What's the worst book you ever finished?
>>25602163Anons diary desu
In which the MC goes back in time to have sex with his own mother, giving birth to a race of descendants that he also has sex with, except for the youngest children, who he spanks, all in the name of saving humanity from communism and teaching the universe about capitalism.
>>25602163Enders Game
>>25602169>In order to save humanity from Communism Did it work?
>>25602163Probably The Confessions of Saint Patrick or The Bhagavad Gita.
>>25602174The Bhagavad gita is only worth reading if you have dropped LSDAnd even then it's just for the imagery
>>25602163A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaComplete dogshit. I finished it out of spite so that when I tell the imbeciles who rave about it that it is in fact dogshit, they can't dismiss me by simply saying I didn't finish it.
>>25602163Doctor Zhivago. A big pile of crap.
>>25602163City of My Dreams, by Fogelström. I felt like I had been punched in the head out of boredom. I still sigh as a reflex by thinking about it.
>>25602163The House on Mango Street. I set it on fire after I was done with it.
>>25602169bravo heinlein you've done it again
The King in Yellow. I don't read books I find boring but forced myself to finish it because of how short it is. The experience was nonetheless agonising.
>>25602163anne franks diary
>>25602868What didn’t you like about it? I’ve had it on my Amazon wish list for a while.
Every single book by Sorokin.
>>25602163Fiction:Firestarter by KingWhere's the punctuation, mr. king? Why the run on sentences, mr King? War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card160 pages of a 13 yo boy complaining about religion in space. Why.Homeward bound by turtledoveHe repeats himself constantly, book was a ton of drivelBook of Daniel, also by TurtledoveGreat Depression baseball sounds cool, but let's add a fantasy element to it and be verbose. Now it's boring Non fictionBehind the mask of mormonismNon denom protestants debunking mormonism in the most intellectual and dry way possible When people are big and God is smallAgain Non denoms telling me how to lose social anxiety by giving me social anxiety
>>25602163The IdiotI felt like the title referred to me for reading the darn thing!
>>25602163If lol-so-random was a book
ITIt really cannot be overstated just how bad King can be. He completely refuses to reign his worst habits in. IT would've worked better if it was just the child part. It would've been a fun, pulpy horror. Instead he wants to insert child orgies, weird Lovecraftian themes, and themes of generational trauma. And despite its ambition IT's fucking bad.
>>25602593I like to read Swedish literature and liked Mobergs Emigrants-series a lot. How would you compare it to Fogelström?
>>25603016This guy has been an insufferable faggot for as long as I've known him, which has been around 15 years.
>>25602163This book on the Talmud written by a Jewish man doing damage control
>>25602981i'm glad to find someone that also didn't like the idiot, i didn't definitely hate it but it felt overrated as fuck to me
>>25602981>>25603235Crime and Punishment was fantastic, so was Notes from the Underground. The Idiot, while in my opinion the first part was good, quickly spiraled into mediocrity, then it simply became bad. Melodramatic, bloated and not too cleverly written, with characters shouting every fifth line unless they're monologuing about some subject Dosto REALLY wanted to address. Worst of his long novels for sure.
>>25602169BASED?
The worst one goes to The Trial, from Kafka.The author walks in fucking glass to write the most boring shit he could think to explain to his friends why he hates law (Kafka graduated in law but was an incompetent lawyer). Nothing ever happens the entire book, and this piece of shit refuses any help he is offered.This shit is only popular because Hitler lost.
>>25602163Stranger in a Strange Land. Started off really good then went to shit halfway through. By the end, it was just abysmal.
Fiction: The Great Gatsby by F Scott FitzgeraldNonfiction:Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
>>25603437Probably The Idiot for me tooI remember some poor woman with rickets moving out of her shitty little flat and the titular idiot knocking his head, apart from that it was a right bore
>>25603053Not that guy but i would consider Fogelström primarily a historian, i wouldn't really recommend him unless you are into micro history and/or the history of Stockholm.The Stad series is mostly just a vehicle for recounting local history through the lens of fictional characters. I really enjoyed it but i can definitely understand why others would find him really dry and boring.
>>25602169Incredibly based, and not even the weirdest Heinlein story.>>25603680I recently read Gatsby for the first time as an adult and also found it to be dogshit. I shouldn’t have been surprised since women seem to love it.
>>25602564>I finished it out of spite so that when I tell the imbeciles who rave about it that it is in fact dogshit, they can't dismiss me by simply saying I didn't finish it.unironically one of the finer pleasures associated with reading
>>25602163Hijos del carbón as non fic.The legend of the saint drinker, I don't the translation, a bum receiving money all the time and doing nothing. I just finished it because it was 40 pages and maybe the end was worth something.
>>25602163Slaughterhouse Five insists upon itself
