What was the most disappointing book you ever read? For me it was when I was about 13 and bought the Phantom of the Opera because I thought it was horror
>>24111730Frog posters.Always the most disappointing.
>>24111730Yeah, The Phantom of the Opera is genuinely an awful book. The slop of its time. For me it was The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway sucks. I really wanted to like it too.
Houellebecq's Elementary Particles
>>24111732What did he mean by this?
>>24111730imagine opening a book about a *phantom* at the *opera* and thinking "ooooh this is gonna be scary!!!1!" lmao, even for a 13 year old that's dumb
>>24111740Mayhaps I was 12
I thought Steppenwolf was going to be about werewolves.
>>24111733Filtered
I bought this expecting a bunch of Lovecraftian horror stories. Instead half way through it turns into a bunch of love stories exclusively about upper middle class Anglos-Saxon gentlemen dating French peasant girls
>>24111889*upper middle class Anglo Saxon gentlemen from New England, and almost exclusively Connecticut.
>>24111889Love was scary back then
L'immoralisteI found it difficult to read and I was able to finish it but it was disappointingLe Grand MeaulnesIt was fun at first but then it just got bogged down and I lost interest in itI read the first half in two days and it took me a week to finish the rest and it was a miserable experience
Death In Venice. Just some old faggot crushing on a little boy. Fucking disgusting. Was forced to read it in college.
>>24111730Infinite Jest was a real letdown.I didn't bother to finish it.
We Are Pirates by Daniel HandlerA few years back I read A Series of Unfortunate Events and was shocked at how literary it was. I figured that without the constraints of targeting his work towards children, the dude might put out some decent stuff. It's kind of all over the place, with little compelling and a twist that accomplishes next to nothing. Wasn't awful, just had higher hopes
