Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 22:53     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
Anonymous wrote:In this PC world we live in, rife with euphemisms, you can't see the value in the concepts in 1984?? Doublespeak? 2minutes hate?


The 21st Century is more Brave New World than 1984.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 22:52     Subject: Re:s/o Literature you hate and why
Anonymous wrote:Grapes of Wrath is my favorite novel of all time. They "deserved" their fate? Really? Ok, I need a break from DCUM now.


Yup. They deserved the Dust Bowl. God hates Okies.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 22:50     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
Portrait of a Lady is awful.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 22:49     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
Haven't read the pages so not sure if this has been mentioned but Confederacy of Dunces was the biggest piece of shit I've ever read. I'm shocked I finished it. No wonder nobody would publish when the author was alive. I'm sure he was a great guy, but his book is fucking terrible.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 21:41     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
+2. Anything by Hemingway
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 21:36     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
Anonymous wrote:The Old Man and the Sea. It was so boring. Man sits in boat. And sits some more. Still sitting. Finally catches a huge fish and sharks eat it. Then end.


+1
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 21:25     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
Could not get into Les Misérables. Maybe it's because I have two young kids and just can't get uninterrupted time to read until bedtime, and then it's a chore to stay awake.

Things I hated in school:

Julius Caesar
Beowulf
Canterbury Tales
The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner

All tedious.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 21:20     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
Anonymous wrote:I despise James Joyce's Ulysses. It's a self-indulgent wankfest and a shitstain on human history. It's like the Emperor's New Clothes...everyone standing around declaring it brilliant and falling all over themselves to praise its profundity when it's really just a garbled crapfest.


yes. this. a thousand times this.

and speaking of wankery, Philip Roth. Can't stand him.

Also Dickens. So looong. So. Long.

But I think Orwell is fantastic and I read *everything* even The Road To Wigan Pier which is just all about fried suppers really. And I think the Old Man And The Sea *is* all that and a bag of chips.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 21:14     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Basically any poetry. I just get tired.


Me too. It is such a pointless genre. Bores me to tears.


said like a true scholar


Well, given your punctuation and previous post, back at you. But, as I'm an anonymous message board, I'm not trying to be a scholar. You, though, are successful at being an asshole. Congrats.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 21:14     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
Anonymous wrote:And Beowulf!!! That was painful.


Oh my god. Beowulf is the worst.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 21:13     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
Gone With The Wind

and the movie

Oh wait you said literature and not DCUM's favorite topic
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 21:09     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ulysses hater here. Also, I loathe The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper. Pages and pages and pages of describing. grass. describing. grass. Watching to grow is more engaging.

I'm sure, like a PP above, someone can claim that there is something profound about the human condition buried within it. Buried, buried, buried, smothered in thousand of unnecessary words about grass. Like the alleged value of Ulysses, buried underneath layers and layers of sloppy allusions and hundreds of pages of self-indulgent wankery.


Your use of the word "wankery" really takes away from your commentary, fyi.


I thought use of "wankery" made the post.


Agree!
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 20:45     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ulysses hater here. Also, I loathe The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper. Pages and pages and pages of describing. grass. describing. grass. Watching to grow is more engaging.

I'm sure, like a PP above, someone can claim that there is something profound about the human condition buried within it. Buried, buried, buried, smothered in thousand of unnecessary words about grass. Like the alleged value of Ulysses, buried underneath layers and layers of sloppy allusions and hundreds of pages of self-indulgent wankery.


Your use of the word "wankery" really takes away from your commentary, fyi.


Would it be better for you if the PP had said "intellectual masturbation" instead of "wankery"?


No. Equally childish.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 20:44     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
Great Expectations, anything written by Steinbeck (why did it take an entire chapter for a turtle to cross the road), Moby Dick, Heart of Darkness, basically anything ever assigned in high school English ... I ended up with a STEM career.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 20:43     Subject: Re:s/o Literature you hate and why
Anonymous wrote:Lord of the Rings was painful to read


This. Also The Hobbit. I couldn't even get through the first chapter.