>incest rape

Go on...

The spice does do wierd things to you, man.

Dammit, I liked that book

>>41361029


Fuck you bro, Bluest Eye is an amazing story. You're totally missing the point of it. She is black living in a white world, therefore, the blue eyes (a characteristic of white people) she wishes she could obtain. She gets raped, scammed, and goes through the process of growing up etc.

ib4 : nigger


worse book ever :
Anything by Hemmingway. Fuck that asshole.

>>41361029

lemme guess, it was for school

>>41361029
Oh god, I just remember that I've actually read this. Fucking terrible book. Worst part is when the nigger kid kills the cat, then blames it on the girl and doesn't get in trouble.

>implying blue eyes are good

breedlove
lol

>>41361029
>Discussing books on /v/

Proceed....

>>41361189
>implying you have to be raped and scammed in order to grow up

Beyond the Chocolate War

I read it in the sixth grade. Things I remember:

A dude has to watch as his girlfriend is raped in front of him. She later dumps him over it.

Another dude spends the entire book trying to kill himself. He finally succeeds near the end when he jumps off his bridge. His last thoughts are something to the effect of "Oh, fuck, I don't want to die".

There's a fat kid who gets a boner every time he gets in a fight.

The phrase "You like to smell your own shit, too, don't you Archie?"

Something about masturbation.

Book was fucked up.

Catcher in the Rye.

seriously if you enjoyed this you need to die

Blue eyes aren't all that good. I prefer red eyes

It's about a girl who gets impregnated by a vampire and harbors a demon child within her womb, and due to maternal instincts has to raise it, while her husband tells a werewolf to fuck her to make her feel better. The cut the vampire baby out and bite her so she stays alive, then her baby is 10 in like 3 weeks, and some italian vampires are like 'lol their kid is a vampire' and try to kill them.
Then vampires from all over the world, including amazonian vampires, team up to defend themselves, in what basically becomes a shouting match
Then the werewolf was sexually attracted to the 12-year old looking 1 month old

>>41361293
This is for worst books, not best

>>41361308


No, faggot. Meaning, those are things that occur in book.

Green eyes are god tier.

>>41361189
Yeah, okay, she thinks being white will make her beautiful when it won't, fuck yeah symbolism, symbolism makes everything better.

IT STILL SUCKS.

OP has no taste, or hasn't read many books.

My least favorite book is Heart of Darkness. Every two-bit motherfucker out there thinks he has something meaningful to write or teach about that story.

Good god that book was terrible OP

Still, it's not really video games

>>41361316
>PHONIESPHONIESPHONIESPHONIESPHONIES
>WHY DO I HATE EVERYTHING
>I'M A DICK TO EVERYONE AND THEY DON'T WANT TO BE AROUND ME NOW, I DON'T GET IT, IT MUST BE BECAUSE EVERYONE SUCKS

Some day Twilight will be a standard english book assignment

Maybe I'm missing some of the context, but as far as I can tell, this book is an extremely basic philosophical treatise on the human condition that completely lacks any sort of sublety and is written with some of the most dry, disconnected prose I have ever read.

>>41361189
>Anything by Hemmingway. Fuck that asshole.


DO HO HO

>>41361349
Thanks, bro. I have green eyes. :D.


I never did like The Gathering. Some bastard sets a dog on fire for laughs and then goes and kills his dad or something.

>>41361342
whatthefuckamIreading.jpg
Fuck me is this what everyone loves twilight for?
The fuck is this shit?

One hell of a book.

>>41361189
>Anything by Hemmingway. Fuck that asshole.
YOU BEST BE JOKING NIGGER

Anything by Charles Dickens. Holy fuckballs, his writing is so goddamn DRY.

>>41361440
"Write a 5-page essay on why Edward is SOOOO dreamy!"

Brown eyes are god tier.

>>41361308
>implying that you know how to comprehend the words that you read.

>>41361440
I heard it already was.

You know what's really freaky?

Fahrenheit 451. If you read it as is, it sucks. But read into it deeper then it hits VERY close to home. Scary.

Jane Eyre.
The most boring and obnoxious book I have ever read.

>>41361563
Do you have a problem with robot hounds and people getting burned to death?

>>41361189

8/10 on the Hemingway part

Morrison's Playing in the Dark is a great book. It's not fiction, but it's a really important book in terms of race in America.

So far this semester I've read some amazing books for my 20th c. American novels class. Playing in the Dark, Grapes of Wrath (first time reading it at age 24--bad, I know), The Known World, and The Namesake. Really, really good stuff.

>>41361440
Fuck, at my high school, 12th grade Myth & Folklore Honors level. There is no god.

>>41361563

I fucking loved Fahrenheit 451.

Bitches don't know about my Series of Unfortunate events.

