literary disappointments thread
>you are depressed
>you buy the divine comedy
>it's not a comedy
>>7738455
I bet you think a comedy is a funny play.
>buy On A Winter's Night's a Traveller
>some weird printing error and it ends after ten pages
>read naked lunch
>it's just a worse version of almost transparent blue
>>7738455
>read back to eden
>it's not about paradise
In the comedy is the happy ending sense not the amusement sense
The Divine Comedy is the divine comedy.
>>7738534
>read naked lunch
>it's not about food openly placed on a table
and i am still hungry
>read The Great Gatsby
>expected something mindblowingly good
>it wasn't bad but didn't really grip me
Not being very memorable is probably the worst thing a book can do.
>>7738455
>The Republic
>just some old guys talking, no Trump
>>7738455
american education
>buy Infinite Jest
>'oh boy I'll never have to buy another book again!'
>it ends
I got fucking tricked
>>7738551
this
to me, the most amazing thing about the Great Gatsby is that people cared about it
>>7738579
I no longer truly believe the Infinite Jest meme, is it a good or bad book?
It looks not to bad...
>>7738612
honestly?
it's bad.
>>7738455
>not laughing at devils in sulphur fragment
>not laughing at dante kicking this guy in pool of shit
Yr pleb
>>7738455
>read two books by fyodor
>The double and white nights
>>7738612
actually?
it's good.
>>7738524
underrated post
>>7738455
>read The Art of the Deal
>expect some Ayn Rand tier "how I did it" type thing
>it is a fucking diary with elementary school prose
>read the illiad
>literally just hector chasing greeks around till Achilles decides to kill him
> go on /Lit/
> oh wait I remember
>read American Psycho
>expect it to be about gruesome murders and containing deep psychological insights
>it's actually a fancy clothing brochure
>>7738455
at least is divine
>>7738455
>implying the part where the demons dip the sinners into molten tar isn't hilarious
