It’s a question inspired by this post https://www.reddit.com/r/books/s/s2jK2DzFrA by u/oh_sneezeus
Is there any book that is considered a classic or regularly shows up on the “100 books to read before you die” lists and such, you had high expectations before reading and then you ended up absolutey detesting?
For me it’s Blindness by José Saramago, it started off good and then page after page it was becoming more unbearable for me to read, I hated the characters, the things they were doing and the conclusions of the book. I was really disappointed because the plot seemed really good and all I ended up with was frustration.
Is there a book that did the same to you?
by kmadddie
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Why couldn’t I rate a book zero? Who is stopping me?
I Promessi Sposi by Alessandro Manzoni, anything by Ayn Rand or Bukowski (by gosh how much time I wasted on them, I regret every second), Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Le Petit Prince. I could go on, my tastes are not keen on pretentious crap.
Not a classic but we read it in school so
“The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”.
I just hate when adults write kids as if they are plain stupid. That boy was supposed to be 9 but had the thought processes befitting a 5 year old.
Dracula. It’s way too long and most of the conflict comes from male characters refusing to talk to female characters cause they don’t think they can handle anything. Frankenstein is so much better
Wuthering Heights.
I might have been able to stomach it the *third* time I was assigned this book for a course if I didn’t know that once I finished the first part, I would just have to read the same story over again in the second half. It’s brutal, just awful people being awful to each other (kinda like a James Gunn movie, but without the jokes)