bit of a cheat but 120 Days of Sodom
The one redeeming part is the guy who fucks a horse and it gives birth to a half man half horse and then the fucks that
the rest is descriptions of pedophilia, coprophagy and torturing children to death.
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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I gave up on Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close after one chapter. No wonder neurotypicals think autistics are just insufferable nobs.
Catcher in the Rye. I try it again every couple of years just to see if I can relate to it, and nope - it's still just as stupid as the first time I read it.
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Mine is "the catcher in the rye".
The main character is insufferable and not enough bad things happened to him to make it worth reading the book.
Moby Dick is the book I hated the most. Just the worst slog that i remember making it through.
Noooo :( I love Moby Dick.
Granted I listened to the audiobook
I know there are a lot of people who love it for the same reasons I hated it, people have different tastes.
I love Lord of the Flies because it gets to the point!
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A collection of short stories by Harlan Ellison.
It was an absolutely insufferable read. Specifically, his foreword between each story.
"Repent Harlequin!"
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As much as I loved many of Stephensen's books, I could not get into Anathem.
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I tend to quit books if I don't find them very good. One I did finish that I fucking hated was The Girl on the Train. All of the characters were fucking insufferable.
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Game of thrones, for me. Made for a good basis for a show. Fucking terribly dull to read.
Yeah I finished the first book and put it down and said fuck this shit.
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. If you could distill pure insufferable smugness into a liquid, this was him squirting it into your mouth while youβre not paying attention and laughing at you while you sputter and gag.
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There is a review on goodreads that sums it up pretty nicely.
Literature about literature, books about books, literature about books, books about literature, literature about literature, books about books, ...
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Oh sad face. It is one of my favorite books and also think the movie is a piece of art.
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https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/44308/pg44308-images.html
It's also FULL of errors
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