Shit /lit/

Extract from a friend's novel

Ethan Frome
The Investigation by Stanislaw Lem
We Can Build You by PKD
Stuff from crit threads here

>>9991974
To kill a mockingbird

>>9991974
Ulysses. Pretentious, sloppy, ridiculous.

>>9992169
your post. hello, my, waifu

>>9991974
Either scarlet letter or great gatsby

i didn't read anything that is shit. Why would I buy a shit book?

>>9991974
well infinite jest was a pain to read, but i got something out of it.

2666 is the most overrated novel anyones ever recommended to me.

but i guess the novel my professor published was pretty shit. seems like a joke that a hack is allowed to teach others.

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>>9992185

>>9992194
Were you never forced to read anything in High-school or middle school?
>>9992199
The fuck is that???

Blood Meridian.

>>9991974
A Farewell to Arms

>>9992049

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the only book i've ever dropped halfway without intending to read it again? sartre's "nausea."

what a horrible book

>>9992215
That is not very nice, Anon.

>>9992208
about a priest that turned atheist, and talks about shit

This
>>9992049

>>9992222
Checked.

I could not make it through chapter 1 of Fifty Shades... The narration was so so bad. None of the sentences harmonized. The characters never expressed complex thought. Nor did the author. I hate E.L. James.

>>9991974
Turtles all the way down

>>9991974
Divirgent.

Yes, I read divirgent.

Some former friend told me it was good.

Said friend was a faggot too.

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>>9991974
Just a library pull that I regretted. Made it to maybe chapter three.
It was like a new age Isaac Asimov

>>9991974

Unironically Dune

the world building was very cool but the writing was so god fucking awful and Paul was such a boring characterless Mary Sue

"Paul knew by the way so-and-so wiped his nose that he was trained in the ways of such-and-such"

...oh, DID he?

>>9991974
Twilight really was dreadful

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>4.6 on goodreads
Makes me want to kill all normies.

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>>9991974
Your post

>>9992377
I have learned that anything below a 3.0 or above a 3.9 on goodreads is actually shit. All the great novels have scores of about 3.6 to 3.9

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>It was a simple plan. She would help him pass algebra. He would help her win the student election. What could go wrong?

>>9992396
Interesting, now that I think about it you might be right.

>>9992396
Anna Karenina, War and Peace and the vast majority of Dostoevskij's works are above 4.0

anything and everything by pynchon, pomo was a mistake

>>9992169
When you misuse the word "pretentious", it's a dead giveaway that you're not very intelligent. Find your own way to criticize shit, stop hiding behind reddit's choice phrases. Ulysses is so far from pretentious that I'm positive you've never read it.

>>9992058
It's still the greatest children's novel of all time.

>>9992199
Cum e? O tot vad pe fb, spune-mi cat de nasoala e inainte sa cedez si sa o cumpar din curiozitate.

>>9992434
>>9992422
Nevermind. Solaris has a 4 star rating. I'd say my deduction was still accurate though.

If it's anything below, it's probably self-published fanfiction garbage. If it's above that score, it's too good to be true, and probably beloved by normies.

>>9992455
This

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>school
>analyse the extract from the beginning of the book
>first line "Hale knew they meant to murder him"
>read through, conclude that Hale is being chased by someone and is terrified
>'his bitten nails', 'nervous temperament'
>"No Anon, him thinking that he is being murdered is a metaphor for being in a large crowd
[his job is to be spotted in public: people win money if they see him and say a certain phrase holding the newspaper he works for]
>can't refute because I only have the extract
>week later get a copy
>Hale is literally murdered in the next chapter

It also reads like trash. Antagonist has constant mood swings. Protagonist is a 'women who wants to stop evil and has large breasts'.

>>9992481
>Solaris
You're my type of nigga.

>>9992377
My friend who considers himself intelligent told me this is the best book he ever read. What do I think of him now?

>>9992455
I used the word "pretentious" just fine. Secondly, I've never used reddit. You can believe I read the book or not. It's no skin off my nose, butthurt faggot.

>>9992194
If you have always been in a position to read exactly the kind of books you want to at a moments notice, you have led an extremely boring life with ridiculous amounts of comforts.

