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re: Name a well-known book or books that you would not recommend
Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:18 am to dirtsandwich
Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:18 am to dirtsandwich
Catcher in the Rye is my favorite coming of age novel. I think it's damn near perfect.
There's only one classic that I have found both totally meaningless and so horribly boring that it should be forgotten , lost to the dustbin of history - Wuthering Heights.
As far as overrated and downright objectionable books go, Native Son takes the cake and nothing is close.
There's only one classic that I have found both totally meaningless and so horribly boring that it should be forgotten , lost to the dustbin of history - Wuthering Heights.
As far as overrated and downright objectionable books go, Native Son takes the cake and nothing is close.
This post was edited on 6/25/18 at 12:20 am
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Posted on 6/25/18 at 8:30 am to BamaHog
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Anything by Jonathan Franzen. Arrogant, pretentious, moralizing, pseudo-intellectual prick. My mother (RIP) had a saying about people like Franzen: He thinks he's hot snot on a silver platter, but he ain't nothing but a cold booger on a paper plate.
I "tried" to read The Corrections
Amen. The Corrections is the only book I stopped reading because I hated the characters so much. I'm still pissed I paid money for that piece of crap book, thus giving it legitimacy.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 8:23 pm to lsu480
I have no problems reading McCarthys work, I can see how some people can get confused, but it’s really not that complicated. I’m on the third book of the border series and I am in awe at how good of a writer he is
Posted on 6/27/18 at 3:31 pm to Ham And Glass
Dark tower 1 the gunslinger
Ready player one (unless you want someone to give you a nickel for every 80s reference)
Ready player one (unless you want someone to give you a nickel for every 80s reference)
This post was edited on 6/27/18 at 3:32 pm
Posted on 7/1/18 at 10:59 am to sportsaddit68
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Another one I hated was Huckaberry Finn.
I actually agree. Just a boring meandering book. Not funny where it’s supposed to be.
I know my opinion is not popular.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:00 am to Ham And Glass
I didn’t enjoy the Hobbit at all. I read it as an adult which may have been the problem. It felt like a kids book.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 6:11 pm to Ham And Glass
Crying of lot 49.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 1:26 pm to Ham And Glass
American Gods
Neil Gaymen(I know)
eta not sure if that is considered a classic.
I really hated Pride and Prejudice which I was forced to read in HS..On the other hand..I was also forced to read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and it is one of my favorites
Neil Gaymen(I know)
eta not sure if that is considered a classic.
I really hated Pride and Prejudice which I was forced to read in HS..On the other hand..I was also forced to read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and it is one of my favorites
This post was edited on 7/9/18 at 1:28 pm
Posted on 7/9/18 at 2:38 pm to LSU_postman
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American Gods
I'm with you on that. I have always assumed that I just didn't get it. I'm sure someone will post in here to let me know that's the case.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 3:15 pm to Ham And Glass
Fahrenheit 451.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 5:05 pm to DestrehanTiger
If I had to describe the entire feel of that book (it was an audiobook) it would be Gray.
It was the most depressing drab arse book. maybe I am not intellectual enough to get it
It was the most depressing drab arse book. maybe I am not intellectual enough to get it
Posted on 7/10/18 at 9:16 am to DestrehanTiger
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American Gods
I'm with you on that. I have always assumed that I just didn't get it. I'm sure someone will post in here to let me know that's the case.
It's definitely among his least accessible books. It's just so damn strange. But it is among my favorites. I recommend Neverwhere to get you into his style. It is his most accessible book, imo, and quite good. Lots of fun.
But I don't think American Gods or any Neil Gaiman falls into "classic" just yet. American Gods will be there eventually. It really is that good.
Posted on 7/10/18 at 11:27 am to LoveThatMoney
I'm about to get hammered but, A Confederacy of Dunces. I read it and barely cracked a smile. Way overhyped.
Posted on 7/10/18 at 2:16 pm to 9Fiddy
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I'm about to get hammered but, A Confederacy of Dunces. I read it and barely cracked a smile. Way overhyped.
If I didn't grow up in the New Orleans metro area, I doubt I would have thought much of it either.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 7:35 pm to Sody Cracker
You have to be dedicated to plow through Faulkner at his most dense.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 9:14 pm to DestrehanTiger
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didn't grow up in the New Orleans metro area, I doubt I would have thought much of it either.
One of the funniest books I've ever read. Didn't grow up down there. Didn't matter to me. The characters are just solidly amusing.... to me.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 8:07 am to 9Fiddy
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I'm about to get hammered but, A Confederacy of Dunces.
I didn't get the appeal either.
Posted on 7/16/18 at 6:55 am to Tigris
I liked Winter's Tale...it was a Tall Tale of New York.
Posted on 7/17/18 at 10:48 am to Pectus
Moby Dick, what a labor to read
Posted on 8/11/18 at 9:43 pm to WicKed WayZ
Had to give up on Catch-22
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