some of the worst books you've read

[jerome]

this women's lit class i once took the proff made us read Twilight, no lie. i was so bothered by it i didn't read that book or any of the rest of the books that semester.

also did not like All the Kings Men or the Great Gatsby.

you guys?

[Soso0]

Did you go to a liberal arts school?

[jerome]

naw was just a lit major for a while.

[Dionysus]

I couldn't make it more than a few chapter into Jayne Eyre, but that is more a personal taste thing against 150+ year old "classics" written in archaic styles. I could see it being objectively good, but it bored the fuck out of me. I found High Society by Ben Elton to be almost embarrassingly bad, but I only made it a few chapters into that as well.

[jerome]

^ man i kinda get what you're saying Dionysus, luckily i've been able to avoid having to read Eyre. i guess i've never been a fan of classics, esp any stuff where it's all romantic and girly hodge podge. never read High Society, i'll remember that title.

all of a sudden i can't remember this one author i want to name. i had to read 4-5 books by him and i almost died each time. no one liked his books in the class i was in either. i swear this proff decided this writer to fuck with us b/c the books made no sense.

[Rizzo in a box]

I made it through like 400 pages of Ayn Rand before I finally gave up in fucking disgust. Some of the worst fucking excuse for writing I've ever had the misfortune of reading.

[Proots]

"Naked Lunch"

I've enjoyed other works by Burroughs quite a bit, but I just couldn't stand this one. It was the most incoherent, jumbled word salad I ever read. It literally made no sense. It was just an enormous string of unconnected words, thrown together on paper and bound. A lot of people like to take the pretentious, highfalutin mindset of "Oh, you just didn't get it".

I didn't get it? Read the first 10 pages and tell me what, exactly - or even generally - is going on, then.

[the_dude]

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Had to read that bullshit in high school. What a fucking slog.

[Dionysus]

"Naked Lunch"

I've enjoyed other works by Burroughs quite a bit, but I just couldn't stand this one. It was the most incoherent, jumbled word salad I ever read. It literally made no sense. It was just an enormous string of unconnected words, thrown together on paper and bound. A lot of people like to take the pretentious, highfalutin mindset of "Oh, you just didn't get it".

I didn't get it? Read the first 10 pages and tell me what, exactly - or even generally - is going on, then.

That is one of my top 3 favorite books ever. I think that some people just like it or don't. Getting it or not getting it is pretty irrelevant, it's more if you enjoy that kind of thing or not aesthetically.

[Rizzo in a box]

"Naked Lunch"

I've enjoyed other works by Burroughs quite a bit, but I just couldn't stand this one. It was the most incoherent, jumbled word salad I ever read. It literally made no sense. It was just an enormous string of unconnected words, thrown together on paper and bound. A lot of people like to take the pretentious, highfalutin mindset of "Oh, you just didn't get it".

I didn't get it? Read the first 10 pages and tell me what, exactly - or even generally - is going on, then.

Book made perfect sense to me when I was w/ding from heroin.

[Dionysus]

More than anything else, it is a very, very funny book once you get past all the ass fucking and imagery bombardment.

[FON]

Naked Lunch isn't supposed to make sense. At least not much. The book isn't even meant to be read from cover to cover. Pretty sure I recall Burroughs saying that it was meant to be opened and read at random.

Don't try and make sense out of Naked Lunch, just sit back and enjoy your word salad.

[ibm]

To Kill A Mockingbird is absolute shit.

[jerome]

^ yeah i didn't like it much either. i mean, i get why it's famous because it confronted issues a lot of people avoided to publicly reveal at the time. so i respect it for that reason. but for a book where i search for awesome paragraphs with some kickass literary moments, nahhhh.

[vonunov]

http://vonunov.nu/voracious/divergent.php

It made a decent if shallow movie (good for a high afternoon) but the book was just painful.