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This is the single worst book I have ever read to completion
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This is the single worst book I have ever read to completion in my life.
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does he even have a good book? i don't like his books
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That's Madonna's favorite book.
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>>8099151
This redounds to the credibility of my appraisal
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>>8099174
Noice
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>>8097788
Is it bad that I instantly cringed when someone IRL was talking about how great it was even though I've never actually read it?
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>>8097788
By far the worst book I ever read to completion, and was told it was a masterpiece.
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>>8099271
Oh god... I remember slogging through that shit back in high school because our sophomore English teacher assigned it. Terrible fucking book.
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>>8099271
Straight up hate this book. Never again
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>>8099271
>>8099277
>>8099340

what's it about? What's to hate senpai? I've never even heard of it.
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>>8097788
Coelho is the mexican murakami
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>>8099350
It's just this horrifically dry book about an abortive New England affair that goes nowhere slowly and ends with one of the most idiotic suicide attempts in literary history.
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>>8099271
What is the name of the book and what is the author's?
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>>8097788
>>8099266

>Talks about how shitty this book is
>doesn't describe what about it sucks
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>>8097788
translated portuguese is awful to read,but besides that,what is so bad about this novel?
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>>8099350
Basically small new england town, awkward affair, sleigh ride that ends badly, all in turgid post-colonial prose by a stereotypical female sentimentalist.
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>>8099380
why so intolerant
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>>8099391
I actually enjoy female authors on occasion, but the stereotype derived somewhere (pic related).

Atwood, Ferrante, Munro; Wharton is not.
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>>8099373
>>8099378
I'm the guy who didn't read it. The guy who talked about it IRL said it was about "going out on a journey only to find that the most important thing was back home all along" which is just the worst sort of pseudo-philosophical drivel.
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>>8097788
its not only bad. its plagiarism.
he stole the story from "Historia de los dos que soƱaron" of borges, a 3 pages story LOL
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This book is his best. Esoteric as fuck.

Brida and Manual of Warrior of Light are also great, and The Alchemist is classic. Smd OP
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>>8097788
Well fuck, this book.
I thought it was trite and superficial when I read it in 9th grade
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>>8099444
>New York TImes Bestselling
Ayyy lmao
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>>8099470
>it sold a lot of copies
>le not underground enough for me

It's still pretty kvlt tbqh.
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>>8099399
>Ferrante

Sorry, who?
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>>8099428
Yeah and Borges lifted the tale of the two dreamers from the 1001 Arabian Nights.
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>>8099480
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Ferrante
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there is a girl i've been talking to who said this was one of the best books she's ever read. She also told me that the bell jar was good, and that wuthering heights was good. They were all literally the worst books i have ever read, but i dont mind because im gonna diddle her in the poo
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