War & Peace. Shit's worse than Middlemarch.

The Idiot

>>25117479
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>>25117491
Go back to anime and video games.

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was worth it anyway

>>25117545
Why would I read boring realism shit when I could read Pinecone or Burroughs?

Moby Dick
The Lord of the Rings

Everything by Arthur Rimbaud and Henry James.

And of course, virtually all written by women during the last fifty years.

>>25117491
The Idiot is pretty fun tho

I don't love Dostoyevsky, but it's not boring

Every author mentioned or referenced itt has been a genius, with the exception of Tolkien.

>>25118451
Being a "genius" doesn't necessarily mean being a good writer, You pretentious faggot.

>>25118455
If someone is talking about a writer, and he calls this writer a genius, then he is talking about his writing you obdurate imbecile.

>>25118472
I always preferred the adjective “intransigent” over obdurate, it looks and sounds cooler. NTA btw

>>25118448
>Rimbaud
>boring
How the fuck?

>>25118612
Yes, the guy is the typical overrated poet, more idolized for his personal life than for his writing.
And what about his letters? They are part of his complete works. And these are some of the worst letters I've ever read from any writer.

>>25118472
You keep proving that you're nothing more than a little boy and probably autistic, but not the intelligent type.

>>25118618
Did you read him in English? He's fantastic in a Polish translation, but I wasn't really moved by the English one I read.
If you actually read him in French, I yield.

if a book has been boring for more than ten pages, why would you keep reading?

>>25117548
Go back now.

>>25118612
because he's a fat hormonal manchild addicted to podcasts and porn

I forgot to include Lord Dunsany and Jorge de Lima. They are both terrible too, not only the works themselves, but their influence too.

>>25118634
I read his texts in French and in Latin (the poems he wrote in his youth). I received his complete works as a gift, and unfortunately I didn’t like them, even though it’s a beautiful edition.

>>25118637
In general, the people who DNF books are either women or menchildren; in my entire life, I’ve only abandoned five books.

A book can always improve. For example, the best book I read in 2025 started in a way I didn’t like. After finishing it, it became clear that this “flaw” was an important part of the book.

Of course, if you really think it's going to be a waste of time, go ahead. But try reading it again a few years later.

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>>25118641
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In every thread you just try to act like an oldfag, when you're obviously a newfag, or you just post the laziest and most aggressively feminine possible.

>>25118661
Kek bodied that freak

>>25118659
it is a sin to waste time on bad art. but you seem like someone who tallies the books they've read like a body count

>>25118612
He's probably the type of guy that reads poetry like prose. Too many of those retards shoot their mouth off about great poets being overrated. He later claims that Rimbaud is more famous for his life than his poetry, which is just astoundingly ignorant.

>>25118704
Those who generally abandon books right at the beginning are the ones who love to talk about how many books they've read.
Your fallacy is very poorly constructed, kid.

>>25118705
you're the type of gaycel who is constantly rejected

>>25118661
Strange, you’re talking about me, yet, neither of those posts were written by me. What can I say? I’m rather terse in my writing!

>>25118718
>at the beginning
"if a book has been boring for more than ten pages" does not imply that those ten pages are at the beginning of the book. you are a bot

>>25118735
I accept your admission and withdrawal. Now you can go back to your slopbook.

>>25118722
Did he touch a nerve perhaps? I for one can’t understand how you’d read A Season in Hell and not be entranced by every word, and how, it just a teenager he was able to give the reader such a surreal experience

>>25118743
I’m not him, but it seems to me that he struck a nerve, since a simple ragebait—and also a comment made by someone else earlier—made you personally upset and even whiny.

And you must really be a woman or gay if you don’t want to admit that a good part of Rimbaud’s fame is derived from his life.

>>25118740
have you ever asked yourself why you pathologically have to finish even the most unpleasant of projects?

>>25118740
He's probably one of those Millennial faggots who think Stephen King is a genius and mostly reads fantasy, lmao.

>>25118751
Not sure why you’d think I’m upset, I’m just saying I find it strange that someone would find Rimbaud boring. And the anon I replied to wasn’t exactly making any valid points, he just attacked the guy giving his own opinion on the matter. It’s clear as day that he “touched a nerve”

>>25118448
True. Henry was an arrogant and envious man.
Rimbaud is the most overrated French poet, and that alone says enough.

>>25118770
You really have something feminine about you.

>>25118448
Henry James is the most obvious case of an inferiority complex mixed with a midwit personality in the 19th century.
One of the worst, yet most arrogant, writers I've ever read.

The Catcher in the Rye
The Old Man and the Sea

>>25119209
>The Old Man and the Sea
He wrote this book with the intention of it being bad on purpose to prove a point. And he succeeded.

>>25119213
>He wrote this book with the intention of it being bad on purpose to prove a point
What point, exactly? The main thing I took away from it is that I should never become a fisherman.

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Hatchet. It was the one English class book that I just decided to drop and take the F because I just couldn't bear to read it anymore.

>>25119214
He won a Nobel Prize and showed that supposedly he could be considered great if he bothered to write appealing to critics.

arrogance is not a real criticism

The Book of Mormon. The Mark Twain quote about it being "chloroform in print" is pretty apt.

>>25119213
Did he really? I hated that book, and thought that whole Hemingway thing is just tedious rigamarole, so I never read anything else from him. What's his best work?

>>25119221
>i'd be considered a great runner too if i just ran faster
>all i'd have to do is make a bunch of money for people to call me rich
>people would say i'm a genius too if i just solved the Riemann hypothesis
what was his deal?

The new testament. It's just cluster b in print

>>25119591
his short stories

>>25117479
Dune

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>>25117479
>read classic novels for years
>decide to read one (1) history book and one (1) psychoanalysis book
>every single novel now bores me to death

>>25120464
Time to pick up poetry and short stories.

>>25117479
Ben "Yahztee" Croshaw's "Differently Morpheus". Its his one book I actually stopped reading halfway through.

>>25117479
Emma and Portrait of a lady, dropped them both about halfway

The sound and the fury. I was constantly thinking "surely all of this will culminate to some crazy event" and it was just some girl making her brother jealous by being the neighborhood bicycle or something and a retard throwing fits and their slaves thinking "wipipo be crazy."

>>25120545
>anon is shocked a book entitled The Sound and The Fury signifies nothing

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>>25120551
Well, I don't judge a book by the cover.

>>25120545
>"wipipo be crazy.
they do be crazy though

how does anyone survive Henry James

>>25117479
Anything by Victor Hugo desu

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>>25117479
The Road