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>>24833156Irvine Welsh should have killed himself after Filth.
>>24833165my brother got this for me for christmas one year. I haven't read it yet and don't have a ton of desire to read it, except for the fact that he gifted it to me
>>24833245it's very bad. i guess the writing style is okay in that it's actually something you can read, but the "ideas", the plot, it's all so cynically by the numbers, all rife with cliche, it just exemplifies what a book can be at its nadir. i'm sure something like the flight to lucifer might be worse, but i'm not going to read it to find out.
>>24833282What's so bad about it?
>>24833394I'm reading this next year and really looking forward to it. I thought Dot in the Universe was fantastic, and true readers know her strong background in Joyce
Diary of a Faggot by OP
>>24833156The real answer would be a self-published book a dude I know wrote called The Asperger Teen but that barely counts as a book so I will go with this.
It suckers you in by making you think it's a horror story about the Abominable Snowman but then it turns out it's actually about spies trying to recover photos of Adolf Hitler raping little boys, which causes the French character to exclaim C'EST ABOMINABLE!700 fucking pages
>>24833156Heller is a bad writer who struck lightning in a bottle with Catch 22.>>24833394Nah I liked this one quite a lot. It had a great rhythm to it.
>>24834757I genuinely thought you were trolling until I looked it up. Holy shit.I liked The Terror a lot since I am a sucker for stories that take place in the arctic but every other Dan Simmons book sounds just terrible.
>>24833165>>24833245I've read a few Christopher Moore books, but not this one. It's decent "turn your brain off" material, if you care for that kind of thing. Good for an occasional chuckle.
>>24835038t. chris moore seething
Heart of DarknessFahrenheit 451Both horrifically boring, unreadable crap I tried multiple times but couldn't finish
Was forced to read this in high schoolSelf-indulgent, pretentious, hippie nonsenseBecame a best seller because of goddamn filthy hippies thinking the author was some deep minded philosopher
This. What an embarrassment. Lazy, cliche, preachy, daft, unnecessarily changes material it was inspired from, etc.
>>24835251drat, i kinda hoped that this might be good.
>>24834862I felt this way about Gatsby in high school, but when I reread it as an adult I found I actually liked it quite a bit. I wound up reading all of Fitzgerald's other novels and several of his short stories. I think the main reason people don't like Gatsby is that everyone is forced to read it as a teenager, but it's not the kind of book a teenager is going to like.
>>24835272Gatsby is overwritten mid materialWhat short stories of Fitz's did you read?He spent a lot of years writing shitty stories for magazines for a quick buck to provide an income for his privileged brat schizo wife
>>24835239Absolute rubbish, one of the worst things I’ve ever read.
>>24833282I'm not defending the book but hating this book isn't controversial or edgy.
>>24833156Not a book exactly, but if you want the worst thing I've ever read, it's this fanfiction:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/91215/our-girl-scootaloo-1-of-3I was dared to read this once, and now I'm daring anyone brave enough on /lit/ to do the same. It's been a few years since I've read it but I'll try to sum up what I can remember.This is a My Little Pony fanfiction that somehow manages to be a literary abortion even by the standards of My Little Pony fanfiction. Basically, an insane gay guy and his gay husband adopt one of the characters from the show (Scootaloo) and raise her as their own child. Beyond that the plot is almost impossible to summarize. If you have never watched MLP and don't know who Scootaloo is it won't even affect your understanding of the story, because she's the only thing in it even vaguely connected with the cartoon. If you *have* watched MLP, the characterization of Scootaloo is beyond terrible.There are massive blocks of dialogue, spanning multiple pages, that are nothing but the author's unfiltered opinions on science and politics. Many of them are spoken by Scootaloo herself, who for some completely unexplained reason also has a genius-level IQ. One of her gay dads invents a pair of cybernetic arms so their horse-daughter can interact with the human world and work on her scientific inventions. She learns to fly a plane at one point, and iirc the main plot eventually involves her going on some kind of gay rights crusade against the principal of her ultra-conservative religious high school, which her ultra-liberal atheist gay parents enrolled her in for some unexplained reason. There's an entire chapter dedicated to her attending a unitarian church service.The guy wrote two sequels.
>>24835286A lot of his short stories are mid, and you can tell he wasn't putting as much work in as with his novels. Some of them are really good, though. May Day, The Ice Palace, and A Short Trip Home are my favorites.
>>24834757KEK
>>24835152To enjoy Heart of Darkness I think it helps to be a little suicidal, or at the very least depressed
>>24835152Fahrenheit 451 is one my fav books. Something about the setting, the darkness, and some of the echoes to our time now (not the book burning , but more the media environment)guess im just stupid
>>24835152>>24835404or just capable of sensing beauty
>>24834757Lol what!!!
>>24835349>Weapons grade unhinged autism in the forbidden and forgotten hell hole nooks and crannies of the internetThis is the kinda shit I live for...