On topic: plethora of very poor detective novels and and some extremely shitty teen romance novels. I've spent 1,5 years of my life on sea and i've travelled abroad a lot... and i lived majority of my childhood in a place where we could visit library maybe once or twice a month. Shittiest books that i've paid for though? The Night Angel trilogy, i very rarely blindly order books without reading couple pages first but i was on my fantasy phase back then and it came highly recommended by friend so i ordered them... worst buyers remorse i have ever experienced, genuinely awful set of books.

>>9992556
Kill him by shoving the entire Kingkiller Trilogy down his throat page by page like in the movie The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.

>>9992560
How about you defend in what way you think that it is pretentious?

>>9992560
>butthurt faggot
i think you accidentally commented on 4chan instead of youtube

>>9992560
Please explain what pretentious means to you and how that applies to Ulysses. There are definitely ways to criticize the work, but that's not one of them. You're clearly not very intelligent, so I expect you to hide behind more cookie-cutter responses, but I'm genuinely interested in seeing you attempt to back yourself up.

>>9992386
No he didn't!

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>>9992222
SARTRE BTFO

>>9992455
when you make posts like this it's a dead giveaway that you have autism

>>9992685
>How about you defend in what way you think that it is pretentious?
I didn't force myself to read the entire thing, I had no need to and I didn't enjoy it, and I'm not going to write an essay. I have other things to do. However, I will just say this: the story wasn't very interesting to me, to say the least, and it just seemed designed to impress by alluding to other works and having an experimental style (which didn't flow very well). Joyce goes on to do this to a much greater degree from what I've seen of Finnegan's Wake, but that's already pretty well known. That's my take, subjective or not. I guess I don't really care much for modernism in general, though. Anyone is free to disagree.

>>9992696
>i think you accidentally commented on 4chan instead of youtube
If you say so.

>>9992740
>You're clearly not very intelligent
That's probably just you projecting.

>>9991981
same

I used to read D&D and Star Wars EU novels all the time as a kid, I'm sure some of those are probably objectively the worst. I still pick one up every now and then though, because I still like D&D and Star Wars. It's whatever.

>>9991974
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. Biggest fucking garbage I've ever layed my eyes upon.

>>9993029

Ok woah woah woah. I liked it. Why did you hate it?

>>9993022
me but with the Naruto LNs

>>9991974

Sherlock Holmes. Whatever the first book is.

I read it because a girl told told me it was her favourite book. I didn't even tell her I read it. Hated it. A complete lack of discernible talent.

>>9992470
i think speaking in romanian is banable so ->
he speak about very vulgar about this subject

>>9993029
It's a little messy but I had a hell of a fun time reading it when I was younger. I'd say it got me back into reading

>>9992953
Oh yeah? Want to explain why or maybe say something original? I'm willing to bet that you can't.

>>9991974
Anti-Oedipus is purposely obtuse psychobabble used to conceal the fact that the authors had nothing to say.

>>9992985
Read it again after you've read at least 100 books of literature in your entire life.

>>9993141
So if someone reads a ton of YA fiction and lowbrow bestsellers it suddenly becomes perfect? Hardly a convincing argument, anon.

>>9992560
Sperg-tastic post, anon! You fit right in

>>9992377
This was good, but not near as good as its fans believe. It has good worldbuilding but bad character.s

Stranger in a strange land

What were people taking in the 60's that they thought this was good?

holy fucking dunning kruger plebs

jesus

you're all dumb

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>>9992386

V, without a doubt. Didn't enjoy it one bit.

>>9993210
Stranger in a strange land was awesome when I was a kid. But last time I read it was 8 years ago. . .

>>9992539
Thanks mate.

>>9992186
What's wrong with the scarlet letter

Great expectations
Nicholas nickleby
Brothers Karamazov

>>9993339
>Brothers Karamazov is bad
Explain yourself

>>9993431
Ghastly rigmarole

>>9992222

MUD

TOWN

>>9993431

It's just a half assed plot used as an excuse to present quarter assed and undercooked observations on society and religion and philosophy.

