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re: Name a well-known book or books that you would not recommend
Posted on 5/9/18 at 11:27 am to Ham And Glass
Posted on 5/9/18 at 11:27 am to Ham And Glass
Catcher in the Rye.
Shitty book with a douche protagonist
Shitty book with a douche protagonist
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Posted on 5/9/18 at 10:11 pm to LSUbase13
quote:Good choice.
The Sun Also Rises
This is the only "classic" novel I have ever read where I couldn't discern a theme/message/motif etc.
It was perhaps his most empty work.
Posted on 5/11/18 at 12:53 pm to Ham And Glass
Guys make sure you're putting the titles of these works in italics please. However, to answer the question, don't read Of Mice and Men.
Posted on 5/11/18 at 3:27 pm to lsudave1
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Of Mice and Men.
Interesting choice given it's a short, relatively easy read.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 5:11 pm to Ham And Glass
On TD everyone seems to love Blood Meridian and it is just garbage. Catcher in the Rye also absolutely sucks.
If you do want to read a Steinbeck novel that is amazing and will blow you away read East of Eden. It might be the best book ever.
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However, to answer the question, don't read Of Mice and Men.
If you do want to read a Steinbeck novel that is amazing and will blow you away read East of Eden. It might be the best book ever.
This post was edited on 5/15/18 at 5:15 pm
Posted on 5/15/18 at 6:25 pm to lsu480
Why do you dislike Blood Meridian?
Posted on 5/16/18 at 1:16 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
The style it was written in was annoying as hell. No “ “makes it a pain to tell when people are speaking, almost no punctuation, it was actual work to follow along with who was saying what since he never told you and it was just not worth the effort he puts the reader through since there is nothing to draw you in other than blah, blah, blah this landscape and that landscape.
Posted on 5/16/18 at 12:22 pm to lsu480
I also hated Blood Meridian due to the laborious reading of it, but I wouldn't not recommend it. The story was still pretty good.
Posted on 5/16/18 at 2:52 pm to The Spleen
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I also hated Blood Meridian due to the laborious reading of it, but I wouldn't not recommend it.
Remind me to never ask you for recommendations!
Posted on 5/16/18 at 9:22 pm to Ham And Glass
Didn't like "To Kill a Mockingbird" when I read it, but maybe that's because Hollywood has been shoving that same basic story down our throats for the past few decades.
Posted on 5/16/18 at 11:48 pm to Ham And Glass
Mein kampf
Posted on 5/17/18 at 8:06 am to NeverRains
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Didn't like "To Kill a Mockingbird" when I read it
I love telling my wife im going to come inside and bust up her chifferobe
Posted on 5/22/18 at 11:36 pm to Ham And Glass
V
Thomas Pynchon.
Thomas Pynchon.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:33 am to beachdude
Lot of hate for Catcher in the Rye in this thread. That book literally changed my life as an idiot 15 year old. I would strongly recommend it to any teenager.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 4:07 pm to Ham And Glass
James Joyce, Ulysses. I had a graduate class focused solely on this book. I dropped out of graduate school.
Posted on 6/5/18 at 1:56 pm to Ham And Glass
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 and Purity. No thanks.
I "tried" to read The Corrections and Purity. No thanks.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:03 pm to Ham And Glass
I loved Of Mice and Men but absolutely hated Grapes of Wrath.
It was boring.
Another one I hated was Huckaberry Finn.
It was boring.
Another one I hated was Huckaberry Finn.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 9:14 am to BamaHog
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Anything by Jonathan Franzen. Arrogant, pretentious, moralizing, pseudo-intellectual prick.
I've never read him but that's the same reaction I had to Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell). The author's forward just oozed this.
Posted on 6/10/18 at 7:31 am to sportsaddit68
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Another one I hated was Huckaberry Finn.
Tell more. Interested in why?
Posted on 6/17/18 at 11:07 pm to Ham And Glass
On the Road
I’m surprised no one else mentioned it.
I didn’t like any of the characters. The men were bums. Straight up bums who thought they were so fricking smart and just mooched off of everyone.
I’m surprised no one else mentioned it.
I didn’t like any of the characters. The men were bums. Straight up bums who thought they were so fricking smart and just mooched off of everyone.
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