I need to read something that’ll piss me off to stop using reading as a tool of procrastination for a while.
Recc me something that’ll make me mad enough to take a break from reading thx.
My exceptions are no Hoover, nothing religious, no books as part of a series unless it can be a standalone like a spinoff
by unique_plastique
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James Joyce- Ulysses;
Its considered a Classic and is definetly good af but since the whole Book is written in Stream of Consciousness i found it very agonizing to read, almost painful at Times cause you always go back and forth on a page and try to make up who speaks to whom and what is actual Thought and what is Real
Atlas Shrugged
Aww, shit. I was gonna say any Hoover!
I love dark humor and reading-for-irony, but John Ringo’s “Ghost” was too repulsive for me to get more than a few pages into, and I had liquid assistance. It’s beyond rape apology, it’s been described as the literary equivalent of Ringo rolling in rotten fish for money. There are some truly batshit plot points, and they’re not even funny because the writing is so creepy.
(I don’t blame Ringo for this, he apparently feels a lot of shame about this series, and I understand why he wrote it. It’s just . . . vile)
For people other than OP, a [helpful reviewer](https://hradzka.livejournal.com/194753.html) summarized it so that you can get all the batshittery without the slimy feeling in your soul.
Some terrible old sci fi:
[The Two Faces of Tomorrow by James P. Hogan](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2220766.The_Two_Faces_of_Tomorrow)
[A Hostage for Hinterland by Arsen Darnay](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2945832)
Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk. I love his other works, but Pygmy is so bad it made me angry.
I get mad every time i read bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
But the only thing that sucks about that book is what the white man did to the Natives
I love John Green but Paper Towns irritated me a lot. The characters didn’t have much depth. And most of the book was just a lot of buildup