I hated the Scarlet Letter. I had to read in four times in my academic career. So goddamn boring.

This biography of Sandy Koufax. It was a Jew author sucking Koufax's dick because he was a Jew too, and talking about how fucking perfect Koufax is, a hero without any flaws. The thing is I like Sandy Koufax but this book COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE OF A DICK SUCK.

>Anything by Hemmingway. Fuck that asshole.
10/10. Say that to my face and not online and see what happens.

Holden was supposed to be unlikeable. He's the typical angsty teenager who thinks he has the world figured out and is always talking big. You can still hate it, just wanted to point this out.

>>41361316

>Catcher in the Rye.

They should have made an anime about it, think about it. His sistere would end every sentence with "Holden-kun"

>>41361383
Heart of Darkness was the one book i refused to finish in high school. I'd read everything else but god help me if i was going to finish that book. I don't care what symbolism it had, it is the worst book ever written.

>>41361442
read up on absurdism, that's Camus in a nutshell, you will better understand his style and disconnected form of writing.

>>41361442

meh, The Plague was nothing special.

Camus' best is The Myth of Sisyphus. Read it. Be in Awe.

Here's my pick
What a shitty story

FINNEGAN'S WAKE

SHITTIEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ALL YEARS

>>41361189
No. Everyone got the point.
Seriously, if you were above the age of 8, you got the point.
Hemingway is also probably the best author to have lived thus far.

>>41361663
THOSE BOOKS WERE GOD TIER
FUCK YOU

>>41361681

That fishing story was good.

Great Expectations

I don't even want to explain this horrible shit

Frankenstein
'Bawwwwwwww I'm a monster no one loves me I'M KILLING PEOPLE FOR YOU FRANKENSTEIN-SENPEI WHY DON'T YOU LOVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE'

anything by Chuck Palahniuk is fucking horrible high school angst bullshit, it's so contrived and simple and yet teens fucking eat that shit up.

The Color Purple.

>>41361720
What the fuck is Finnegan's Wake even about?

>>41361691
>His sistere would end every sentence with "Holden-kun"

>>41361506
Well...I'm going to be honest.


I read the series, and I enjoyed it. Except some parts, where it was just sappy stuff, the rest was pretty decently written. It would definately appeal to young teenagers more than the more "intellectual" reader.

Only major thing I hate about is the ending's a gigantic troll.


I read it because my girlfriend insisted I do, and see for myself it's not all that bad, and to get over the fanbase of idiotic tween girls crushing on Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson.

>Anything by Hemmingway. Fuck that asshole.
10/10 would rage again.

>>41361720
DO HO HO

FFFFFFFFFFFFUCK THE AWAKENING. WE HAD TO DO FIVE SUMMARIES OF "BOOKS THAT HAD LITERARY MERIT" IN AP ENGLISH. I WAS GOING TO DO THE AWAKENING BUT I COULDN'T BRING MYSELF TO THINK ABOUT SUCH A TERRIBLE BOOK.

Also, I hated To Kill a Mockingbird when I first read it in 9th grade, but it's definitely grown on me.

>>41361293
God damn i loved that book, fucking funny as fuck


you wont find another more detailed book on earth.

120 days of Sodom.

reason: too short.

Grade 12 english class my teacher required us to pick a book to do a million reports on, but she had these absurdly strict requirements on what we could use. I ended up just asking her what to use.

Big fucking mistake, she gave me some awful book about some dude who lives in bumfuck nowhere and hates it, then spends the entire book bitching about it. I can't even remember the damn name of the book. Before I read that piece of shit my least favorite book ever was catcher in the rye.

The Stand by Stephen King.

Holy fuck, take longer to get to the point, why don't you? The best part was at the beginning when everyone was dying. After that it just dragged on for 500 pages of old black women.

50 posts and not one fucking sage? You have to be shitting me, /v/. You guys really don't like videogames, fucking Christ.

Only good books are Robert Dahl books.

Anything Steinbeck is shit.

>>41361633
what. the. fuck.

well, On a happier note Dreamcatcher is the best Stephen King book, ever. Fuck you if you think differently.
The movie was damn good as well

BURN IT BURN IT!!! Fucking horrible!!!

Some chick is wet for this dude
she gets fucked up by a tornado made of pissed off chickens
when they finally fuck the world stops in it's tracks to do the same.
oh yea and at one point she goes to an asylum taking a blanket with her that stretches fore miles...

>>41361767
>>Frakenstein
>>'Bawwwwwwww I'm a monster no one loves me I'M KILLING PEOPLE FOR YOU FRANKENSTEIN-SENPEI WHY DON'T YOU LOVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE'

itt reading books literally word by word instead of thinking about the purpose of each element and the meaning behind the text

and people wonder why today we have to explain jokes on TV and every movie is an action movie

Found 'Ishmael' to be a difficult book. I think I was simply too young at the time to fully comprehend most of it. Believe I read it for a school assignment when I was 13.