And of course if I call it boring then people will claim it's not meant to be enjoyed. It's a serious source of "profound psychological and philosophical insights". And if I point out how trivial and dumbed down and lazy these alleged insights are, people will say, "No, it's not serious, it's hilarious vaudeville!"
Ffs, it had a section where a lazy 10 year old tries unsuccessfully to praise socialism. How lazy can Dostoevsky get?

In addition, but not Dostoevsky's fault, you can't read books like this without realising that the pseudo intellectuals who praise it so much wouldn't give a single shit about it if it was released today. They would even dismiss it solely due to it being a serialisation.

>>9992058
Why?

>>9993475
It's not like it it's been hailed as one of the greatest novels of all times since its publiction by a lot of people

Junkie by William S Burroughs, funny thing is I've never disliked a book so much while reading it that I made a vow to never read any more of his stuff. By chance I met a guy who was doing a doctorate in literature or something and he really praised this guy highly so maybe I'll give him another try some day.

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probably this I guess

>>9993205
>good worldbuilding
No it wasn't, it was inconsistent as fuck. Rothfuss makes magic so simple that a literal child can do it after only a few sessions of practice, but at the same time the common people of his world treat magic like something that's confined to fairy tales. Where are the magic-powered guns and cars? Why doesn't their whole world run on magic?

Fucking Harry Potter had more consistent lore than this shit.

>>9991974
Lord of the Flies.
Its reputation is a big reason why.
The most fucking boring pile of shit I have ever read. And this guy apparently wanted it to be realistic? your fucking joking me if thats true then jesus christ. His plot is so so boring, I heard an interview of his (since I studied the book in english) and he said he didnt include girls because he didnt want it to be about sex.......
Christ. Seriously? I think that would make for a fucking great book. Like the moments in it could be great, a bunch of confused kids exploring sex without societal interference? Like that would, if done well, at least for me anyways. God forbid your book is interesting.
It would just be another bad book if it werent for the status it seems to have.
Its like he hasnt ever met a child in real life, but he has heard about them and thought it would be cool to write them in a book.

>>9993853
Pedofags are not welcome here.

>>9991986
> Ethan Frome

Seconded

>>9993853
>>9993955
You're right but the truth is their would've been sexual stuff between the boys

>>9992985
>Ulysses doesn't flow very well
This is literally the opposite of true
>It's pretentious
How can the most influential book of the last two decades be pretentious?

>>9991981
>>9992988
What was the gist of it?

>>9993853
>too popular
>no child sex
this is what passes for criticism on /lit/

>>9993761
>so simple a child could do it
>Pascal's wager is invalid
Pick one.

>>9993475
>it's just a sequence of events made up by the author to make a broader point about life
Wut

>>9992507
>This book sucks
>doesn't present a criticism of the book
>instead complains about how the book was taught

Good job. Try again.

>>9992058
It's really overrated t b h.

>>9993761
>Rothfuss makes magic so simple that a literal child can do it after only a few sessions of practice,
Even the magisters or whatever acknowledge that what the school does isn't real magic. Its basically just mega-science. They all said that calling the name of an element was real magic, and only like 10 people have ever done it.

>the common people of his world treat magic like something that's confined to fairy tales. Where are the magic-powered guns and cars? Why doesn't their whole world run on magic?
Again, they said that the school is the last place that actually is institutionalized magic.

Did you even read it?

Moby dick.
That book is mine white whale. I've started reading it more than a year ago but I can only manage to read something like 4 or 5 pages per month. It's crazy.

Ah and the vicomte of Bragelonne, but in this case the fault is mine, the translation of that publisher is known for beeing ridiculous. However here is impossible to find that book, so I guess that does not count

>>9994153
Never understood why some find Moby Dick so hard to read. English is not my native language but the novel still read like a breeze to me. Melville's prose is very pleasant. I finished in like a week.

wuthering heights

>>9991974
Well, first off, the worst thing I ever read was a fanfiction that I wrote as a 12 year old. Will give details if desired. Does anyone else have cringey memories along those lines? I would love to hear about it.

