I would say Bukowski, but the person I’m thinking of might like it. If they have to read it, I’d say Marcel Proust’s *In Search of Lost Time.* It would take this person the rest of their life and they wouldn’t understand a word of it.
TedIsAwesom on
Lovelock by Orson Scott Card
They will read it (and assuming they like the genre) want to read the sequel. It’s been like 25+ years and he still hasn’t written the sequel and it’s supposed to be a trilogy!
TheGospelQ on
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
OR
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
(Just kidding, I have no clue.)
Alannaxyz on
7 and 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
It’s a great premise and it’s super long and then just… nothing. Huge letdown for what felt like 500 pages.
No_Employer5768 on
Bukowski
Annual-Access4987 on
Finnegan’s Wake. My eye still twitches when I see that book.
Potential-Win-9175 on
The Villains series by V. E. Schwab. The first one? Great, totally hooks you in. The second one? Enormous, massive cluster. Horrid ending. Ruins the goodwill and impact of the first book.
ifinkyourenice on
Infinite jest. It’s just super long
gamename on
Blood meridian by Cormac McCarthy
seadawg1975 on
The Bible
Rosebudsinmay on
Fix Her Up: Tessa Bailey and Fourth Wing: Rebecca Yarros
GrabSpankingEw on
The alchemist, what a waste of paper!
Internal_Set_6564 on
The Art of the Deal by…oh, you know.
Dazzling-Ad4701 on
I did a thing once I’m still ashamed of: I gave a copy of John Gardner’s Grendel to a very very religious person because they were also very very intelligent and very very intellectual, and once they found out I read too, they *would not* stop hounding me with intelligent and intellectual conversations about old low Norse and Beowulf and suchlike topics.
I still feel bad about it. he made me feel hunted, but he did not deserve that. he just wasn’t the right person to give that book to.
SlickDan35 on
No longer Human
yasnovak on
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee. My favorite book of all time is To Kill A Mockingbird. Atticus Finch is my favorite book character ever!! So this book was super disappointing and I just pretend like it doesn’t exist.
IndigoAndromeda on
Caraval. It was so boring, bland, and slow that it put me in a reading slump.
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I would say Bukowski, but the person I’m thinking of might like it. If they have to read it, I’d say Marcel Proust’s *In Search of Lost Time.* It would take this person the rest of their life and they wouldn’t understand a word of it.
Lovelock by Orson Scott Card
They will read it (and assuming they like the genre) want to read the sequel. It’s been like 25+ years and he still hasn’t written the sequel and it’s supposed to be a trilogy!
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
OR
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
(Just kidding, I have no clue.)
7 and 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
It’s a great premise and it’s super long and then just… nothing. Huge letdown for what felt like 500 pages.
Bukowski
Finnegan’s Wake. My eye still twitches when I see that book.
The Villains series by V. E. Schwab. The first one? Great, totally hooks you in. The second one? Enormous, massive cluster. Horrid ending. Ruins the goodwill and impact of the first book.
Infinite jest. It’s just super long
Blood meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Bible
Fix Her Up: Tessa Bailey and Fourth Wing: Rebecca Yarros
The alchemist, what a waste of paper!
The Art of the Deal by…oh, you know.
I did a thing once I’m still ashamed of: I gave a copy of John Gardner’s Grendel to a very very religious person because they were also very very intelligent and very very intellectual, and once they found out I read too, they *would not* stop hounding me with intelligent and intellectual conversations about old low Norse and Beowulf and suchlike topics.
I still feel bad about it. he made me feel hunted, but he did not deserve that. he just wasn’t the right person to give that book to.
No longer Human
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee. My favorite book of all time is To Kill A Mockingbird. Atticus Finch is my favorite book character ever!! So this book was super disappointing and I just pretend like it doesn’t exist.
Caraval. It was so boring, bland, and slow that it put me in a reading slump.