/lit/ - Literature

Norwegian Wood by Murakami
Just awful

>>16247342
It's not the worst per se, but I have a love hate relationship with Nouvelles sous ecstasy

>>16247342
The Contender or Maniac McGee

Ham on Rye by Bukowski. Dumb, directionless, meaningless revolt: the book.

>>16247342
the worst one i read of my own volition is probably robert jordan's "eye of the world"
there are probably a bunch of shitty books i had to read for school but i wouldn't count those

Anon's diary

Catcher in the Rye. I want to strangle that kid

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The truth about the Harry Quebert affair.

My fucking god, I kept reading it because I couldn't believe just how shitty it was. At times it read like the parody of a shit thriller.

>>16247342
I was asked to read Crank in middle school a few years after the book was published.

It's shit.

>>16247349
Its not that bad

Most of the shit I was forced to read in school.
On that note, Harry Potter, made it to chapter 11, stopped, and dropped it out of boredom. I was only 8 years old.

>>16248159
is it in any way related to the jason statham movie?

>>16248225
I didn't even know there was a movie until now. All I remember was that there was a lot of sex (that was narrated terribly) and that the author tried to make a weird poetic-prose mix that was just bad. To her credit, it might have been the fact that I didn't read the book in it's original language, but I still think the book was shit.

Letters to milena.

War and Peace

every character has a stupid name and its boring

>>16248246
the movie is just an insane action movie. like, really fucking insane. He restarts his own heart by clamping a jumper cable on his tongue.

my diary desu

>>16248092
Damn. Why buy it in the first place?

>>16247349
Get out.
>>16248097
You too.
>>16248209
Are you me?

12 Rules for life.
What a load of wank

>>16247342
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

The Power of Now. Only listened to the audiobook preview and knew it was trash. Just spiritual gibberish

Atlas Shrugged. Pure torture at the end

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The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
A fuckbuddy lent it to me after I expressed an interest in literature to her, I hated so much that I was no longer attracted to her

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Horia Belcea's The Synthesis of the Subjective and Objective

bros karamazov. load of shite

The Name of the Wind and its sequel. They are perfect representations of everything bad in modern literature.

>>16248608
Pure torture the whole thing through

>>16247342
Babel-17. Biggesst load of shit I've ever read.

>>16248608
>Pure torture at the end
Yes, they should have killed Galt, and that super weapon thing was the most retarded plot point ever.

>>16248762
Naah, I like the romantic scenes, and the hunt for the creator of the engine design was nice.

>>16247342
Maybe The Alchemist

>>16248516
This. Jordan Peterson seems like an intelligent person, until he starts lying about religion, or start talking about his misinterpretation of Yung and postmodernism.

I had high hopes with his book, but it's made for the internet/twitter people.

Mixed Doubles by Jill Mansell

>>16247342
Catcher in the Rye

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The Iliad. The heroes were literally no different than American capeshit heroes. They’re all moody edgy faggots. Helen the whore is literally no different than a 21st century American woman. If the entire plot of that shitty book was remade into a marvel film it would be seamless

>>16247342
Fifty Shades of Gray.

>>16247342
Would anyone actually complete a truly awful book? Dropping one is easy. Mine would probably be Manufacturing Consent, not because it's bad but because I'm a zoomer and it's incredibly dry.

>>16249131
>Would anyone actually complete a truly awful book?
When you have a book report to hand in at school in the era where no detailed summaries are easily available.

Tirza by Arnon Grünberg, I’d rather scratch my eyes out than read that shit again. Gutmensch quasi deep pedo boomer fantasies. Absolutely gross.

>>16247342
I have never forced myself to finish a book that I didn't enjoy (outside of school). Why would you do this to yourself?

>>16247342
To kill a mockingbird

>>16249145
this is true hell
try to actually do the work when all you can think is "god when is this over? when will this end?"

>>16249145
Am I weird for loving all the school assigned books I got? Maybe I'm a lucky zoom but I only got interesting books that were appropriate for a hs reading level

I thought Native Son was pretty bad. Didn't really care for The Prophet either

>>16249208
>Am I weird for loving all the school assigned books I got?
no, you were just lucky

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

i'm sure there's worse ones, but from the top of my head Esau and Jacob by Machado de Assis. not bad, just boring and a bit cliché
but the absolute worst book i ever laid my hands on is Elixir by Hilary Duff. got it from winning a poetry contest in high school, but all it did was teach me never to try and win anything again

>>16249211
>I thought Native Son was pretty bad.

