>>25051477
your diary desu

>>25051480
That's a little uncalled for.

12 Rules

Some book by that black Columbia professor who does a shit ton of drugs
Absolute caricature shit. I had to finish it cause I was high on an airplane (bought it at the airport) and reading it was simply too funny. But man what a garbage book filled with retarded ideas.

>>25051477
As I Lay Dying, exhibit #184,743,965 in "black comedy" that isn't funny or poignant

>>25051477
Twilight.

>>25051496
Holy FILTERED

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Got suckered in because of the cover and because I really enjoyed Ella Minnow Pea. Ibid was fucking terrible. The gimmick is stupid and pointless, the story goes nowhere, there's an absolute ton of Bush-era libble rabble, and the book tries waaaaay too hard to come off as clever and cute. I couldn't tell you why I finished it beyond the sunk cost fallacy.

>>25051477
The Long Walk. The ending was absolutely retarded.

>>25051513
>he actually reads kingslop
lol lmao even

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Anthem - Ayn Rand
If that's the quality of writing and philosophy she can put into a few pages how bad is Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead?

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>>25051477
I don't finish books that I don't like

>>25051477
Nausea
It was a drag, the book is ultimately about NOTHING, literally NOTHING happens in the book, there is a pedo guy reading some books and molesting a child (nice projection, french faggot) and his whorish gf about whom the main hero WHINES LIKE A BITCH about, I don't even know what the book was about

>>25051491
The one with dreads?

Richard McBeef. Like I knew it would be bad, but it was truly horrid. It was worse than the shooting he did

>>25051477
Tossup between mein kampf and quran

>>25051477
>the shadow of the wind
>the time: night
there are a lot but those two come to mind

I did not care for PKD’s trip report PHALUS. Although there was an odd synchronicity in my personal life. I was reading a biography of St. Dominic and the Cathars while reading PHALUS.
Strange enough coincidence to go, “hey wait a minute… what does this mean???”

>>25051616
Yup

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>>25051477
Picrel. Literally philosophy to justify WEF propaganda.

>>25051477
Literary? Either the Stranger or Savage Detectives, not sure which one I hate more.
I also read a bunch of YA as a child, so probably one of these. Hunger Games probably.

>>25051714
What's wef

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>>25051611
Nausea is the worst book I made it halfway through before dropping

the worst book I ever finished was a Holocaust survivor story written a couple years ago by a local author, who I will not embarrass by naming because she wrote it while in high school (possibly forced to by a mother who reminded me of pic related but Asian)

the book that I most regretted wasting the time to finish was The Magic Mountain

>>25051591
I got to the last forty pages of the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle before dropping it. There was no specific reason I remember dropping it. I'd read to that point, put it down to go do something else, and never picked it back up again. All of Murakami's books are the same, except Norwegian Wood, which on re-reading was a lot shittier than I remember it being.
>>25051791
I'm going to guess World Economic Forum.

>>25051477
Either 1Q84 or Inverted World.

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It was bad.

>>25051905
yeah its that. basically Saplosky before Saplosky not only saying "free will isn't real" but also developing a political program around this concept. very bugman like political philosophy by a psychologist known for behaviorism, a school of psychology alongside various approaches like psychoanalysis, humanistic psychology, gestalt psychology, cognitive psychology and existential and evolutionary variants.

I reviewed the book here:

https://adolfsbookreviews.substack.com/p/beyond-freedom-and-dignity-by-bf

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>>25051477
Utter drivel that I only finished because it's under 100 pages and started hate reading it a quarter of the way through because it was so bad

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The Raw Shark Texts, it's all gimmick and devoid of substance.

>>25052067
What makes it drivel? Retards often define their lives through what they supposedly hate. I mostly enjoyed it, it had some issues due to its unfinished nature but was mostly good.

