. I've started three of his books, dropped each one.