I regret reading the stranger and that shit was expensive too, what overrated books should i avoid reading?
>>23814436Read Bartleby the Scrivener and Billy Budd. Both are "Stranger but actually good" in different ways.So far, I thought the following books in the top 100 sucked:>War & Peace (Anna Karenina was good though)>Dorian Gray>Savage Detectives>all of Hesse>not in the top 100, but William Blake's collected poems
>>23814472>>not in the top 100, but William Blake's collected poemsexplain why this is bad...
>>23814482I just don't think he's a particularly skilled poet. He had some cool ideas, but lacked the skill to execute them, his poems feel linguistically amateurish and bloated.I can sort of understand his fans, but I read mostly for the beauty of language, not for ideas or aesthetics.
>>23814490Fair enough, thanks
>>23814472i was going to read war and peace but ive seen some people say that Anna Karenina is better, does he have another good book?
I found my copy of the stranger at a soup kitchen called "our daily bread", there was also a book on literary criticism, lol.
>>23814516Supposedly he has a lot of great short stories - Hadji Murat and Ivan Ilyich in particular. His Resurrection is a lot different from his early novels, I heard it was more Christian-sentimental in the style of Dostoevsky.I've only ever read his novels, but you could start with the short stories if you feel skeptical.My dislike War & Peace may be just me being weird, since I much prefer writers obsessed with detail like Mann, James or Huysmans, and I felt W&P was too flippant and cursory in its treatment of characters and descriptions. Anna Karenina had a much slower pace so it might've just accidentally managed to fit my taste. Plus imo it used much more beautiful language.
>>23814436The picture is funny because it has AI effects that aren't so easily describable because they aren't people. I can only say that each look like they have downs.
>>23814472I liked Demian, haven't read anything else but have purchased and am intending to read Narziss and Goldmund. What didn't you like about Hesse?
>>23814436>SIUPID FAGGOTdead ai theory
>>23814436Avoid everything written by Bret Easton Ellis
>>23814436Goethe's Faust (unless you speak German I guess)NauseaThe Castle
>>23814472>SD>suckedMy taste would also be this abyssmal if i was an EOP and a midwit
>>23814436All of DH Lawrence, Pynchon, Updike, Franzen, anyone that has written a novel about New York City. Oh, and Frank O'hara's 'poetry'.
>>23814436Camus died just as he was becoming a good novelist. Instead read The Fall and The Last Man to get a glimpse of what could have been.Also, Camus is a much better essayist/speech writer.
>>23814436Read "who goes there*
>>23815501wait why is Faust badi haven't read it yet
>>23814472I never liked Hesse either.
>>23816736Faust part 2 is difficult and highly experimental. That anon got filtered.
>>23816736It's good even in English. That other Anon is a retard.
>>23814482There's hardly any poets whose 'Collected Poems' is actually good.
