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?

  • FanX99BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Verga’s novels. They’re greatly written, I give them that, but the author’s pretension to describe the world as it is while depicting a world that is so unrealistically cruel to the point of being funny…It annoys me to no end.

    Also, Thucydides. He is a great historian and a great writer, but he has always this bleak way of telling everything because blablabla human nature is evil, and he is always insulting Herodotus under the lines because he is so sure of being a better historian than him.

    If I want someone yelling that the world sucks I’ll just turn on the TV news. And you know what? I despise the TV news for this exact reason.