The Bible. So so boring.
Can you think of a greater blasphemy than to say that some junk written by mortals is the word of the absolute highest creator imaginable?
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
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I had to make a separate exclusive category on goodreads just to keep this piece of trash out of my read pile.
It’s called power vs force, it’s some dumpster fire pseudo-science that’s really just vague ramblings of nothing. Don’t read it. Seriously.
Ulysses by James Joyce
Couldn’t get past ten pages. I believe it’s popular so that stupid people can think themselves as smart. I doubt no one has actually read the whole thing
“De Grote Zaal” by Jacoba van Velde. For school we had to read many books. In the earlier years this could be anything as long as it was Dutch, so translated versions of English books were fine. I could read stuff like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc. However, at some point the requirements shifted, and we were only allowed to read Dutch (non-translated) works of literature. This shit single-handedly killed all my fun in reading. Dry books about old people or about the war.
“De Grote Zaal” is the one that I remember the most. It’s a short book, but it goes pretty much nowhere and doesn’t at all speak to the imagination of a teen guy. To me it represents the death of reading as a hobby. I’ve tried to pick up reading again, but it has since been replaced by other things and I just don’t make the time for it anymore.
Catcher in the rye
Same. I thought it was so dumb
“Effi Briest” all the way.
I know this is controversial, but I really hated ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’, the main character is just so annoying. I had a hard time finishing that one.
I tried listening to the audiobook, and the narrator is even more annoying than Wil Wheaton, which I didn’t think was possible
I had the same issue, but my wife loved it. We have agreed to disagree.
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest. It’s just a zillion loose threads of a novel that leads nowhere in particular.
Controversial opinion but Don Quixote, so fucking long and boring, had a horrible time trying to get through it for class