That's a good pick. Still not sure why I was forced to read violent communist propaganda in high school but whatever.

i was infuriated with lit saying readyplayerone was the zoomers ulysses and decided to read it just from pure masochism. i got thru it because i'm autistic and need to finish every thing i start. i hate myself

The stranger.
I don't even remember a lot from the book i just remember that it was kind of pointless

>>16249394
was it strange?

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Found it very boring. Might have to re-read it, I read it when I was like 16.

>>16247342
Crying of lot 49

>>16249394
>The stranger
>pointless

>>16249797
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
>very boring

wew lads

Probably ben-hur

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>>16248097
>>16249196
>>16249394
based
>>16248950
cringe

>>16247342
Iracema, by José de Alencar
Sonetos de amor, by Guilherme de Almeida
Funeral Party, by Ulitskaya

I am very selective with my reading, so all of those books are considered "good", and, frankly, none of them is really bad in the same sense, say, JK Rowling probably is. It's just that I hated them for a variety of reasons.
Those are the ones I've finished. There are others I've read only in part.

>>16249893
Shut up, Iracema is great and a classic

the da vinci code
at least it was short

Infinite Jest

I forced myself to finish BLOOD MERIDIAN.

>>16249906
No. Too much rhetoric.
O Guarani is better, yet even then... The Brazilian novel only becomes great with Machado.

>>16249852
He was just talking about doing loads of different drugs, from what I remember just didn't find it interesting. Might be different now.

>>16247342
American Psycho.
It wasn't BAD, but I found myself getting bored throughout and it really wasn't very disturbing.

>>16249196
This. Such a shite book.

>>16248516
was about to post this. it's a self help book

House of Leaves

>>16248097
It was a boring book.
Hated having to read it.
>>16248209
I managed until book 4 before just giving up.

>>16247342
Die Wolke and Die letzten Kinder von Schewenborn by Gudrun Pausewang.
Green/leftist propaganda to inflict horror on school children, which have to read these books due to their teachers. Parents and children don't buy these books for themselves, it's just politicised YA literature. Story in both: Nuclear power plant goes boom, everyone gets sick and degenerates horribly, life is shit and all you think is that it would be better to kill yourself.
The books are mediocre but they traumatised me when I was 13/14.

>>16249169
Why did you have to read it?

my diary desu

>>16247342
Brothers Karamazov.

>>16249131
>>16249131
>Would anyone actually complete a truly awful book?
Probably not, unless you're a critic maybe. But to be fair, OP didn't necessarily imply that the books would have to be absolutely terrible, just the worst you've actually completed.

Fahrenheit 453
It was just hamfisted and felt like it was going nowhere

>>16247342
if the book is BAD, i don't OPEN it

>>16248259
Says Tim

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Huck Finn
>>16248209
lol
>>16248259
get out

That philosophical dissertation delivered to a university prior to the author stepping before a heedless trolly

El Gaucho Smith (in Spanish)
A blatant ripoff of Don Quijote about an Argentinian gaucho. I’d already read DQ at this point as well and all the anecdotes were totally pillaged.

>>16248092
I didn't buy it, someone donated it to the rehab I was in and I was really bored, so I read it

>>16249394
>pointless
>hurr durr he must have wrote it for nothing
Read an analysis of the book if you don't get it, you stupid fucking nigger.

I assumed this would be an interesting book about how civilization would have to be rebuilt, or ways it could be done and how to do it better. It's actually just watered down instructions on how to build engines and grow vegetables. Totally uninteresting.

>>16248950
I unironically found The Illiad so boring when read as a novel. Very long, meandering points in which every character has their genealogy brought up, and a description of them, many uninteresting, seemingly pointless, (from a story standpoint), tales told about these characters, takes forever to progress. As a history book, and a philosophy book it's fine, but as a novel, it's terrible. I much preferred The Odyssey.

>>16248092
Can I Sav? What does this even mean

>>16247342
Dune. First and last time I'll ever read scifi.

Probably Foe by Iain Reid

>>16247342
ethan frome

>>16249335
The very fact that you finished it shows the author was utterly successful (a car crash you cant look away from)

>>16248209
>he was filtered by Harry Potter

>>16247342
Life of Pi. Forced to read it in high school, put it off until the night before the exam and pounded it down in one sitting.

Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie. Had to read in in school.

>>16248817

Agree, maybe if I read it when I was young, or had a vagina I would have enjoyed it. Reading it post-puberty it's a hokey and weak.

>>16247342
A government issued biography of an Eastern European politician from the 19th century. Just incredibly dry with zero presentation.