Whats the worst book you've ever read?
the crying of lot 49
my diary, detbhsu
The way of men
ulysses
I still don't believe someone memed me into reading Ready Player One
Memeing aside, 1Q84
a legacy of totalitarianism in a tundra
>>7523605
I'm reading it now. It's not really a book, just a series of disjointed chapters.
>>7523541
Moby Dick
>>7523626
Shoot me
Ethan Frome
>>7523633
they even had the audacity to copyright it
>>7523626
I wish I could revive Shakespeare just so he could read this and I could watch his reaction.
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The Name of the Wind.
It's as if a god took everything I hate and condensed it into a single book.
To say that I despise it completely is an understatement. There's nothing - NOTHING - in this world that's ever made me as mad or as hateful.
A Prayer for Owen Meany.
>>7523585
Reading it now and I actually find some of the arguments compelling. Like homophobia as a reaction to 'flamboyant dishonor'. Going to sleep now but feel free to respond and I'll get back in time
>>7523628
this. Moby Dick was so booooooooooooooooring.
>>7523695
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT BOOK? I THOUGHT IT WAS OKAY.
>>7523640
>work of fiction
>any resemblance to actual persons is entirely coincidental
?????
also the worst book i've ever read is song of solomon (morrison)
>>7523809
You're right. My mistake. Let me go lop off a finger as punishment.HARDNESS WETNESS HARDNESS WETNESS HARDNESS WETNESS
>>7523592
This desu
Harry potter
On Kindness, by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor
Probably Under the Volcano, considering worse books took less effort. Not that it was a real brain-strain, but for its relative difficulty, 0 reward and lack of originality it was really awful, and when I realized just how boring and pointless it was I was already at the point of thinking I may as well finish it.
It actually reminded me alot of the time I tried to read Infinite Jest.
Oh, and also Gravity's Rainbow. I've agreed with almost everything /lit/ likes and, hell, I love Pynchon (M&D is a treasure), but GR is straight awful.
Island by Huxley
Genuine 'hack'
Taipei
Tao Lin
Dead Space: Martyr
416 pages, and Necromorphs are only in the final 40 or so.
The Road if we are talking adult books but I have read some worse YA that I can't really remember
>>7523541
The Wars by Timothy Findley
There are many, many horrible books that I abandoned, but the worst one I actually finished was Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite, which just made me incredibly depressed by the way it seemed to be some sort of escapist fantasy, but a profoundly disgusting one written by someone who obviously had some serious problems. It was almost funny in a way, but mostly pathetic.
>>7523541
Finnish translations of A Song Of Ice and Fire
Some English publisher's version of ASOIAF (so many typos)
SOme Finnish book about dude that doesn't know he is dead and lives his life from the start to the end only to end up relaizing he was dead and smelly.
ham on rye - charles bukaki
an american dream by normal mailer
>>7523689
This.
It reads like the product of me -- someone who's never written anything and has hardly read any fantasy -- trying to write a fantasy novel.
Fahrenheit 451 or Catcher in the Rye.
Your favourite.
first game of thrones desu. was gifted the box set and got like 1.5 books in and was like RIP this tree, sorry you died and became a pile of shit. and I buried it out back.
Bad Monkey by Carl Hiassen (got it as a gift, felt obligated to read it) or Post Office by Charles Bukowski.
I don't finish books that I don't like.
>>7523964
this
2nd place is brighton rock
>>7523600
uh huh, that's the worst book you've EVER read? the absolute worst? you've never read maybe a YA book when you were younger, or some crappy celeb """"autobiography""""?
Maybe if I read it today I might like it better, but in school it was literally the one book that I never read, I had good enough grades in English that I didn't need to.
This Garbage right here.
I knew nothing about it before picking it up along with some christmas purcharses at Waterstones, the blurb read as if it was some kind of wacky Douglas Adams type stuff, so I thought what the hell I'll give it a shot for somethind light to read at chrismas, between mince pies and port binges.
After reading two chapters last night I feel as if I've been mugged, raped, been recorded and had the videos posted on youtube, where everyone laughs at me in the comments.
This is the worst thing I've ever read it is the manifestition of the "LOL so randumz" stuff that is supposed to pass for humour or surrealism in the mind of today. It has no plot, no characterisation, makes no sense and has no clear narrative voice. It's random for the sake of being random.