Other than that, and whatever crap I read before 15, I had a hard time getting through The Great Gatsby. I'd say it's good for the time period, but for me that is the only appeal. And it's not like Swift's "A Modest Proposal" good for it's time period. If I wrote like Fitzgerald my professor would just write "Awk." all over the page for "awkward syntax." Also, I don't find the characters or story to be anything significant.

>>9993475
I think that it is far more likely that you have a taboo that it broke, and that made it an uncomfortable experience.

To Kill a Mockingbird. It's nothing more than a screed against poor white people.

>>9992058
Personally, I've never read a book quite as eloquent as To Kill A Mockingbird. Her use of the English language is so beautiful, I would kill to sound that intelligently uniform.

I enjoyed the rest of it quite a bit, I would say it might have been one of my favorite reads, but it has been 3-4 years so I don't feel qualified to say anything else. I haven't read Go Set a Watchman, yet, either.

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My own writing.

>>9994204
When I was eleven, a girl and I tried to write a screenplay together for a Sailor Moon movie. We were both pretty religious and raised in conservative Christian families, and she kept trying to make Usagi (Sailor Moon's real identity) go to Sunday school, and make the Sailor Scouts make speeches about how the bad guys are being un-Christian and shit.

I remember facepalming even though I was just as religious as she was, but the real cringe comes from the fact that I thought, if we stuck to the tone of the show, we could pitch it to "the people who make Sailor Moon" and get our movie made, so I was pissed she kept trying to make it a religious thing because that's not how the anime was and I thought that would prevent it from being made.

>>9992985
The Iliad and Ulysses really helped contribute to my analytical skills. It's the perfect thing to hand to a 12-14 year old and really have them learn something from it.

I also don't feel like writing an essay to defend it, either, but I feel this is an important thing to point out. Something like To Kill A Mockingbird, while beautiful, was just a fucking joy ride (even if it does involve a lettle bet of thinking for a 12 yo).

>>9994280
Heh, 11 year olds. You've got admit their passion is sweet.

You still a Christian-fag?

>>9994302
Nope. I'm unironically an egoist/Stirnerite.

Protip: He was pretty edgy, but he was a lot less edgy than most people think.

>>9991974
Usually I won't read through if I really hate it. But one of the worst books I've read through was Mother Night by Vonnegut. I could feel the Reddit oozing over me.

>>9992302
this

>>9993694

Junkie is pulp. Burroughs wanted to title the book "junk" because it would have simultaneously described the book. Naked Lunch is a treasure. Nova Express is hard to swallow, but part of an amazing extra-literary project.

>>9991974
unironically?
The Dinner Party by Joshua Ferris, I wanted to explore new characters, but every character is the same; Ferris has no style, no substance and nothing worth noting in the banality of his writing.

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>>9994065

>doesn't criticise the book
>reads like trash
>weak main characters

But okay

>>9994381
Really? Read it when I was younger so I don't remember what was so wrong with it. Elaborate pls

>>9991974
my diary desu

my year of meats by ruth ozeki. hated a lot of feminist, oppressed peoples lit forced down my gullet in pomo classes at uni but that was one of the stand-out worsts

>>9995155
It's been a at least a year since I've read it if not longer but it seemed lazily written... hackneyed and immature.

>>9994082
No I stopped right after the ginger fag's parents died because I couldn't bear to read any further. It was so horrible and so asinine that I think my time would have been better spent had I chosen to read furry fart fetish fanfiction.

>mega-science
Why doesn't their entire world run on this mega-science then? Why doesn't every single person in their world do the shit that child Kvothe does with binding objects together and so on? That alone would make housework a lot easier. But no, only little special snowflake Kvothefuss can do it because he's just so much better and smarter than everyone else.

>>9991974
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell

>>9995454
>Why doesn't their entire world run on this mega-science then? Why doesn't every single person in their world do the shit that child Kvothe does with binding objects together and so on? That alone would make housework a lot easier. But no, only little special snowflake Kvothefuss can do it because he's just so much better and smarter than everyone else.
you gotta pay to study there, and it's still a middle ages setting so people don't normally move from the place where they were born, with the exception of gypsies.

doesn't mean other people teaching the shit in other places is impossible so it still doesn't make sense, which would still be hard because education gap

>>9991974
This OP.

