Supposed 10/10 "classic" book

>he couldn't even make it past Bishop Bienvenu
haha, pleb-filtered!

Because you're a moron

>not understanding that books that hold up over centuries are objectively good and if you don't like them it's because you have bad taste

based pedestrian taste

>objectively good
oof

I've been burned a lot on highly-recommended genre literature. For example, Brian Aldiss' sci fi trilogy about that planet with centuries-long ice ages. Absolutely interminable, he uses technical terms as adjectives where they don't make any sense, such as describing a hill as 'syncline' which means the way the geological layers are oriented, it tells you nothing about what the hill looks like, and will be meaningless to most readers anyway. Each book follows the formula of setting up some big event or mystery, then meandering along with banal characters and ending with the event barely making an appearance. For example, in the first book a huge migration of an alien species is heading towards a human settlement. At the very end of the book some of the characters see some smoke in the distance. The conflict is never described, the fallout from never appears, and the reaction of the characters isn't explored.

Also, the presence of humans on this alien planet is never addressed, aside from some vague reference to them being natives of the planet. So an alien species just happens to have evolved into a perfect copy of an unrelated species. It's not even a Star Wars deal where the humans exist in their own universe without Earth, there are literally humans from Earth who visit the planet, and none of them show the slightest curiosity about the question of why there are humans on an alien planet. I could go an about this shit for ages, like the alien humans being able to contact the dead, which is never explained, it's literally just magic.

no such thing as objectivity with art retard

Literature has objective standards

>it gets better after 100+ pages
DROOOOOOOPED

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Yeah that's the same thing shonentards say about longrunning shonen action series. In actuality these series usually start off bad or start off good and rarely change by much in quality. If a writer you recommend me is supposed to be so great, then why can't he write the first 100 pages to be good too?

oof

Maybe his writing evolved while writing the series.

why not?

That definitely happens to basically every mangaka. But that would be a gradual change. You couldn't point out a place where it "gets good" especially when you're talking about a novelist, rather than a mangaka.

>Name one
As I Lay Dying

>no such thing as objectivity with art
retard

tfw I loved this book

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This. Hot take? Picture of Dorian Gray was garbage. Debate me.

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It pleases me that somebody did

friggin moran

Scarlet Letter

t. closeted self-hating gay

1984 - hated it, hate Orwell, mediocre author

Moby Dick - loved it, greatest piece of literature from the USA

Ulysses - fantastic, pregnant with meaning, a literary maze

Farwell to Arms - mediocre, the army bits, romance meant nothing to me

Lolita - adored it, prose so good it makes you tearful

Pale Fire - cherish it, another great

Blood Meridian - great, second best thing to come out of the USA

The Trial - bored me, dropped it half way, began it again a year later from the top, bored me again to the finish

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>the army bits, romance meant nothing to me

This is the opinion of a lowbrow clodhopping dunce

t. "Fufck I can't stop drinking in liquid shit fuck"

You have to be 18 or older to post here

>Someone recommends me a 'classic'
>read synopsis
>look at author
>It's a fucking woman
AAAAAAAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA
HAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA

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Genji?

>reddit spacing
>likes nabokov
yup, into the cringe comp with you

The stranger

whom are you quoting?

>dude you don't get it it's too meta for you

It's almost as though there's an overwhelming consensus on what comprises great literature.

cringe

>le fucking A in the sky
okay Hawthorne, we got it the first fifty fucking times, stop it, not to mention the unholy mess that is the Custom House

Who wouldn't Faulkner is god tier

>Who wouldn't
I didn't

> what you don't like this?
> ever.. ever..everyone likes it.
> you're supposed to like it too

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> everything is just opinion
quit the onions

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quit the onions*

wtf onions? = S O Y?

>divine comedy
>wasn't even comedic in the slight
I'm a genius drowning in a cesspool of mediocrity

>both arguments are strawmen

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>being this new
t.bh desu, s.oy onions, s.oyboy basedboy, f.am senpai, et cetera
lurk before you post

Lurk more.

>thinking a comedy is necessarily funny
all it means is that there's a happy ending

The Great Gatsby

>boring

>boring

It's fucking boring.

Stick to reading for the plot.

You know, old sport, that's the point!

I've been underwhelmed by a lot of great literature I've read in the last few years, and sometimes I'm VERY disappointed. For example, I thought Fahrenheit 451 was garbage.

But I was blown away by The Picture of Dorian Gray. The only thing I didn't like was the ending. Why do you think it's garbage?

Agree with all of your assessments except for 1984.

And I couldn't agree more about The Trial--mediocre at best.

>johnny swift
>religiopolitical ramblings with the prose of a child describing something in 100 pages that could have been done in 10, but insists upon breaking up the narrative with period specific bitching
>thinks he's being tongue in cheek the whole time but comes across more as a pseud too wildly impressed by his own metaphors to realize he comes across as monumental bore with the satirical prowess of a used condom

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not him, but
>The only thing I didn't like was the ending.
I actually really liked the ending. personally, the part of the book I could do without was the chapter where it just went on and on about all the books he read a la Huysman's À Rebours

Nigga who told you anything by swift was above 8/10

OP said 10/10 books not 2/10 18th century presby babble

Based retard.

Based.

might as well return to r*ddit pal

good lord man

Based

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