Another shitty book? 'The Lovely Bones.' The descriptions of Heaven and the first two-thirds of the book were fantastic, but the last third was atrocious. Between subplots randomly disappearing and the ghostly possession of former-best friends to have sex with long-lost love interests, I just got annoyed with it. Though, the way the killer is disposed of at the end is brilliant.

For awesome books though, 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time' is awesome. Basically a detective novel, but starring Chris-chan.

Jane Eyre. Jesus fuck, what a boring piece of shit.

>>41361588

Jane Eyre is a good romance novel, but Bronte needed to cut out the like the last 300 pages. Everything after Jane finds out Rochester's secret and leaves Thornfield Hall is utter shit.

>>41361316
Salinger is a magnificent author.

>Not vidya

1984

OMG THEY'RE OPPOSING BIG BROTHER SHIT IS SO CASH AND THEY AREN'T GETTING CAU-
>Stockholm Syndrome
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Also; Siddhartha. Fucking hated that book. So, so much.

ANIMORPHS, MOTHERFUCKERS

HAVE YOU READ THEM

>>41361836
10/10 again. Jesus Christ.

>>41361835

This.

>>41361794
>hating To Kill a Mocking Bird

Fucking kids

>>41361596

It was okay, but the story itself was kinda boring. But seriously, Ray Bradbury is a goddamn prophet.

>>41361669
OH FUCK SECONDED. Also, THAT MOVIE.

This book is fucking terrible.

Some fat kid gets framed for stealing shoes. He's send to a camp in the middle of a desert. The camp overseer wants the inmates to dig holes to look for some kind of treasure. Can't remember anything more. Only that there are quite a lot of unmemorable minor characters.

>>41361870
Jane was such an awful protagonist. HURP A DERP MY MORALITY IS WHAT I'VE BEEN TOLD TO BELIEVE IN. Rochester at least had some complexity.

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

>>41361848
That's not "The Stand" OR "The Tommyknockers"

>>41361835

Fountainhead.

ROARK RAPES HER BUT IT'S OKAY BECAUSE HE'S SO DREAMY AND BRILLIANT AND DOMINIQUE LOVES HIM SO MUCH SHE WANTS TO BE RAPED AGAIN AND AGAIN

Anything by Pearl S. Buck

>>41361927
FUCK YES YOU ARE THE BEST QUASI-GRIMDARK SERIES FOR TEENS EVER HOLY SHIT.

I still own every one of them. Surprisingly dark for a series written for, like, 14 year olds.

Reading Lolita In Tehran. Maybe if it didn't keep on trying to convince us that it WASN'T a fucking political commentary trying to shove opinions down your throat when it clearly was I wouldn't have minded all the feminist bullshit it spouted.

Runners up include: Great Expectations (Okay story, hated the way it was told. I realize that a lot of people like it though and I don't really think my opinion on the subject matters all that much) and Animal Farm. At the time we didn't know shit about the Russian Revolution so it was just a stupid story to me. I read 1984 soon after and loved it far more than Animal Farm.

>>41361834
See, we really need a literature board - /l/.

>>41361974

WTF? This book was the shit when I was a kid, it had everything.

>>41361990
The stand (The book) Dragged on far too much. I enjoyed the movie though.

>>41361968
The original Dune was awesome.

My opinnion.

The Giver

So, there's a perfect Ayn Rand society, everyone's healthy, old people are cared for, everyone has a job, blah blah blah.

One day, kids are given their careers, but main character dude isn't called. Turns out he's gonna be THE FUCKING GIVER HOLY SHIT. No one really knows what that is, but it's apparently huge.

The kid goes to see the Giver, and learns that the Giver has to remember stuff people lost, like colors, music, sex, and Christmas. Kid gets all emotional over this.

The kid learns some baby he's caring for is gonna be euthanized, so he runs off into the woods and nearly dies, but then they ride a sled into a Christmas village or some shit and you have to read the sequel.

Fuck you, 8th grade English, you're what made me hate reading and get C's and D's in nearly every high school English class I took.

Honestly I really hated this book. I don't care that it was true. Whole story was told by someone random writer's perspective even though he had nothing to do with the story at all.

It was about some guy that wanted to change his life and see the world through a new view. So he gets rid of everything and hitchhikes around the country.

Nothing interesting happens.

Then the writer talks about himself for a while and what mountain climbing is like and what his own life is like and all his accomplishments.

Then the main guy dies from eating a poisonous potato seed in the middle of Alaska.

Then the writer talks about himself again. Again, he has nothing to do with the story at all.

>>41361974

If only if only the ps3hasnogaems cried.

