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?
Anything written by James Joyce. Interminable nonsense as a whole
Oh yeah, I tried to read Ulysses and couldn’t finish it. Just awfully unreadable gibberish.
Portrait of an Artist is fairly conventional in a way, much like Picasso’s early work. Not an endorsement for you to read it mind you, just stating that not everything the man wrote was willfully inscrutable.