It reads like some idiot teenager wrote it as a school paper, which by all rights would be marked ungraded. I feel personaly insulted from reading it and have thrown it in the bin, it's sheer awfulness upsert me so much.
Only now I have become more furious after looking on review sites for cathartic bad reviews and noting that it has glowing, near universal praise on Amazon and good reads, the chief of all praise came from Phat Rothfuss (another rod to beat his bloated carcass with).
I read the name of the wind years ago and finished it (so you can see I have a high tolerance for awful books), bought the second book and skipped about a third of it, now I'll never buy anything from that crank again.
To rub salt in the wounds I found out the authors hate Lovecraft as he's an icky racist and are loved by the Reddit and Tumbr crowd for their podcast.
In short 7/10 bretty good
>>7523700
I didn't find his arguments convincing, and I felt his ideas are actually detrimental to the formation and persistence of "a tribe". He seems really anti woman and when I found out jack is gay it made a lot more sense. His evolutionary augments seemed pretty weak too.
I'm sorry I can't get into specifics, I read it a year ago so the details are fuzzy. I mostly just remember my thoughts after reading the book.
The Martian probably. The premise kept me reading just to see how it ended really, but in terms of writing it was probably the single worst published work I have ever read.
The characters are entirely one-dimensional, the prose is awful, the dialogue is banal and completely unengrossing, and the """"humour"""" is so cringe worthy it hurts. Weir very clearly isn't a writer and equally as clearly didn't have an editor, yet he somehow has a book published. I don't know what's more depressing: the obvious shallowness and pandering of the industry, the people who actually buy the shit they shove out, or how apparently nobody has given the book a bad review, indicating that 'critics' evidently like it as a good work of literature. It's mind-boggling really.
I understand that publishers need to make money to survive so they have to publish what's popular, not what's good, it's just a shame seeing it happen in reality.
It also pisses me off that it has a really nice cover considering how bad of a book it is.
>>7524224
Fahrenheit 451 is the worst book you've ever read?
Nah m8
>>7523600
I could not agree more. What a repetitive, drawn out, hollow mass of a book.
The Chosen, by Chaim Potok
The driest and least rewarding book I've ever read.
>>7524294
I loved that book in middle school. Doubt I would like it now, beyond nostalgia.
In the Skin of a Lion.
>>7523592
Agreed.
>>7523541
Either a Magic the Gathering novel with druids, or a Warhammer 40k novel with space elves. I only read bits of both, but they scarred my mind.
Easily Gravities Rainbow. An incoherent mess ripped off of ww2 movies.
>>7523605
Pleb, more like the greatest book ever written.
Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuck.
>>7523592
i got memed into reading it too, but at least i had the common sense to stop after the first chapter or so.
>>7523541
>ctrl+f
>Atlas Shrugged not found
You dissappoint me /lit/
>>7524792
That's because no one on this board is dumb enough to actually read that book
Without a doubt, pic related is the worst book I've ever read. I don't think anyone really expects a YA novel to be very good, but this book was a new level of godawful.
>>7524792
It definitely sucks, but it wasn't really the worst book ever
>>7524852
FUCK
>>7524399
He does come off as anti-woman. This is something that bothers me about so many contemporary figures lashing out against sjws. Few ever seem to accept the ying-yang type of balance between the sexes and dependency of each on the other. Instead they view it as a dichotomy analogous to political parties or sports teams. For example, whrn Donovan explains the necessity of self-sufficiency in being a good man, he writes: "The 'men refuse to stop and ask for directions' joke never seems to get old for women, who are more comfortable with dependence, or socialist types, because reducing men to a childlike state of supplication and submission to state bureaucrats is required for big-government welfare states to function. Masculine loathing of dependence is a bulwark to the therapeutic mother state. " He comes off as very bitter in this way.
I still however find his explanations for homophobia very compelling. Didn't know he was gay himself though, that is very peculiar. Almost makes him seem self-loathing.
>>7524473
I thought it was bullshit how whiny and immature he depicted a professional astronaut. Wasn't funny in the slightest. Also, yea, waste of a pretty cover.
>>7523541
a feast for crows
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
>>7524756
Same. One of those things that wouldn't bother me nearly as much if there wasn't such a vocal fanbase.
>>7525171
is there a better book in the same vein? I'd be interested in reading a redpilled book that wasn't shit.
>>7523802
so true ughh ive wasted my life with some pretty stupid things but reading moby dick was the only thing i deeply regret.