>>41361968
whoa now, Frank Herbert's first Dune is beautifully written, I don't even read sci-fi because I hate it but wow, it's well-written.

pretty much everything by Stephen King

I read every single one of his books in Jr. High

>>41361663
>Jimi hendrix on cocaine

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>>41361968
Shut your whore mouth right now.
SHUT. YOUR. FILTHY. WHORE. MOUTH.

Don't get me wrong, I love Dostoevsky, and The Idiot is one of my favorite novels of all time, but Jesus, this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Bees-Monk-Kidd/dp/0143114557/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qi
d=1257127688&sr=8-1

I describe this as the ultimate vagina book. Vagina book meaning that you must have a vagina to appreciate it on any level.

The games? Well, I've never played them, but I've heard quite a few positive reviews. The book? A seven hundred and seventy page political statement from republifag Tom "I'mma beat a tree with an MP5 'cuz trees is UNAMURICAN" Clancy.

Also, every kid in Lord of the Flies drove me nuts except for the main character.

>>41361974
AUGH THIS TOO. HATE THIS SHIT

I had to watch Dead Poet's Society 3 times in my high school career. I wanted to die every time.

>>41362059
Oh man. I LOVED that movie. Never seen the book but that movie was damn near fucking beautiful.
The ending made me cry manly tears

>>41361974
FUCK YOU HOLES IS GREAT ASSHOLE.

>>41361974

He gets lost and has to eat onions the end.

>>41361974
The movie was awesome, though.

Love in the Time of Cholera

One of the main characters is in love with another of the main characters when they were teens. He vowed to stay single for her. He waited 50 years or so. He knew exactly up to the day how long it was. Proposed to her right after her husband's funeral. In those 50 years though, he fucked all sorts of prostitutes and milfs and his niece or something, I don't know how they were related. Guy was crazy. And then they finally get together on a boat ride, and they have old 70 year old sex.

Fuck this book. And apparently, it has "literary merit."

>>41362059

the movie was nice

>>41361759
FUCKING THIS

HOLY SHIT IT WAS HORRIBLE

the house of seven gables, i had to read it in my junior year in highschool


OLD PEOPLE SIT AROUND AND DO NOTHING

I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER HOW IT ENDED BECAUSE I PURGED IT FROM MY MIND

FUCK IT WAS SO BORING

>>41361846
The worst part is that when I confronted the teacher about it, he fucking DEFENDED that fat cunt's wet dream. Fucking queer.

>>41361442
it was supposed to be a very direct statement of why people should have morals, from a modern and non god-based perspective. not really intended to be subtle, or even literature in the sense that most people judge literature.

>>41362132
Go in acting all high-and-mighty, yet forget the image.

Dammitall.

Hey, there, faggots. Reporting in to let you know I'm still the most fucking awesome book you ever read when you were a kid.

>>41361974
It didn't help how painfully predictable the entire story was either.

Every kid book stereotype happened in it. I mean the teachers could have saved a lot of trouble by just making us watch a Disney movie.

>>41361974
I refuse to get trolled by this.

>>41361488
>The Gathering
Yeah it was pretty crappy. LOL I GOT TRANSFERRED TO A NEW SCHOOL AND SOME WIERD SHIT SEEMS TO BE HAPPENING, OH LOL THE SCHOOL PRINCIPLE IS SOME SORT OF MONSTER IN CHARGE OF THE EVIL BECAUSE A WEIRD LOLI TOLD ME SO AND NOW I'VE GOT TO JOIN THIS GROUP OF FELLOW TEENS TO SOLVE MYSTERIES AND COLLECT ARTIFACTS THAT SOMEHOW DEFEAT THE EVIL WHILE GETTING FUCKED OVER BY EVERYONE AND MY DOG GETS KILLED. OH LOL LOOK IT'S TIME FOR THE FINAL BATTLE "MAY THE CHAIN PREVAIL", BLINDING FLASH OF LIGHT AND EVERYONE ELSE WAKES UP NOT REMEMBERING A THING.

It's just like some sort of terrible, terrible anime.

>>41362113
>>41362098
>>41362053

Thank you, guys! For Atreides!

ITT: people proving every medium of entertainment has subjective quality

>>41361974

I fucking loved Holes.

The book that singlehandedly killed my love of reading was No Longer Human by some Japanese guy. Apparently it's super famous in Japan and the author killed himself after writing it or some shit. We had to read it in high school because my teacher was a weeaboo before 4chan was even created.

Long story short this book is like Catcher in the Rye if the protagonist was a man instead of a boy, fucked up SO MUCH WORSE than Holden and was so much more hateable, really, this guy is a complete piece of shit, and if it covered like 10 years.

Seriously FUCK that book.

>>41361834
There really needs to be a "Literature" board.

>>41362247
Not trolling. I seriously didn't like it.