>>25052091
Dull pessimist slop about player pianos and how much he wants to die or something. 400 level litcrit-core. I didn't really bother giving it critical thought when I could just go back to reading nonfiction like usual, at least they say what they mean unless you're into deceptive political shit

>>25052067
>>25052097
you want to sound smart so bad

>>25052097
>it's drivel because I am too stupid to understand it
lol

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I did not care for The Godfather (novel)

>>25051477
The Life of a Useless Man. Blatant shallow propaganda. Gorky is the worst Russian author I've read

A Clockwork Orange
Fight Club

Both disgusting garbage that I only finished because they were short and easy. How appalling that literature major fags will call anything interesting and as a result shit like this stays published instead of being thrown into a bin.

A lot of so-called classic sci fi. Good to great ideas but mediocre to awful writing.

>>25051611
Agreed. What drove me nuts was the protagonist going on about how no one really cares about connecting and one can never know another. While he is surrounded by people who wants to get to know him that he just looks upon with scorn. And it’s done without a hint of irony like Sartre just wrote down his own experiences and has no idea how much of a fuckwad he is. Hated it.

>>25051477
The book I wrote

>>25051511
>Bush-era libble rabble
All the Bushes are such shit. Including the black one and the orange one.

The genesis of quave

>>25051477
Blue Eyes, Black Hair by Marguerite Duras. Worst most ass most infuriating piece of fucking DOGSHIT I have ever read, it made me so angry that I'm getting angry now even just remembering that I wasted even a tiny portion of my life reading it.

>>25051477
The Savage Detectives

>>25051477
If u were able to finish a bad book then it really wasn't the worst.

>Satanic Bible
Baby's first critique of Christianity. It reads like an edgelord who frequents /r/atheism venting his frustrations about going to church once, all with retarded arguments and strawmans.
>Agostino, Moravia
A rich kid has a mom-cuck fantasy and gets bullied by a bunch of lowlives. He gets almost raped by a six-fingered pedophile named Saro.
Subpar erotica. I've read works by actual cucks who did a better job exploring and describing the emotions the kid felt.
>Sudor, Fuguet.
A fag novel written from the eyes of a millenial.
I liked Fuguet in my youth and got one of his latter novels as a Christmas gift. I was horrified to see that he never progressed past YA garbage. I wasn't even put off by the faggotry, it's just that the book's shallow and tasteless.
>An introduction to Spinoza
I didn't care much for his philosophy. It's literally just Aristotle for retards.
>The Kybalion
I only realized how bad this one was when I tried to read it a second time, years later.
Who can forget about Hermeticism, the ancient philosophy of the egyptians, born in the lands of China and Japan. You know Yugi, the egyptian god of anime.
>SPQR, Mary Beard.
Mary can't help her woman writer syndrome. There's like five reminders within the first 100 pages that the romans were le heckin sexist and patriarchal. Towards the end, she talks about some notable men through Plutarch and for no reason goes "The great men of history (and they were all men)"
The entire books reads as if she hated what she was doing, which is what pains me the most. Credit where its due it's a fine work of introduction to Rome.

>>25054201
Are you the fag who made a thread seething about Agostino after I recommended it to you

mj hyland how the light gets in
legit man hater

>>25054215
Can't be, because I read Agostino from an Older woman/Younger man chart I saw ages ago.
Pity the poor anon you recommended it to, thoughbeit.

>>25051477
Dragonflight. Absolute garbage

>>25051477
When I was a kid I finished 2 of the 3 Divergent series of books. I usually remember the overall plot beats of the books I enjoyed as a kid, but I forgot literally everything about this one, and I even saw the movies for it. I couldn't bring myself to finish the third one because it was so boring.

>>25051477
the second hunger games book

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>>25051477
idk I usually put down bad ones. I finished Train Dreams because it was so short and it was awful, it's inspiring to read dogshit that you could write in two weeks that gets published

>>25054314
Train Dreams as a book is incredibly overrated, as a movie it's kino. The book despite being so short was just so fucking dull, I didn't understand the praise and hype at all.