>>7523592
Holy shit my friend said it was a cool, fun, short, quick read. While it was a short and quick read it was neither cool nor fun. It was like the author went to the wikipedia page 1980's in technology and 1980's and pop culture and shat that out into a half assed novel that only appeals to the dumbest of man children. This is coming from a man child himself.
>>7525203
I haven't read many contemporary right-leaning novels, but the Camp of the Saints is an incredible example of life imitating art in the realm of immigration.
>>7523969
Nigga it was about the beginning of it all. Plus, the buildup to it was what made it cool and scary when it actually finally happened.
Naked Lunch. That's not a joke, the book is a pile of shit
Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce. It's a pile of shit that was written to be 'artistic' but came out like this.
http://www.finwake.com/1024chapter1/fw01.htm
Monday Mourning, never finished it
>>7525264
>Europe has an influx of refugees
>A apocalyptic book about how immigrants destroy Western civilization
>"Life imitates art"
Life is still missing a few steps for that to happen
>>7525179
Uh, do you by any chance live in South Africa? Random question.
The Count of Monte Cristo
FUCK DUMAS holy shit how could you ruin such a fascinating plot?
>>7523688
How so? I honestly loved the book, and it seemed pretty inoffensive, if a little protohippy-ish.
a confederacy of dunces. what a fucking piece of shit.
also, when i was a bit younger a friend of mine begged me to read a dirty job by christopher moore. to this day i still can't believe what ungodly trash that book was.
>>7524336
The podcast can be pretty amusing in small doses. I can imagine why a novel of it would be shitty though. It really only works because of the radio broadcast format the podcast has going, without that it's area 51 conspiracy theories mixed with tumblr humor.
>>7523802
>reading for enjoyment
sure is reddit in here
>>7523985
Really dude? I found it to be gritty, visually beautiful and philosphic all at the same time
Moby Dick. Forcing myself through that piece of shit is a huge regret.
>>7524135
Exquisite Corpse was definitely gross but I don't think it was bad, I enjoyed it but then again I love violent gay sex and
Worst books I've read:
- The Sun Also Rises
- Farenheit 451
- Taipei
All pretty bad
This
>>7523949
I loved Island. What did you hate so much about it. His love of psychedelics was very prevalent in this book, that's the only thing that really bothered me. Other than that, I thought it was better than BNW
>>7527092
Not OP but I found the characters pretty one dimensional. Considering the book focused on mostly a father with his son. I would have expected a little more depth. The book kinda just drones on for 300 pages. Not the worst book I've ever read, but definitely not the best either.
>>7527150
I just finished the sun also rises. It was pretty much my intro to Hemmingway. From everything I've read Robert Cohn is supposed to be one of Hemmingways most unforgettable characters. Guy was supposed to be a boxer and shit. Realistically he gets cucked by his girlfriend then knocks some motherfuckers out, then disappears forever. I was pretty disappointed desu. Other than Robert Cohns cuckoldry I actually enjoyed it
>>7525179
Louis CK has a great bit about basically this, but in the movie Gravity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHH-CsuSg9c
It's an interesting paradox. Astronauts are basically the closest thing we have to perfect people, so it would make sense to portray them as one-dimensional and boring, completely obsessed with their job. But that makes for pretty shitty reading unless your really into the actual processes and technology and such.
On the other hand, portraying astronauts as reluctant, conflicted individuals is insanely unrealistic.
None of these are the worst books you've ever read and you know it. You just don't want to admit to some of the trash you've read.
>>7523541
Briar rose
Had to read it in high school. It was poorly put together and consisted of a Jew whos grandmother was in a death camp but was saved by partisans
It had a wierd thing going on with the brothers Grimm fairy tale briar rose, it also had a graphic man on man sex scene
>>7527049
isn't reading for beauty, character, theme, philosophy, and cultural relevance also reading for enjoyment?
>>7527151
>reads the story advertised as the worst work of fiction of all time
>is surprised to find it actually is the worst fiction of all time
>mfw
>>7524583
The prose is terrible, and he's constantly repeating words and phrases.
I couldn't get past ~120 pages because of how bad and boring it is.
>>7524294
Funny, that is the exact book that got me into reading as a child.
>>7527169
Fair enough. That's kinda why I like it though, that's all that's left in their world, the father and son and the world just kinda drones on
>>7523541
First part of the borrible-trilogy. Didn't even finish it.
>The protagonists speak cockney.