>>41361974
Fuck you, this book was one of my childhood highlights.

>>41362119
Really? I'm always told that I was dumb to have read The Idiot and Crime and Punishment before Brothers and Notes from the Underground. Odd.

>>41362119

Was a good book.

why did i even read this

>>41361767

Frankenstien was about the dangers of, you know what? Screw it, you're not going to care.

>>41362144

Nostalgia bro.

>>41362114

Trolling. Even if you aren't religious, the Bible is one of most well written collection of books in human history.

>>41361691

over my dead rotting corpse you mfer

>>41361835
Wait, do you mean Roald or am I thinking of another R. Dahl?
>>41361663
>>41361927
>>41361974
Trolls, the lot of you!

>>41361663

>Bitches don't know about my Series of Unfortunate events.

you best be trollan nigger

my pick: Feed by M.T. Anderson

the story was shit, the author couldn't have been more obvious about his views on technology and big corporations if he named the book "IN THE FUTURE WE WILL ALL RELY ON MACHINES TO DO EVERYTHING FOR US AND EVIL BUSINESSES WILL CONTROL THE WORLD AND WE'LL ALL DIE"

fuck this book. fuck it in its face. There have been books I didn't enjoy reading (Frankenstein up in this bitch) but I can look back and see what made them good books and why others might enjoy them.

This is a book that can only be enjoyed by the most Marxist of faggots.

House of Mirth is so fucking uninteresting. Everything is an unlikable and shallow asshole that cares only about money and social status. I don't care about their bridge parties and high society bullshit. Lily Bart is a stupid fucking bitch that keeps making poor choices. Am I suppose to feel sorry for Lily? No. She's a fucking moron.

>>41362295
>>>/book/

>>41361976

Jane was fine, she at least had some semblance of women's rights, unlike most women in that era.And I liked Rochester. But St John Rivers and her sisters and everyone else she meets after she leaves? They are some of the most boring characters ever, and serve no purpose other than ANGST ANGST ANGST

>>41361848
I thought the movie was pretty good, until I saw it again recently. It fucking sucked, dude. The acting/writing were both pretty shit-tier.

The book wasn't bad, but not nearly as good as The Shining or even The Langoliers.

>>41362152
Oh yeah, the onions. Thanks for the reminder.

>>41362341

I read up to the chapter after the first one, what's the first one called? Anyway I got kinda bored but thought it was cool when that guy came in and killed the other guy with a rock.

The problem with giving books as reading material in education is they never provide students the opportunity to learn anything from it in the sense of literature, and instead just hand them out like pills on the pretense "cuz book r gud 4 u tehy make u samart"

Instead of like "heres a good thats good for <specific writing techniques> read it out and analyze in this sense to get a better understanding of the technique, write about how you feel about that technique"

Instead you're just thrown a book and given a MySpace quiz over it

>>41361913

10/10

God this thread, including anyone who doesn't think Orwell and Hemingway have value are all making me want to run up to the nearest living thing and kill it.

AFRICANS KILLING EACHOTHER
THEN KILLING SOME MISSIONARIES
EVERYTHING GETS FUCKED UP AND EVERYONE DIES

MORE REASON NOT TO LIVE IN AFRICA

FUCK SCHOOL ASSIGNED BOOK

because of school, i barely read anymore

THIS. FUCKING. BOOK.

Madame Bovary

HOLY SHIT YOU ARE A TOTAL SLUT I THOUGHT THEY HAD THAT KIND OF ACTIVITY ON LOCK DURING THE VICTORIAN ERA FFUUUUUUUU

>>41362317
Notes is Dostoevsky's most awesome novella honestly, The Idiot kicks that much more ass than Brothers... I think so at least.

>>41362208
>>41361633

brb finding a bridge to jump off

>>41362140
I only saw it once and I hated it.

I always get that shit mixed up with The Emperor's Club, which was also fucking awful.

HATEHATEHATE

>>41362056

I actually really enjoyed The Giver. Sure the ending kind of blew, but the concept was fascinating. Basically showing the horrors of a uniform, non-creative population and how little advancement or joy can be garnered through it.

>>41362387

pic related

I'm completely convinced /v/ is /l/ as long as you give them something to bitch and troll about.

10th grade english was okay, there was too much boring stuff there, and Night was just plain freaky. We read Fahrenheit 421 at the very end and we were like WHY DID WE NOT GET TO READ MORE BOOKS LIKE THIS

The fuck guys? I really hate Holes, is it that hard to believe?

Don't give a shit about some redneck farmer drama. especially if its over 9000 pages long.

>>41362195
>>41362142
Funny enough, the movie was nothing like the book at all.

That shouldn't be a surprise though.

>>41362130

This this a thousand times this.

The Witcher.
Shitty generic fantasy + unlikable characters.

