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?

  • Complex-Definition61@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My issue that I take with people who talk about racist themes in books written before our time…is that they loved in a very racist society and culture. Dislike those themes all you want, but please do not warn people away from reading them because of it, or lower your rating because of it as well. You really have to take into consideration the time period it was written in. Yeah, in that period of time the solution was putting her in a room and isolating her. Some people would have killed her or cast her out to the streets where she would have died. She wasn’t killed by her family because they were sort of decent, and Rochester couldn’t cast her out because he was married to her. It’s a cultural difference that should not be considered as some horrible evil in the context of the book, because in the context of the book they were honestly decent where she was concerned.