>They have many saying and practices such as
>"Never stand behind a door when there's someone coming through the other side"
>mfw this is supposed to be profound
>mfw he managed to type three volumes of this crap
Now I gotta show the world how it's done. Fuck! They say that great springs from love and labor. I say that it can also spring from hate and struggle.
>>7527162
It wasn't literature, just didactic trash. Also, his incessant name dropping. Not any use of allegory or any of that, just literally name dropping writers. You could what Russell said about him was true, that "you could always tell from his conversation which volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica he'd been reading. One day it'd be the Alps, Andes and Apeninnes, and the next it would be the Himalayas and the Hippocratic Oath"
>>7527206
Yes, thank you. Louis said precisely what I was going for.
Nasa: Do you want to be an astronaut
Applicant: I mean, I guessss...
Nasa:GET THE FUCK OUT
That's exactly what would have happened to Andy Weir's character. Astronaut's have the most "heart and soul required" profession out there.
>>7526974
US, why?
>>7526837
A lot of the cultural aspects follow exactly. Celebrities eating it up yet never being the ones to suffer the consequences being a big one you can see every day.
>>7528233
>Astronaut's have the most "heart and soul required" profession out there.
Because the numbers of astronatus are kept down artificially.
We should have left the "Oh, just listen to these magic space men and their interesting stories about TP in zero-g"-state behind us by now.
>>7525179
>I thought it was bullshit how whiny and immature he depicted a professional astronaut.
You're a professional astronaut, writing an account of history in the making. Do you start it with the insertion of foul language? Weir is an idiot.
Anything Dune by Herberts son.
walden desu
The End of Alice. God, what a fucking wreck.
>>7523541
Your diarrhea, tbhfam.
Probably Invisible Man. I just couldn't get through it.
i read part of a million pieces by james frey review
it reads like a palahniuk novel by someone who can't write and takes himself too seriously. had a lot of gimmicky repetition and shitty shit, shit book.
Read Angela Carter's 'Heroes and Villains' in university. Absolute shot. Same goes for No Bones by an Irish female author whose name I cba to remember.
>>7528233
France getting colonized by a boatful of Hindus led by a deformed baby and a guy who eats turds for a living isn't especially prescient. It'd be somewhat different if Raspail had predicted the rise of radical Islam, but instead he wrote "Curry Smells Funny - The Book."
>>7528450
If curry does smell funny to frenchmen, they should have the right to reject the entrance of curry into their homeland. Instead, they are somehow deemed morally deficient if they hold this opinion. Working with your shit analogy here.
>>7524629
is it really that bad? I just picked this up at a thrift store...
>>7528483
>sovereignty
It's 2016, come on!
>>7528483
I wasn't making an analogy. Raspail spends a significant amount of text talking about the smell of curry.
>>7525438
You just didn't get it.
On the Road.
I drudged through it, hated it so much it took me like 6 months to finally finish it. It's just a diary that pretends it isn't. Hipsters had me convinced it was some incredible shit.
>>7527150
i didn't like farenheit 451 either. mostly because it wasn't very interesting to read, kind of felt boring on a prose level. moreover it was thematically trite as fuck. like, i get it, society is corrupt bru bru bru. but then again i read it when i was like 20 so i was kind of above that point. i'd still recommend any loudmouthed moron read it.
>>7528530
It's a work of fictitious literature. Probably a metaphor for the strange and unappealing features of the invaders. Rather than outright saying 'they were disgusting aliens', he attacks their delicacies as being disgusting and alien.
>>7523592
I automatically hate a person if they ever say they liked this book. Even with other books they like that I don't, I'll at least give them the grace of "difference of opinion." If you like RPO, you are a fucking retard.
>>7528364
Swearing can either be an indication of such low status that it doesn't matter what people think of you because you can't go lower, or high status because of the immunity you have.
>>7528605
1. He does outright call them disgusting aliens, which is why the mass migration from India is led by a deformed baby and a guy who eats turds.
2. Curry is a staple food, not a delicacy.
3. Curry is a weird thing to single out since Brits and Germans are crazy for that shit. Have you ever had currywurst?
My point was never "mass immigration is good it's 2016 I can't even." It's just that /pol/lacks hype up Camp of the Saints (and if you're any indication, they seem to have nevet actually read it) as a great work of literature, when it's hamfisted and artless.
>>7528375
He writes an afterword in the edition I read, and he made a lot of errors talking about what had happened in the book, e.g. confusing characters with one another.