>>25051477
It was an alien novel. Absolute garbage. The sheer ineptitude still pisses me off to this day. I don't remember much, but there was a drug called "pink orgasm".

>>25054314
>plotfag misses the point

>>25051496
seconded, excellent taste

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Animal farm.

I bite the dead skin off my feet and have been doing so for close to a decade

>>25054314
>>25054525
Either one of you, tell us what it is about/the point.

Definitely assigned reading from school.
>The Bean Tree by Kingsolver
No idea why we even read this. Some white girl finds a raped ethnic baby and names it turtle. I hardly remember the rest of the story. It was mostly just women whining about their boyfriends.
>Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver
Bean Tree was forgettable but this one was painful. One character was literally "lol so randum XD!" and her chapters were cringe. A missionary dooms his family to living in Africa and the book is about what an awful father he is and how different niggers are from us white folk. The epilogue is told from the POV of a dead baby in heaven.
>Friday Night Lights by some guy
Football. Football. Football. There's a guy named Boobie and people are racist. That's the book.

>>25051880
An Asian girl wrote a book about the holocaust?

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>this is my ideal world and it absolutely will never be possible

ugh

pretty sure it was special topics in calamity physics but it's been a while and I had to get AI to remind me. it's like being in high school and having to hang out with someone who just discovered that culture outside of mtv and ny times bestsellers exists and makes it their entire personality and won't fucking shut up about it.
>>25054612
my AP english teacher made us read some terrible fucking books, animal dreams by kingsolver was one of them. also the woman warrior by maxine hong kingston, ceremony by leslie marman silko. just the most generic multicultural dogshit because he was having a bout of white guilt or some shit. at least he also assigned toni morrison who is actually good but to him she was just checking the box of another minority he wanted to cover. what a fucking waste of a class.

>>25051491
Is that the one that said he did heroin casually?

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>>25051477
I felt it was a missed opportunity to have it become an urban fantasy. I loved the idea of this serial killer sperg use his autistic knowledge of how serial killers work to track down a real one, but then to have the killer be this demon just took the sails out of me. Even if I had known ahead of time I'dhave been disappointed knowing it could have been a more grounded story. I read the synopsis of the sequels and it just sounds like generic secret organization fantasy slop.

>>25052522
Classic SF is much better in short story form. You won't get the most out of it by reading novels.

>>25051513
>I le walked so much I went bonkers and can't stop walking
HOLY SHIT. DEEP.

>>25051611
came here to post this

>>25051477
I am struggling to finish a Jane Austen. It is severely fucking Gay. It is woman’s only book

>>25055621
They call it "chick lit" for a reason.

Discounting anything I read before the age of 16, Infinite Jest.

Disregarding the actual garbage i read in high school and before coming to appreciate literary fiction, i intensely disliked Doctor Zhivago. Nabokov was right about it, it's melodramatic, vilely written trite.
>inb4 nabokov ghastly rigmarole etc.
Any Dostojevski novel is hundred times more entertaining than Dr Zhivago. It's simply awful; how come a poet can write so mind-numbigly dull prose?

Like longest/biggest time sink while also being ‘bad’? Probably Atlas Shrugged. There were 1-2 good parts in a book that was probably 750-850+ pages

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>>25051477
this overrated garbage. can't believe I even gave it a shot

>>25051477
It was this book about the talmud written by a jewish man doing damage control. It had a couple of interesting bits but it was mostly a huge waste of time. My copy had two added chapters with more time wasting garbage like going into details about how the pages in the talmud are formatted...

>>25051714
How are people talking about Bernays but not this WTF

>>25051588
seconding Anthem by Ayn Rand

>>25051477
Not considering pre scribed books I would say Atlas Shrugged, I finished it because I'm a lolbert and this is supposed to be our founding document.

>>25055634
Sense and Sensibility- the gayest fucking thing ever written. It is painful

Lady Portsmansen has absconded with Lord Willingsly to Dartmouth - the horror! She will have to settle for the other suitor, Colonel Chershestershire!

