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?
Old man and the Sea. I found the book annoying to read. It was simple sentence structure after simple sentence structure after simple sentence structure. Nobody talks like that, nobody wants to read that. It was a chore to read, and I’ve read Great Expectations unabridged. Otherwise the story was fine for what it wanted to convey, even though it’s maybe still a bit too “artsy”