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?
Definitely Finnegan’s Wake. Couldn’t make it through more than like 30 pages of that. It feels like someone printed 6000 cans of alphabet soup.
I’ve always thought that Finnegan Wake awake is an example of a troll. He wrote it as a joke, he made up a new language. He expected that everybody was gonna bother to learn the new language, and read the book but almost nobody reads that book.