Currently Reading The Glass Bead Game and it's a slog

>>25051477
schopenhauer's on free will

>>25056494
Try Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. And Particularly Shewing, the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, In Relation to Marriage, you will feel better about Austen.

>>25056468
>I'm a lolbert
It's never too late to put on the boot. Whichever side you're on, you'll have more fun if you admit what your interests are and actually work towards them.

>>25051477
Mercycle by Piers Anthony. What a shit book.

>>25056368
apparently the psyop worked. took heat off him because in our day and age he's on team goy so they just go after the jew instead.

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>>25056571
>admit what your interests are
Not being robbed

>>25051714
>>25056368
>>25056807
Why don't you fucking people briefly say what about this is important, if you care so fucking much

>>25057915
You're an absolute buffoon. I hope whichever side wins kills all fence sitters and lolberts

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>Mouse Man by Jed Fairview
Boring, tedious, uninteresting from page 1 right to the back cover. There's only so man times you can hear an author get emotional about animal rights before you stop caring. Even the weird hallucination scenes aren't any way clever or creative.

Fairview's prose is adequate, but he has no sense of character dialogue whatsoever. At least it was short, but it feels about five times its length.

>>25051477
Crime and Punishment. Such a ghastly rigmarole.

I resd Matthew C Harris' manifesto from start to finish. Hell of a thing. I couldn't stop dreaming about the words nigger and kike for months.

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>>25051477
Indian Horse for 10th grade English class. It's about this indigenous Canadian kid who's legally required to go to boarding school. Canadian social studies and English classes are built around endless reminders of how indigenous Canadians got raped, like how US students are constantly reminded about the holocaust.
The entire book is sad whiny garbage. Every single character in the protagonist's life is evil and fucks him over. There's one good character who was the only thing keeping me reading it. It's revealed he's also an evil secret child rapist, but only at the end.

Supposedly this is required reading in some parts of the US: Fahrenheit 451. So bad it made me write off all "dystopian" books entirely.

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>>25051511
LMAO

I recall really disliking the invisible man by wells when I read it.

>>25051477
Siddhartha

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>The Sword of Shannara

The prose is at a level where it genuinely boggled my mind a publisher actually sent this to print. Probably never would have been published if people hadn't been clamoring for more LotR at the time. This is not some kind of snooty literary hyperbole either, I genuinely love trash, but this is the kind of first-try-at-writing I only saw on peoples' blogs or handed to me by Creative Writing students. You know, the trembling overexcited kind wholook like they will have a nervous collapse when you point out it's shit, but simultaneously shine with the conviction that they have produced the next great thing.

>>25051477
the chain by adrian mckinty. infuriating characters that don't talk or act the way real victims of kidnapping/blackmail/general hell would behave. the hook is fucking outstanding and you feel taken advantage of by the end when it was completely wasted on a retard who is emulating tv and movies with a limited vocabulary. such a pain to get through.

>>25051617
never knew he wrote a handful of plays, what a fag

>>25051626
thats blasphemy in these here parts brother

>>25059997
so that's the premise huh. definitely not something I would choose to read

>>25060036
>thats blasphemy in these here parts brother
NTA but I hate the Quran's style that seems common among Middle Eastern writing
>O prophet what wind thou rides allah tends his sparrows

>>25051617
Ok yeah I read that. It sounds like something a dumb asian 13 year autist old would write. I can't believe someone in college could write so badly.

>>25052816
Kate Bush is pretty cool.

>>25051477
Atlas Shrugged

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>>25051477
>i hecking LOVE neoliberalism! da market is cut throat but it erm works, why dont you try studying the super markets isles for a lesson in productivety.
couldnt finish, this faggot probably believes trumps fascist and communists are evil

>>25058380
Hoppe is a libertarian and was most definitely not a fencesitter.