>>9992169
>A book about constant sacrifice is pretentious.
You're a retard, anon.

>>9995473
>>9995473
Wouldn't every single noble in their world and anyone with money for that matter make it their top priority to find their kids a tutor who can teach them that shit? It would be interesting to see a societal divide along those lines, with filthy non-science peasants and elevated science-wielding nobility. And even with the education gap in mind, their world should be full of science-based technologies that have pushed them out of the middle ages long ago. But no, Rothfuss would spontaneously combust if he ever wrote anything remotely interesting or daring.

>>9992186
Yes, finally someone taking a swing at the Gatsby meme!

>>9992212
What a gay title.

It's only a short story but The Smile by Bradbury is monumentally shite, especially since he's supposed to be good at short stories.

Winter Stories by Isak Dinesen. Couldn't stand her smug, pseudo-mythological tone and her didactic plots. It's got great reviews on goodreads and elsewhere and I've never seen anyone agree with me on this.
Another one I had to put down less than a quarter of the way through is Tropic of Cancer. I love Céline, I liked John Fante, I even enjoyed Bukowski but somehow Miller seemed much worse than any of the above, including the latter.

>>9994018
>How can the most influential book of the last two decades be pretentious?
You're not going to like the answer.

>>9995493
>thinks sacrificing my time wouldn't be pretentious
Go fuck yourself, anon.

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Fuck this shit

>>9991981
This to be honest but it's my younger brother's first draft a novel

He keeps saying he re-drafts it each week and he's on his twentieth draft but he really doesn't alter much, just the spelling and some of the names. A draft takes longer than a week, usually.

He's going to study writing at university this year and, although I know the memes about courses like that, I do hope he learns how to structure, outline and write better while also being encouraged to read more / to spend more time re-writing and re-drafting.

>>9992407
is this a john hughes screenplay what the fuck

The Kite Runner
My English teacher loved that piece of shit. She loves Harry Potter too. She scolded me for not having the "suspension of disbelief" to handle the latter half of the book

>>9995795
If anything, you're the one who's pretentious here.

>>9992560
Sorry, anon, but it sounds like it is YOU who is the butthurt faggot

>>9993694
Junkie is fine if you're interested in drug peddling and diluting heroin and morphine, but other than that it doesn't offer much. I remember reading it at 14 thinking it was kinda cool but tedious too.

Give Burroughs another shot though. Naked Lunch is pure filth and you'll need a shower when you're done with it.

>>9994258
is little witch academia worth watching or is it just qt anime grills to screencap: the show

>>9994249
>Her
I didn't realize Harper Lee was a woman. Suddenly /lit/'s hatred of this book makes a lot more sense.

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"poetry"

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>>9995834
>>9995835
Kek. Nice autism.

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>>9995965
>No argument was detected.
No brain either.

>>9995127
> that image

I fucking hate the mid to late-00s.

>>9995965
> has to have the final word

Kek. Nice hyper-turbo-autism, spastic.

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>>9995984
Y-yeah h-hate.

>>9995995
The hot topic teen inside you will never leave and you should be forever embarrassed by it.

It's even worse if that phase in your youth lasted into your twenties.

every time I look at the front page of /lit/ the front page of /lit/ at that exact moment becomes the worst thing I have ever read

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Pic related. Boring writing that uses the premise (admittedly interesting) as a means to excuse the rest of the uninteresting plot. As a comment on racialised society it adds nothing. Legitimately something I would expect to be written by a 16 year old.

It's just YA but I had it recommended to me.

>BLACK PEOPLE AND WHITE PEOPLE ARE REVERSED
>DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU THINK?
>>9995833
Kite Runner was mediocre at the start and just got silly at the end.

>>9996055
W-what should I-I do?!

>>9995983
>No brain either.
I see that STEM degree paid off.

>>9995990
> has to have the final word
Can't handle a response, huh?

Keep crying. I'm not seeing any real counterarguments as to why Ulysses is so great.

>>9993243
I'm not sure how to feel about yms dot or's makeover

>>9996068
lol

>>9996055
I never dressed like that, and I agree with you in principle, but I've fucked two girls that dressed like that and they still hold the top two spots for the best fucks I've ever had. There's something about that hair and the way they do their makeup that makes me want to facefuck them until they cry.

