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?

  • shutupwes@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I love Heart of Darkness so much but I agree that it’s probably a bit beyond many high schoolers. I was (okay, am) a huge lit nerd so I was very into it and appreciated the ways in which the narrator is very much portrayed as vile and horrible by Conrad, but I’m not sure if someone who isn’t passionate about fiction would really read into that much further than just taking the narrator at face value and assuming Conrad believes in the colonial project