What are some books /lit/ told you were good, but ended up being shit?

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>>9992275

OP is a faggot.

So it goes.

Stoner. Just underwhelming, not absolute garb.

>>9993539
Fuck's sake, you actually replied to this bait?

>>9993548
if you don't attach a picture with the hook and a fish it doesn't count

>>9993646
are you shitposting because I just bought it
what's wrong with it

Watership down

>>9993746
idk why he said that, probably some pseud who thinks he already knew everything in it
its a good book, anon

the Harold Bloom poetry anthology
Bloom's commentary is pretentious, long winded, and sometimes fringe and blusterous. The poems are good, but Norton's is a far better anthology

>>9993787
thanks mate

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Yet I think about it quite often...

>>9992275
The Greeks
All of them

>>9992275
>>9993539
Both these, plus Book of Numbers

>>9994638
I'm about 100 pages into this and I'm bored out of my skull. I keep hoping it's going to get better.

>>9994732
Which iliad did you read

>>9994743
It doesn't

>>9994638
>>9994743
stick with his short stories. they're more tolerable, and kinda fun to over analyze them to bits

>>9992275
You start