Anything by James Patterson. I work at a library and can tell you he is definitely the most popular author (at least in my area). His books are total shit. Like really, really shitty.

"YOUR WIFE HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED. YOU ARE A 40 YEAR OLD EX POLICE FORCE MAN AND YOU MUST SAVE HER."

I don't know if any of his books follow that exact story (maybe one does) but that's the general sort of shitty formula used in his books.

All popular fiction sucks.

>>41362554

OH FUCK YOU.

>>41362533
>/l/

/l/ - Lolikon

Here to inject some nostalgia. Awesome books from when I was a kid:

Hank the Cowdog Series
Anything Roald Dahl.
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Bunnicula
Max the Mighty
Goosebumps
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

FIGHT CLUB

THE BOOK

The movie is great, but the book is complete shit. It has plotholes, it makes no sense, it has the most anticlimactic ending in all literature, shit fucking sucks. I poop on you, Paluhniuk.

Worst book ever: Ethan Frome.

Runner Up: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

God I hated Freshman English.

>>41362483
when I had to avoid reading it, and I heard about the fuckweird African names, I proposed calling them "African number 1," "African number 2," etc... I got a detention because we had just finished a unit on the Holocaust.
I didn't know that because I didn't read that book either

this is my current class book


BRITTISH CLONES ARE CLONED TO BE HARVESTED FOR THEIR ORGANS BUT THEY LIVE IN A MICKY MOUSE BULLSHIT HARRY-POTTER GRADE ASSFUCKED BOARDING SCHOOL CALLED HAILSHAM

THEY SPEND PAGES JACKING OFF OVER HOW GREAT THEY THINK HAILSHAM IS

THE CLONES REALIZE THEY'RE GONNA DIE AND JUST RESIGN TO THEIR FATES AND DIE

THERES ALL THIS BULLSHIT INBETWEEN BUT WHY SHOULD I GIVE A SHIT THEY ALL DIE, AND NONE OF THESE CHARACTERS ARE EVEN LIKABLE

IT DOESN'T HELP MOST OF THE BOOK THEY'RE JUST A BUNCH IF BITCHY TEENAGE CLONE GIRLS

FUCK I HATE THIS BOOK SO MUCH

>>41362341
>Bible

>Well written

Ok, you honestly can't be serious. I'm not being "lol bible is dum caus god dont exists" but it's a terrible collection of stupid stories.

>>41362507

This.

Karamazov was just Dostoevsky trying too hard.

>>41362483
Oh god I wish that I could punch you in the back of the damn head.

I wouldn't wipe my ass with this fucking nigger book.

>>41362591
I've only read one of his books. I'm surprised he's still writing.
He's kind of the female equivalent of shit-tier trash that disguises poor technique with narrative.

I had a lot of trouble when I first read Crime and Punishment due to DETAILS WORDS POINTLESS SHIT but on a re-read I really liked it.

Here's my pick for a genuinely stupid fucking book: Atlas Shrugged

>>41362341

>Bible
>Well written

The Return of the Native. It was so bad, I've forcefully removed the memory of its plot, apparently. What I do remember is literally 10-15 page long descriptions of HILLS OF GRASS. Seriously? Even if it was the style at the time, who really needs to write that much about a FUCKING HILL WITH GRASS ON IT.

>>41362132
11/10

DID YOU EVEN READ THE BOOK
THEY WERE GOING TO KILL EVERYONE ON EARTH

THAT'S RIGHT, YOU.
YOU.

but
>lol i'm tom clancy and i gotta say the G3 is obsolete
wtf clancy

>>41362661
>>41362554

FUCK THIS THREAD IS MAKING ME RAGE SO MUCH

STOP TAKING EVERYTHING LITERALLY, LEARN TO READ IN CONTEXT

>>41362483
Only the main character dies. The book is amazing to anyone who didn't COMPLETELY MISS THE POINT.

Hate on a real shit book. Like this one. Biggest disappointment ever.

9th grade literature class.

Fuck. Yes.

>It's about an 11 girl who wishes she had blues eyes so she would be beautiful and make a friend.
>It's about an 11 girl who wishes she had blues eyes
>It's about an 11 girl
Just as planned >:]

/v/ - Literature

>>41362341
>Frankenstien was about the dangers of, you know what? Screw it, you're not going to care.

Sure, it's about how society is the real monster, but Frankenstein is so poorly-written. Someone needed to slap Shelley across the face and tell that silly bitch that purple prose is not good writing. Frankenstein himself is a pretentious fuckwit and the monster is a pile of bullshit. He can learn to fluently and eloquently speak a language by hearing people speak it alone just after he was created? He's capable of complex reasoning and wondering if he's truly good or evil and if he should hate the people who've mistreated him, but he goes around killing people out of nothing more than revenge? I refuse to believe that at some point the monster did not question whether or not it was right to kill Frankenstein's best friend and then murder his wife on their wedding night. Oh and every other character is as deep as a puddle.

