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Name a well-known book or books that you would not recommend
Posted on 5/1/18 at 3:36 pm
Posted on 5/1/18 at 3:36 pm
Limited to "classic" novels "that everyone should read," what books would you recommend a friend avoid. Books that you either hate or just don't get.
The Fountainhead
Catcher In The Rye
The Fountainhead
Catcher In The Rye
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 3:59 pm to Ham And Glass
Red Badge of Courage
If you are going to read Tom Sawyer, read it before Huck Finn. Tom Sawyer is fine, but such a disappointment in comparison.
If you are going to read Tom Sawyer, read it before Huck Finn. Tom Sawyer is fine, but such a disappointment in comparison.
Posted on 5/1/18 at 4:45 pm to Ham And Glass
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
Posted on 5/1/18 at 4:48 pm to Ham And Glass
Dark tower series.
Suck it
Suck it
Posted on 5/1/18 at 4:52 pm to Ham And Glass
Ayn Rand is polarizing.
Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon. That's a love it or hate it book. There's zero middle ground.
Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon. That's a love it or hate it book. There's zero middle ground.
Posted on 5/1/18 at 4:52 pm to Ham And Glass
quote:
The Fountainhead
Anything by Ayn Rand. Awful stuff.
Posted on 5/1/18 at 5:00 pm to The Spleen
Tolerated, almost enjoyed Atlas. Laughed out loud while reading Fountain of Blather.
This post was edited on 5/2/18 at 9:01 am
Posted on 5/1/18 at 9:31 pm to Ham And Glass
quote:as well as Robinson Crusoe and Winter's Tale (Mark Helprin)
Catcher In The Rye
Posted on 5/1/18 at 9:33 pm to Kvothe
quote:I thought the first book was awful and I have zero drive to continue.
Dark tower series.
Posted on 5/1/18 at 9:37 pm to Scruffy
I made myself push through and finish the first. I read like 20 pages of the second and quit.
I don’t get the hype
I don’t get the hype
Posted on 5/1/18 at 9:44 pm to Ham And Glass
The Stand is a gigantic turd.
Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:19 pm to Ham And Glass
Joy luck club
their eyes were watching god
their eyes were watching god
Posted on 5/2/18 at 1:55 am to Ham And Glass
Anything ever written by Thomas Pynchon. God awful stuff.
Posted on 5/2/18 at 5:25 am to Ham And Glass
quote:
Catcher In The Rye
This one easily.
Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:06 am to Ham And Glass
Finnegans Wake
" riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend
of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to
Howth Castle and Environs.
Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen-
core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy
isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor
had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse
to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper
all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to
tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a
kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in
vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a
peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory
end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface."
Opening of the book...wtf???
" riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend
of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to
Howth Castle and Environs.
Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen-
core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy
isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor
had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse
to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper
all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to
tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a
kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in
vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a
peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory
end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface."
Opening of the book...wtf???
This post was edited on 5/2/18 at 7:07 am
Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:08 am to Tigris
quote:
quote:
Catcher In The Rye
This one easily.
I actually like this one...
Posted on 5/2/18 at 8:23 am to Ham And Glass
quote:
Catcher In The Rye
I was coming here to post this.
Posted on 5/2/18 at 8:35 am to alphamicro
quote:
Winter's Tale (Mark Helprin)
One of my favorites ever, but I can see why magical realism and Helprin's writing style wouldn't appeal to someone.
Pynchon - yeah, I don't think I'd recommend him to anyone. I did enjoy Against the Day on audiobook on a long trip; but I'm not sure I would have been able to sit down and read it. Gravity's Rainbow is the one book that has kicked my arse; I've tried 3 times and can't get more than 100 pages in. But I do recognize it as a good book; unlike Catcher in the facking Rye.
Posted on 5/2/18 at 8:37 am to The Spleen
quote:
Anything by Ayn Rand. Awful stuff.
Boooo! Boooo this man!
Posted on 5/2/18 at 11:05 am to Ham And Glass
Great expectations
Great Gatsby
Wuthering heights
Turns out the "best" American literature is crap
Great Gatsby
Wuthering heights
Turns out the "best" American literature is crap
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