The time paradox from Philip Zimbardo is the only book I've never finished. It's a complete trash and I hate my father for ever giving it to me.
The Alchemist and The little prince are just pure trash. Exupéry is such a Holden it makes me sick.

>>9996083
>I see that STEM degree paid off.
I did actually, thank you.
Also, have you heard of descriptivist grammar?

>>9996105
>*I = It

>>9992377
Roothpuss is top tier normie

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>>9993955
>>9994031
>Realised how peadophilic that sounded
I`m not a peado guys.

>>9993042
It was a cringy as fuck. It felt like it was written for adolescent boys/sexually frustrated virgins and the characters were reddit tier.
>>9993066
Yeah, try reading it now anon.

>>9992407
>this is not the plot of What Happened by HIllary Rodham Clinton

>>9991974
>>9991981
Yeah me too, except he wasn't a friend just an university colleague. He was studying philosophy and the guy pulled a 'Michael Bolton'.

>>9996168
Yeah, you really butchered that phrasing.

Notes from Underground, it read like a spergy rant thinly disguised as fiction.

>>9991974
East Is East, pure cringe.

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>>9995851
The OVAs are definitely worth watching
The show is a mixed bag that turns to shit once the overarching plot gets introduced

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I don't know if it's the WOAT but this thing was the worst in recent memory. I expected A LOT more historical stuff and general spookiness not some mary sue on the bayou detective shit.

>>9994571
He was a doped up perv spilling his guts on the page. Boys running around in rainbow-colored jockstraps? The tangy smell of penetrated anus? Come on.

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sucked

>>9992212
this

everything is illuminated

>>9992985
>me me me me me me me
I HATE readers like you. Please please rethink the way you respond to books. Consider they have nothing to do with you, and their quality is not predicated on your intuitive responses to them, nor your judgments on how you think it tries to present itself to other people. Its got nothing to do with people. Fucking escape yourself for just a minute would you???

>>9993853
The book was a direct response to The Coral Island and Britian's ignorance and misgivings concerning colonization. Needlessly sexualizing it would detract from that message.

Also what 7 year old wants to have sex what is wrong with you?

>>9996610
Is this pasta?

I really could not stand Heart of Darkness. Purple prose everywhere. It was insufferable. It has merit in it's own right and objectively isn't bad, but I couldn't stand the prose and the elongated metaphors. I read it in high school and after watching Apocalypse Now, it made me want to come back to see if that might have altered my opinions of it, so I probably will at some point.

>>9992169
It's not sloppy, it is ridiculous and pretentious (unless one wants to argue that "It does what it sets out to do" makes it not pretentious, which isn't really the case.

>>9993853
I agree that LotF is overrated, but including girls would have turned into a completely different (worse) book.

>>9993192
Literature implies a certain level of quality

>>9995493
how is it about sacrifice?

my backside oh jesus oh the jews remember shakespeare my backside heres me randomly thinking do we have milk - joyce

>>9991974
most of the stuff i write.

>>9992985
>feels qualified to judge a piece of literature before he's read it at least 3 times, let alone finish it at all
Please neck yourself

>>9997300
Is this some kind of irony? If not then more fool you. I'll pitch in for the rope, though, if you want to practice what you preach.

>>9991974
The road

The Handmaid's Tale

>>9992222
Please explain, I just bought a copy this week.

Oryx and Crake. And then finding out afterwards that she refuses to admit she writes sci-fi is baffling.

>>9991974
Finnegans Wake in Chinese

>>9998908
It's a good concept, but damn does it take forever to get anywhere. You're reading it and a fifth of the way in you get what the main character's duty is, but they don't get to it until half-way through the book. And even then you don't have any reason to give a shit about the protagonist.

>>9992481
Checked for humorous literature. Doesn't work, probably because people like funny books more.
Almost every Wodehouse book scores over 4.0. Good Soldier Švejk, too.

>>9999213
i have never been this spooked

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Someone's little red book.

