ITT: worst books you've ever read. I'll start, pic related.

>>8640683
Why?

>>8640708

I just can't understand how someone can make a race and nuclear war so incredibly boring.

Ethan Frome

bloodmeridian

>>8641110
agreed.

>>8640713
His other book, Hunter, is better written.

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>>8641110
>>8641338
It's a timely and vivid warning about the dangers of going sledding in rural New England, you plebs.

>>8641326
what if the Judge and the Kid are actually THE SAME CHARACTER did you ever think of that ooooooo

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Oh, and the worst book I've ever read is Billy Bud. I feel that I gained nothing from it and people I trust about books told me that I would.

Blood Meridian, Naked Lunch, and probably...most things Victorian.

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>>8641546
>>8641326
what's with the Blood Meridian hate? did you enjoy other Cormac McCarthy books?

>>8641559
>what's with the Blood Meridian hate?
>did you enjoy other Cormac McCarthy books?
>Cormac McCarthy books?
>Cormac McCarthy
>uneducated hack

>>8641563
what are you saying?

What is the problem with Blood Meridian? I've been wanting to read it for a while.

Also, Turner diaries could be so much better.

>>8641546
>Naked Lunch
This exactly. It reads like a /b/ pasta

Waverly by Walter Scott. It's surely not the worst bit oh my god its so tedious. Got like 50 pages preface...

>>8641576
Memes

Pride and prejudice

The Brothers Karamazov

>>8641110
Was going to post this.

>>8640683
All highschool required reading literature

>>8642383

>>8642361
u crazy? That's the probably best book ever!

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I fucking hate Romantic era poetry.

Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man bored me to tears

>>8643182
you stupid motherfucker

>>8640683
Frankenstein. That cunt must've spent fifty pages describing the fucking landscape.

>>8643207
always

>>8643182
ditto

>>8642144
I got 1/3 in and the prose made me angry. I don't find the run on sentences to be literary magic.

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This book is awful but really funny in the same way as The Room. Don Spears is an idiot and has a huge ego yet he gives his thoughts on a number of topics he doesn't have the authority to speak on. He is a playboy gone poet. It is also the only book you will find with every page being full of the word "goodpussy" (always one word).

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I've never wanted to punch a protagonist so much as this Lochan guy. I couldn't even finish it. The book was making me too goddamn angry at those characters.

>>8641546
>complaining about Victorian literature
I bet you regularly have sex and enjoy Don DeLillo

>>8642167

Most of the best writers since then have been greatly influenced by it directly or indirectly

Out by Kirino Natsuo. Absolute dogshit.

>>8643524
>In Search of Goodpussy: Living Without Love: The Real Truth About Men and Their Relationships: Reflections of a Reformed Ladies' Man: Just Telling It Like It Is
>#1

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>>8643182
My english teacher gave me her copy of the book and signed it when I graduated. Every once in a while I read what she wrote and smile.

>>8644226
fag

The Road, Cormac makes an apocalypse the most atrocious thing every.

>>8644226
ddi you fug

>>8644327
Of course.

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>>8643182
Would you recommended this book to me? I know you said you hate Romantic Era poetry but maybe when you read this you had some sort of ascension? Thanks.

>>8644347
Romantic poetry is the only good poetry, ignore that faggot.

>>8644226
Your English teacher wanted the D.

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>>8644226

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"Hi my name is OC DONUT STEEL and I had a really hard life ya know? Now read this poem I wrote in 7th grade."

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>>8644352
dunno, imo the best muse is calliope

>>8644347
I hate it, but I recognise its value and what it did for English literature.

Yeah, sure, get the dual-language one. I'm personally not familiar with German Romantic literature, so you'll have one-up on me, for certain.

You should also get the Norton Anthologies. Everyone should get some solid anthologies and collections. English, American, World, Poetry from Norton are the enduring standard. Norton are bringing out a new edition of the American in November, so you may want to grab that. It's always great and worthwhile to get exposed and equipped with the lay of the land. Even if you end up hating it, you'll at least know of it and know a little something of why they do what they do, and why you do or do not like something, and they will stick with you for life as miniature, valuable libraries.

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>>8644226
Aww that's nice :)