I didn't realize he actually wrote a sequel, it was bad enough that he was a son who didn't understand what his father had written.
Walden
Confessions (st augustine)
>>7528543
What didn't I get, enlighten me fuccboi
>>7528721
I was just memeing farn, it is shit.
Blood Ravens Omnibus by Cassern 'Mr Multilaser' Goto. Fucking hell
Fuck-ing hell
>>7523592
Ready Player One is short and very Disney.
I don't think I have the depth of knowledge to be quite so discerning when it comes to literature. I can read literally (if you pardon the pun) anything and get something out of it, regardless of whatever quality there supposedly is attached to the text. The only book that I've disregarded as embarrassingly foetal would be For Us The Living by Heinlein. If you've read the book, you'll know exactly what I mean.
>>7528731
Thank god for that
>>7528664
1. I'm fine with his calling them whatever he likes, my only point was that belittling other aspects of their culture, such as the food, was a way to reduce redundancy.
2+3. No, I don't eat curry, It's not big in the American diet, and the appeal to exotics is ridiculous. Do you actually believe that curry meals would disappear from Britain and Germany with the absence of Asian peoples?
You accuse me of not reading the book, but I find it strange that you keep harping on his use of insults against the hordes, yet from what I remember Raspail was way more disgusted by and denouncing of the rich, sheltered whites who invited the horde in.
I may have tied ideology too much into the book, I'll admit. It was not an elegant read. Yet it was meant as hyperbole in order to highlight very real problems that are even more pertinent now then when The Camp was written.
>>7527447
Very true. Melville finds a way to talk about just about everything on the whaleship in a meaningful way. I was really impressed by the novel and anyone saying it was boring should re-read it a little later in life.
I've seen at least five of my favourite books named ITT kek
The worst books I've ever read were probably what I read of The Fault in Our Stars or The Martian. I hate that fawning, adolescent tripe.
Worst classic I ever read was On The Road, for pretty much the same reasons I hated John Greem.
When an author writes in a contrivedly informal style, or uses slang and colloquialisms way too liberally, I instinctively hate them and their book.
>>7523544
>>7523589
>>7523942
>>7523964
>>7523985
>>7526805
>>7526980
P L E B S
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Animal Farm
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by whoever the fuck wrote that trash. I still question how I managed to get tricked into reading that trash.
>>7529158
I found it pretty funny. I mean it's lower than low brow and as a work of literature has no positive qualities so I can see your point, but still
when he takes a smoke and realizes she's a hacker. That shit killed it.
>>7523942
there is no hope for you
I hated Catcher in the rye so much I stopped reading for 4 years.
In recent memory?
Ms. Peregrine's School for Peculiar Children
Infinite Jest
>>7529043
>When an author writes in a contrivedly informal style, or uses slang and colloquialisms way too liberally, I instinctively hate them and their book.
kekek
The Art of War and Peace
>>7529888
Catcher in the rye is what made me want to start reading at a higher level. First time I really related to a character (not completely though, there was enough mystery to stay intrigued)
>>7524162
This is a great book
>>7523541
you cannot find worse than pic related.
if we are talking fiction though, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves is Tumblr-tier tree-hugging PETA-loving shit, written by an old lady writing like she thinks young people talk, and trying to convince the reader she is intelligent LITERALLY via a narrative device that involves her character using "big words" for the sake of using them. I thought I'd try something new a couple months ago and am still pissed about it.
The Alchemist. Too many fucking "quotable" life lessons that it turned into cheese
>>7529945
I feel a lot of these answers are just attacking books that are "classics." I feel we could be more honest. For example, the twilight series is the worst thing I have ever read hands down, yes I read it. There I said it
>>7523647
He'd probably find it hilarious. Not only are we still reading his work, we're doing shit like this to it.
>>7523640
Dancing Naked In The Mindfield
It's the autobiography of Kary Mullis, the guy who co-invented PCR and co-received the Nobel Prize (yet the other guys who received it don't get a single mention)
It's staggering in that it's the most self-absorbed book I've ever read. There's an entire chapter of how he once "taught something to the wife of the Japanese Tenno", yet when you read it it's clear that she was just humoring him out of politeness.
Then there's a chapter on why global warming is a hoax, why AIDS is a hoax, and one chapter on how much sex he's had in his life.
Then there's another chapter on how he met a glowing talking raccoon in the woods.
>>7523932
nice bait.
>>7523985
nice bait.
