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?
Brave New World. I read it in 11th grade and unless misremembered/misinterpreted it, there were absurd amounts of references to children having sex and playing sex games. It made me wildly uncomfortable. For the life of me I couldn’t understand why a room of 16 year olds were being made to read it. And then on top of that I just had a really hard time comprehending it at all, which exacerbated the problem with wanting to get past all the child sex in the beginning