Fuck that god damn book.

>>41361669
I enjoyed The Scarlet Letter, read it a while ago though.

>>41362695

You only like Things Fall Apart because it is a book wanking about how awesome Africa was before the white man done fucked everything up and you are a black dude taught by years of liberal education to like this kind of shit. Things Fall Apart sucked.

>>41362140

> I had to watch Dead Poet's Society 3 times in my high school career. I wanted to die every time.

I had to watch Remember the Titans over 15 times.

It was good maybe the first 2, but after that? No.

>>41362483
We had to read this right after The Poisonwood Bible so we would have contrasting views on missionary work in Africa. After The Poisonwood Bible, Things Fall Apart was God Tier.

>>41362470

One reason I loved my one high school teacher. Let us pick whatever books we wanted to read.

Ended up wanting to have a little fun and chose 'Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way.' After finishing it I wrote an oddly compelling paper on the use of satire as an engaging look behind the scenes of Hollywood.

And, strangely enough, I now work as a screenwriter encountering a lot of the dumb stuff Campbell mentioned in the book =P

>>41362791

I hope you mean FUCK YES THIS BOOK IS AWESOME. Because you do realize you're posting in a thread about the WORST books you've read, right?

Wuthering Heights
I felt like a had a bleeding vagina whenever I picked it up

Go to Borders or Barnes and Nobles or any bookstore and look at the Dean Koontz books.

Pick up one and read the first paragraph. Do the same thing for the next 20. You will laugh so hard.

>>41362006
god damn fuck that book.

ITS A 600 PAGE BOOK ABOUT AN ARCHITECT. EXCEPT ITS ALSO SOME CRAZY BITCHES THEORIES ABOUT HUMAN CIVILIZATION. AND NONE OF THE CHARACTERS DO ANYTHING LOGICAL, EXCEPT FOR THE ONES CONSIDERED "EVIL" No seriously, fuck Ayn Rand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kite_Runner

AWESOME BOOKS YOU LOVED TO READ:
REDWALL
ARTEMIS FOWL
THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH OH FUCK YES THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH

YOU FUCKERS DOWNLOAD AN EBOOK OF THAT SHIT RIGHT NOW OR KING AZAZ AND THE MATHEMAGICIAN WILL FUCK YOUR SHIT UP

The books High School english classes made you read were nearly always bullshit. They are decided based purely on the discussion of humanity's flaws.

If you have a book that:
1. Uses rape as a plot device
2. Is about people hating/killing each other for having different coloured skin
3. Is about the futility of war

Pack that shit up son, because the nearest High School is going to order 200 copies for next year's curriculum. You'll probably even get to talk at the school about how you were an average student and didn't even pass English but discovered that dipshit publishers will buy your crap if you make it about taboo/evil topics.

Only good books I ever read in High School were 1984 and The Kite Runner.

>>41362695

To be honest I hated that book, less because of the actual content, which was actually pretty damn good, but having to analyse it made me rage, THE POINT OF THE BOOK WAS FUCKING OBVIOUS!!

Enders Game was shit.

And at any moment I expected a prepubescent gay orgy to start.

>>41362695
unfortunate events were bullshit as well don't get me started

HA HA I'M LEMONY SNICKET AND YOU IDIOTS WILL BUY THE NEXT BOOK

but "things fall apart" was far from amazing you clown

>>41362787
After finishing that series I was just like

OK


OK....WHAT THE FUCK DID I WASTE ALL MY TIME READING WHERE'S THE HIDDEN MEANING FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

>>41362791
Fuck year, sequel wasn't as good though.

>>41362848
Sorry, I got a huge hard-on while thinking about Catch-22. Brain wasn't working right, I didn't read the thread. Sorry.

FUCKING GOOD BOOK EH? Seriously.

The story begins with this black man named Bigger attempting to get a job as a Chaufer to a white family in Chicago. He goes to the job and is told to drive the family's daughter to College. the daughter tells him to take her to meet her friend who's a communist. After a lot of drinking, Bigger takes her back to her room and all of a sudden starts to rape her. The mother (who's blind) walks in, and bigger tries to quiet the girl by putting a pillow over her head. He accidentally kills her so he throws her body into the furnace. He also kills the maid at one point, is then thrown into jail, and during the trial is called an ape due to the accusation of rape. At the end, he feels justified to the actions he did because it felt that it gave him identity even if he's being sentenced to death.
Seriously, what the fuck?

>>41362579

OH HEY THERE'S SOME NIGGERS OOPS ONE OF THEM KILLED THEMSELVES MIND IF I MASTURBATE IN A ROOM FULL OF BEEEEEEEEES?

