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?

  • ManWhoWasntThursday@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I despise the classics! All of them! Get them off their pedestals. Twenty lashes to each and every worshipper that prostrated before them! Fifty for each and every one that chanted the same old words of praise that they learned from the other and to which they added nothing new. A hundred for those who claim to have found eternal truths about human condition in them. A hundred!