Quran
TKAM
Then Diary of Anne Frank's Dad

>>25060913
Chudbertarians are acceptable. Most libertarians just go one about how much they love sodomy and hate borders

I usually never finish books I don't like, but for some reason I finished All the Light We Cannot See back then I was a teenager a decade ago and it cemented itself forever in my mind as the biggest piece of shit I'll likely ever finish reading. Just a boring slog of a story that somehow also manages to be one of the biggest trainwrecks I've ever read, all while being written in the most presumptuous style ever.

>>25054201
It's hard to think of a single point on which Aristotle and Spinoza resemble each other. I guess he preserves the substance-attribute structure but in a way that would be unrecognizable to Aristotle and is instead rooted in Cartesian philosophy (and even then it's a far cry from Descartes). Spinoza is like a reformed Callicles

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>ctrl+f A Separate Peace
>0/0 results

Am I just the only one who had to read this in high school? I remember it being so incredibly bad, and so incredibly gay, too.

>>25061668
you american? us brits read tons of american books for english for some reason, only brits i can think of is orwell and shakespear

>>25062861
not him but it's about the same for americans, very few brits other than shakespeare. we might read orwell, austen, or conrad but they're not basically mandatory like steinbeck, fitzgerald, harper lee, or salinger are. I think dickens shows up in late middle school.

>>25051477
traditionelle und kritische Theorie.

The Witch of Portobello. Will never understand the 4 star reviews. The author tries really hard to make you belive a woman's need for attention is instead a sign of her spirituality. Trash.

Other than genre shit my ex used to buy me? Slaughterhouse Five, I was 17 when I read it.
>>25060033
I’d love to see an excerpt from this.
>>25059670
Nab was right on the money here.
>>25055621
She’s not the most horrendous writer but I too loathe her. Never finished anything I tried to read by her.
>>25055651
I don’t like it either but the footnotes are entertaining I reckon

>>25061668
I had to read it in high school and thought it was a fine book. Maybe saying it was "incredibly gay" is just your way of coping with your homosexual fascination with Phineas.

>>25051588
Atlas Shrugged is a brick of a book written by a greedy jew who really just wanted to write her self-insert getting dicked down

>>25051477
Serious literature?
Probably The Bell Jar. Not even for chuddy reasons, I just find "waaaaaah poor me" characters fucking annoying, I hated notes from underground for the same reason. She really should have stuck to poetry

>>25051880
>Holocaust survivor story
>written a couple years ago
>by someone in high school
>forced to by her Asian mother
Nigger what

Catch 22. At least it made me realize I don't like comedy in written format.

>>25061668
I read this in high school and thought it was awful, but today I don't remember a single thing about it except that it's about a group of kids and one of them dies. I should reread it and see if it's really that bad or I just got filtered.
In fact while I'm at it I should also do Catcher in the Rye.

>>25065442
>At least it made me realize I don't like comedy in written format.
It depends, I guess. Wasn't really into Don Quixote and Confederacy of Dunces, but Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow are downright hilarious.

>>25065442
pseud

I'm getting the sense that a lot of you guys don't read much

>>25065442
I like Pynchon's comedy up to a point.
But right now I'm reading Gian Marco Griffi's Mexican Railways and the humour in that book is something else, I recommend it to everyone. Only translated into German/French/Spanish so far though

>>25051477
The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
He kept repeating the same shit but with different words. That fucking psychopath.

>>25065442
for me, it's russians and slavs. recently read envy, pornografia, and moscow stations. great stuff.

>>25065442
Bootlicker

>>25066338
Robert Greene is the biggest hack of all time. Just look at his face.

>>25065591
That new, huh?

I wouldn't say Castle to Castle was the worst book I ever read but at least half of it was Celine bitching about 'publishers'. Been plenty of pop science and history books that I've skimmed and completely forgotten.

>>25066380
Yeah. Worst part is that he sells himself as a player. Fuck him.

>>25066367
Everyone who uses this word has never been in a fight