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Persuasion by Jane Austen

>>9996104
>Exupery is trash
Ok that's the first thing here that triggered me. Good job, anon. It's always interesting to see how differently people can think/feel.

>>9998620
The Road is one of my favourite books. What sort of stuff do you like ?

Cell by Stephen King. I hated this piece of shit. He took a weak idea--a fucking WEAK idea (oh like, what if, like, I turn into a zombie when I use my cell phone? Duhhhhh)--and fucking shit out a drab, droll, meandering novel in which I could root for no one. NO ONE. The characters were one dimensional ( Hey I gotta get back to my senpai'ly!), the plot preposterous, the zombies worse than Jim Sterling's asset flips. I hated this book. Hated hated hated hated it.

>>10000737
senpapely equals senpai'ly. Auto correct.

>>10000741
What the fuck? Okay, family. So much for sarcasm. I still hated this book.

>>10000741
Family?

>>10000737
Private army time folks. Let's find every copy of Cell we can and burn it.

Oh and....senpapily. Whatever the fuck that means.

>>9992194
You judged it by its cover

>>9991974
The glass castle
Black like me
Had to read both for English in HS.

Brideshead Revisited, what an absolute piece of garbage. Epic "restrained" writing, extremely cold and unfeeling. I'll never read anything by Waugh again.

>>9991974
A guy I used to work with wrote a book despite having only ever read two books in his whole life (he was in his 40s). It was truly awful. That or Filth by Irvine Welsh

I really hated Tuesdays With Morrie, anyone else have to read this in school?

>>9992169
really?

>>10000929
You read his worst well known work

When I was in 9th grade or so, I read a book called Switch by Carol Snow. As a connoisseur of the body swap genre, I can say this was garbage.

First of all, I hate it when the title refers to body SWITCHING when there really isn't any switching. For the most part, the MC has some ghost friend borrow her body so while MC gets to run around as someone else, the other person is in limbo or some shit until she switches back.

The titular switch is more of a straight up swap, but it's still completely pointless because you never see the recipient in the MC's body again until the very end where she basically has no reaction whatsoever to the events. She comes back and is like "lol this happened".

Going off of point 2, it was pointless because we never learn about the recipient as a person, I think, at least on any deep level. She's only good for her body to serve as basically wish fulfillment for the MC, meaning you really didn't need a body swap for that.

Other than that it's minor stuff like I don't think anyone gets much development other than the MC. I don't know. 9th grade was like 7 years ago for me.

>>10000929
Really? I loved it, the whole thing felt super nostalgic and heartfelt. The ITV adaptation with Anthony Andrews and Jeremy Irons is great as well. Try The Loved One, it's hilarious if you're into really bleak, sad humor.

>>10000737
Oh wow, another person misusing "droll". Color me surprised.

>>9993475
THIS

Some books I've knew werw shit in the first 30 pages or less.

The worst books I ever read cover to cover were ones written by Patricia Cornwell, Brad Thor or Tom Clancy. Utter trash but thats all I had to pass the time.

>>9992186
Scarlet Letter was probably one of the worst classics I've read.

>>9992222
I'm trying to find that book for 1 year.

>>9995833
YA and genre fiction recommended by a graduated English major, oh boy. Sounds familiar. My university teacher told us to read A Walk to Remember for the oral exam. One fag read it to get an A, he regretted it hard after that. She was teaching us contemporary English btw, not literature. And she is supposed to be a nice teacher.
I'd rather be taught by those bitches in high school who made us read The Picture of Dorian Grey and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

>>9995874
Virginia Woolf was a woman and she isn't hated on /lit/ that much.

Actually I don't remember reading bad books except part of some part of harry potter.

>>9991974
The Diary of Helen Keller

This isn't a joke. Its a real book. A real diary of a woman who was deaf, mute, and blind.

She spends the last half of the novel writing letters to famous people.

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>>10002613
Veritably.

>>10004870
Yep, I miffed that one. Damned if I didn't always think it was another way to describe droll. My bad and thanks for helping me get it right. (checked it on merriam-webster).
I still hate Cell.

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is all French literature this boring before I go any further

>>9991974
I tried jumping back into this board after being gone for a year or two. This whole board is the worst thing I have ever read.