>>41362865

>The Kite Runner
>good

Your opinion is invalid.

>>41362826

FFFFFFFFFFF
That same thing happened to me with that movie, except WE NEVER FINISHED IT, just watched the first hour or so ON SO MANY OCCASIONS

>>41362855
God damn it did the whole fucking mary sue thing with Roark too. 'HIS FLAW IS HE'S UGLY OOOOH' well it doesn't seem to impair his relationship with Dominique, everything he fucking does makes diamonds rain from the sky and he BLEW UP FREE HOUSING FOR PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY MADE MINOR FUCKING COSMETIC CHANGES

Vanity Fair

Victorian-era slice of life story about youngish british women trying to find husbands by going to balls and getting advice from their parents. I liked how the characters always called the French animals who were descended from Lucifer. That was funny.

>>41362483


You best be trolling, nigger. This book was fuck-awesome. Learn to literature

As of yet, I've yet to find a book I hate, but that's because I can be kind of a reviewfag. I'll have to say Heart of Darkness or The Man in the High Castle by PKD. Just couldn't get into that shit.

>>41362857
hey now

kite runner wasn't so bad

until the kid shot a ball bearing into a guys eyeball with a slingshot, i literally put it down and fucking walked off, that was fucking retarded and it got worse from there

>>41361440

DON'T EVEN JOKE NIGGER

The Chocolate War. It's about how some faggot kids in some Skull and Bones shit decide to sell chocolate for NO FUCKING REASON and then there's literally three parts of the book where a bunch of middle school boys discuss jacking off. In the end the hero gets pummeled for not selling chocolate and no one gives a fuck.

>>41361440
It's sad because it's true

>>41362865
Agreeing with this.

This is one I had to read in High School and I still hate it. In general I dislike every single narrow minded ignorant book/author that's entire purpose is always "The future I dread is a future where people care about/like things I don't, since I am such an intelligent and wonderful person"

Nothing embodied this more than Brave New World

>>41361316
That's my favorite book, along with The Great Gatsby, and The Picture of Dorian Gray.

I could/can relate with Holden. Every boy goes through that "fuck everyone" phase.

>>41362661
Fuck you, I fucking loved this book. Actually picked it up and read it on my own. How could you not love the compulsively lying Ruth?

>>41362766
Listen to this man, you really have to submerse yourself in literature to truly appreciate it. It's called willing suspense of disbelief gentlemen, learn to use it.

>>41362948
WAT

I know a surefire way to get greentext and reaction images.

This book is a personal all-time favorite of mine.

>>41362865
>1984
I wish I had read that in school. That and A Clockwork Orange. Those books changed my life, could have used them earlier.

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

seriously

fuck this book

>>41362865
I thought 1984 was completely horrible, but it's been over a decade since I read it, so I can't remember enough about it to substantiate my opinion.

>>41363047

Referencing you to >>41361314

>>41363062

Sorry bro, Huxley was right, just look at what you and everyone else on /v/ is doing with their time.

>>41363027
Oh Okonkwo, you were such a fucking boss, but you got fucked over in the end.

>Reading Bram Stoker's Dracula in class
>Twilightfags/gothfags/etc constantly bitching and whining about how Dracula isn't like the vampires in their shit.

>>41362849
Really? I found the characters somewhat compelling, though the narrative was half-assed.

>>41362942
And fuck yeah. Literally the only book I've ever chuckled out loud while reading. In fact, quite frequently, I had to stop reading to catch my breath.

>>41362849

I hope you are trolling. I really do. Wuthering Heights had some of the best written characters I have ever read. Their interactions and the flaws of the characters are so well written it's amazing.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Jesus cunting Christ that was the most boring shit I have ever read.

>Book thread
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I cannot barely trust in your taste in video games, why should I trust your literary taste /v/?

Just goes to prove /v/ will go to any length not to talk about videogames.

>>41363126
Worst ending ever, holy shit.

>>41361974
HEY FUCK YOU MAN I LOVED THAT BOOK YOU FUCKFACED NIGGER I HOPE YOU GET AIDS AND DIE ASSHOLE.

ALSO, YO MOMMA IS SO FAT SHE HAS ENOUGH CHINS TO MAKE AN ASIAN FAMILY.

>>41362878
Read "Their Eyes Were Watching God", then come talk to me.

>>41362820
Not really. Part of the problem was Okonkwo being such a goddamn blowhard trying to preserve his MANLY image and his strength that once he saw everything slipping away from him he just felt powerless. The man needed a damn hug.

>>41362872
Oh yeah, the extra work can really ruin your enjoyment of it. Unlike other assigned readings, this one wasn't painfully boring. The only other assigned reading that I recall actually enjoying was Wuthering Heights.