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The Fountainhead. Full stop. Purple prose by a Soviet hack writer with a serious r*pe kink, in praise of dog-eat-dog social Darwinism.
Jehova’s Bible. No, I’m being serious.
I read the whole thing. I can’t remember shit from it. At that time my life was more boring than reading that book, though.
Beast by Benchley. I’m still mad at the time I wasted.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
I’m not talking about the story, I’m talking about the writing style. I could not tolerate it.
Well, what do you expect from a compilation of letters from a half frozen scientific explorer telling the tale of how he found an almost dead guy who tells him the story of when a monster told him how a family taught a foreigner to speak and read. Of course the writing would suffer, at one point you’re so many layers deep that you have to wonder if Inception took inspiration from it.
I don’t have to justify it, I didn’t like it 🤷
A whole lot of the discussion occuring here is the justification of opinions, obviously nobody can force you to participate but if you don’t want to then it seems kinda pointless to have commented at all in the first place
I loved it!it is hard reading old shit tho
I didn’t expect you to justify it, I’m just saying the book is old and took an unconventional approach to storytelling, it is to be expected that that writing style would not go well with everyone.
Jesus Christ you’re so obnoxious. I don’t like the book, deal with it.
I literally couldn’t care less whether you like the book or not, I’m expressing my reasoning for not liking the writing, you’re not forced to agree, nor am I saying that’s the reason you didn’t liked it. Chill out man.
Who else’s Frankenstein could it have been?
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but several people heavily and repeatedly recommended me the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
I had read a few books by King before and really enjoyed some of them. Even the first book in the series (written well before the others) was interesting but the whole series is just unbearable. It’s long and disjointed and while there are some interesting moments, there are three times the amount of adding grotesquerie for no narrative reason, literal self-inserts, or worse, grabbing references to other IPs that get shoehorned into the story.
I know there are a lot of people that liked the series and I am happy it exists for those people, and I realize not everything is made for my tastes, but the ending was just so irredeemably bad. It makes the ending of GoT look like Breaking Bad.The first three were good. When I got to the fourth, where it explains how he became the most feared man on the planet I noped out.
you disliked Wizard amd Glass?
Yes.
I couldn’t make it past the endless beach with the lobstrocities
The worst part was that there were references to cool things that he’d find in the tower once he got there, such as music that was enjoyed by people on a particular floor, and then
spoiler (but please do read this so that it robs you of any desire to read the series)
Stephen King had the last book end with a time loop going back to the first book like a coward.
I dragged myself through the last couple of books to find out what was in that stupid tower and was so incredibly disappointed…
(I will say, though, that, the city of people who used their psychic powers to destroy the Universe because someone was going to destroy it anyway so it might as well be them because the job paid really well was pretty apt, though!)
Yeah, the Dark Tower series was a big ol’ DNF for me. I just wasn’t really able to get invested in anything. I stopped at the part with the train.
dnf?
also the next one “Wizard and Glass” is just a big retrospection and might be one of his best books imk
DNF is short for Did Not Finish.
Sword of Truth, not sure how terry goodkind got 11 something books published
The Martian
The Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb. It was my first experience with what could be considered a “grimdark” or where things consistently go wrong no matter how well the protagonists achieve their goals.
It was just a constant stream of the main character getting shit on and failing the people around him (despite doing his very best not to) without any successes. I think I got through two books before I finally had enough.
I’m sure people enjoy it, and it’s well written… it just did not fit me at all.
We read The Room by Jonas Karlsson for my works book club. I’m so glad it was only a 3-hour audiobook. I was done after the first hour. It was labeled as “magical realism” and a " dark comedy" but it was just some guy with mental issues trying to adjust and fail in an office setting. The main character is just an asshole so it makes it hard to relate to them, because of that you can’t take their side when people start to question his Room. It just ends with a whole lot of nothing and I thought it was a total waste of time.
Worst book…
Bartleby, the Scrivener.
Written by Herman Melville, famously known as the author of “Moby Dick”.
Which is of course second worst book.
Ready Player One and Three Body Problem stick out to me as regularly recommended scifi slop.
Liar Liar by Stephen Fry
Friend and I were joking about 120 Days of Sodom so I decided I should pick it up to see what the fuss was about… Huge mistake! It is more deviant than I possibly imagined a book that old being (and I was aware the first draft was written on toilet paper lol)
Forest Gump. When the movie came out one of the people who was there was going on and on about the book. I picked up a copy and wish I hadn’t. Its terrible. The movie is great but its based on pure garbage.
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
