The Fault in Our Stars.
1.The Lord of the Rings.
Those books go onforever.
Nicole Wolf
Im shocked they were able to boil it down to just 3 movies.
2.This will be unpopular, but Game of Thrones.
3.The Turn of the Screw.
Considered one of the most influential early horror novels.
Its an incredibly tough slog.
It was released in 1898 and reads like it was written in 1598.
5.Three times I have tried to tackle Infinite Jest, and three times I have been stymied.
I know people who love it.
I know I probably should love it?
Ill probably give it one more try in ten years and then set my copy on fire.
I used to have friends that went on and on about how great the book and play was.
I got through her childhood and college years before giving up finally and returning the book to the library.
I love MacBeth, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Merchant of Venice, etc.
But Romeo and Juliet is a pointless story about incredibly stupid people.
8.Heart of freaking Darkness.
For such a short novel, man it was a struggle to read.
9.The Awakening by Kate Chopin.
It just wasnt a style I particularly enjoyed.
11.On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
The Beat Generation can shove it up their arse.
12.It was the best of books; it was the worst of books.
13.Fahrenheit 451 I felt like the whole book was some sort of reddit edgy meme.
So much description of dust.
17.Of Mice and Men.
18.Atwoods The Handmaidens Tale.
Its currently my literary pet peeve as it could have been so much better.
The world building was fascinating and compelling.
A dystopian, neo-theocrastic American state born out of the environmentally related collapse of fertility rates.
But there were just way too many coincidences used to drive and fix the plot.
My teacher loved my paper.
In fact, its not that I didnt LIKE LotR, but I skipped over a lot.
I dont need 15 pages telling me nothing but how a forest looks, and Im an avid reader.
23.The Giver; fucking hate that book and I had to read it like 3 times for school.
I read it three times.
Each time thinking I was just in a bad state of mind the previous time.
Not design an A. I.
To fight this war.
Nah, we got a kid.
Special kid knows how to make friends.
Special kid knows strategy.
Ooo look special kid knows how to win a game.
Ooo special kid is special.
It is so dull.
I got to the end, annoyed Id wasted time on it.
Its just Socrates disagreeing with everyone.
A tale of perpetual suffering that eventually leads to some titty sucking and fruit-induced diarrhea wasnotup my alley.
Even now when I go back to read it its just… feels weird to me.
30.Lord of the Flies.
I wanted to gouge my eyes out it was just so boring.
Not a good book.
31.Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
This was gonna be mine.
It takes 3/4 of the book before anything even happens.
32.The Old Man and the Sea.
34.Wuthering Heightswith Heathcliffe, that little girl ghost, and all the whining about the moors.
Seemed like a muddled laudanum dream.
Hard to read, follow, and stay awake enduring.
Flaubert can take the sublime and blow it out his ass.
36.No matter how hard Ive tried, I could never finish Brave New World.
I know I SHOULD have enjoyed it, but I really just couldnt.
37.Tess of the DUrbervilles.
38.Lolita, which I personally thought was boring, and couldnt wait to finish it.
39.Ive tried to readCatch-22for years.
Its just too obtuse for me, I guess.
40.Catcher In The Rye.
It is the most pretentious, self important shite Ive ever read.
And I was once stuck on an island for 4 days with only Battlefield Earth to read.
41.As I Lay Dying.
My wife loves it and I HATED it.
42.The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho.
Some fuckwad who believes in dreams and fairytales wanders in the desert to find himself.
What was the point of that book or why people like it, Ill never understand.
I swear Thoreau made up 75% of those words.
45.I thought Atlas Shrugged was cartoonish.
The characters were so over the top it bordered on parody.
The Fountainhead was the better book in every respect.
I always felt the applaud it received was exaggerated.
It was being forced to read terrible books in high school that turned me off to reading.
I used to like to read but not anymore.
49.Great Expectations by Dickens pretty ironic that I had such high hopes….
50.No Ethan Frome?
I think I had to read this in 8th grade.
I probably loved reading more than most, but this was the book I remember most as a chore.
The whole thing was a boring slog to get through from the writing style to the melodramatic plot.