>>7524224
diaf.
THE ANSWER IS JOSEPH ANDREWS AND EVERYONE ELSE IS WRONG
ANYBODY THAT THINKS A MOCK EPIC WRITTEN IN PROSE IS A GOOD IDEA IS AUTISTIC
>>7529409
great book.
>>7530005
I hardly read the responses prior to posting in threads like this, just looking for those (You)'s 2bh.
*tips (You)*
>>7530134
I don't know why I responded to your post by the way, I was just trying to leave a general post lol
>>7528795
I'm gradually begin to suspect you can't read.
I never said curry was big in the American diet.
I don't know what "appeal to exotics" is supposed to mean in this context.
I also didn't say that curry would disappear from the British or German diet in lieu of Asians.
You seem to be reading an argument into what I wrote where there is none.
My original post, which contains the only argument that I have presented at all, is that /pol/lacks exaggerate both the literary merit and the prophetic nature of Camp of the Saints. Literarily speaking, it is heavy handed pulp, like most tedious, didactic works. In terms of prediction, third world immigration to Europe had already begun on a mass scale, so Raispal obviously predicted nothing there; and by depicting the "horde" as mostly being naked, street-shitting Hindus, he failed to predict that the most troublesome aspect of mass immigration would be the rise of radical Islam in Western countries.
tl;dr: Raspail failed at writing a good book and he failed at predicting anything.
Great gatsby. Had to read that trash twice. I'm from mn so everyone dangles off Fitzgeralds balls...fuck that guy
>>7530042
I would assume he couldn't comprehend that it was made to cater to a young audience who finds his work boring and intimidating.
He's really into parodies and stuff so he'd probably get a kick out of it not realizing it could possibly be unironic.
Fight club.
The two-things-at-the-same-time as a literary device never catered to me, but so many friends asked me so much time to read it that i just got overhypedand couldn't enjoy it. I actually cringed a little in some parts
But what can i know, i'm a pleb and mostly read history novels. English is not even my first language
>>7524792
I tried reading it. Although it was infuriatingly narrow minded, dogmatic, and childish in its message, it was competently written. If Rand's zealotry wrote for the forces of sanity I might have been a something of a fan.
>>7524473
is the film better than the book?
>tfw a fucking oxford astrophysicist likes the film
>>7529925
Damn, I was actually going to post Journey as a classic that I hated but I didn't want to deal with angry frenchfags
Je n'aime pas.
>>7524283
wew lad
>>7523541
Everything I read by Orwell.
>>7529925
RARE CELINE
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>>7531505
Even Homage to Catalonia and Down and Out in Paris and London?
>>7530036
Wow, this sounds great. I'll have to read it sometime.
>>7523592
This is terrible news. I got memed into buying it
>>7523647
He'd definitely feel amused, and honoured because his work was adapted to the times.
Tbh I'm feeling quite fedora now after this thought experimenté... maybe it's not bad at all, and we're the idiot snobs
American Sniper. Didn't bother to finish, don't know what the hell I was thinking picking it up in the first place.
>>7529043
You should read Trainspotting, you'll kill yourself.
Probably the first LotR book, I never really read any fantasy before that and figured it would be a good starting point into the genre when I saw it for 2 bucks in a store. I gave it 250 pages or so where absolutely nothing transpired before calling it quits. I'm guessing the movies are more eventful.
>>7530423
do you like the movie though, desu?
>>7523541
I purchased most of Hemingway's novels but after reading The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises, I realised I made a huge mistake. His prose has the depth of a puddle, that is to say, none at all. Overrated meme author.
>>7523541
Haunted, by Chuck Palahnuik
>>7524473
this 2bh.
>>7530053
hi imgur
>>7532636
I've also heard Fight Club by him wasn't that good of a book either, but I don't know fully why. I was planning on reading it too, don't know why I read the other one first.
>>7531851
I agree, but some people like that stripped down style
>>7532636
Haunted is probably his best book, it has every element he can work as a writer so as long as you skip the poems you get the full palahniuck experience.
Believe me or not but this book is real and its some garbage bukowski rip-off
Mulberry Lane.
It was a novel about ex-convicts integrating back into a neighbourhood in Australia. I only read part of it and even then some pages were ripped out to be used as toilet paper. If someone else has read it, then I'd be really surprised.
>>7533011
that whole show is a garbage bukowski rip off where it's prettified for normies.
>>7523592
Yep
