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>ITT: Books that you love that people seem to dislike/have a low rating on goodreads.com

>> No.14864651

>>14864561
Closing Time by Joseph Heller

>> No.14864793

bump

>> No.14865477

>>14864561
Absolutely great short novel, surely near the top of the class.

>> No.14865581

bump one more time, hehe.

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14865585

I'm not sure why people seethe so hard over it

>> No.14865593

>>14865585
nobody hates it except for goodreads r*tards

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14865599

What's with all the seething? This was an undeniable masterpiece.

>> No.14865738

>>14864561
I feel like anything that has a low rating on Goodreads is just a book that is too hard or doesn't have enough women characters and makes wine-moms and soibois feel small. So Blood Meridian or Iliad for me.

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14865740

The Bostonians.

>> No.14865745

>>14864561
Le spoopy ghost story

Bored me to tears.

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I know we love it here, but on goodreads one of if not the greatest pieces of literature in the English language has only a 3.5/5 because midwit pseuds are too stupid to understand prose poetry or symbolism. Or because they get upset at non-narrative chapters because philosophy makes their brains hurt.