Show Library: Pseudointellectual Books That, in Fact, Suck

[Grifter]

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And Fight Club was a great book. Chuck Pahlunik (sp?) is a very talented and unconventional writer.

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While I like Fight Club well enough, after reading all of Chuck's stuff I realized how very conventional he is, just his own conventions. Each book seems to be an echo of the previous ones, and his style has become really predictable. I don't mean to harp on the guy, but he kinda had one or two really good ideas and made them into like 6 novels.

[gumpzilla]

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I think a lot of people are confusing this thread with "Literary classics that I don't like"

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Do you have other methods for determining what sucks? Any book successful enough to belong in this thread is presumably at least somewhat esteemed.

[Boris]

Scrub - It's on biatch!

[Cockney Wankah]

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Wow, there are some lousy picks in here.

However, the Great Gatsby is a complete load of old bollocks.

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I have no idea what you are talking about. Speak English plz.


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Do wot, mah sun? Dat is da Queen's Inglish, not dat Colonial rabbit yew beans quack. Show sum fahkin dignity if yew cherish yer luvspuds or Ah'll be inclined to give yew a nut cutlet.

Nuff Respect.

[GovmentCheese]

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I promote David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" as my own candidate for overrated.

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I disagree... I guess I don't see it as an 'intellectual' book - I just thought it was a joy to read, but I know plenty of people who can't stand the way he writes... I can't fault you - with the wild tangents in the footnotes - he really should use hypertext.

..I mentioned Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49 because I read it after reading DFW... people were saying it was in the same postmodern vein, but I found the writing style to be kludgy (for postmodern)... where it seemed propped up by the pseudointelligent stuff he wrote in there - which I found annoying.

[mlagoo]

i stopped reading this thread halfway through because it suffers the same problem that all of the threads like this suffer

people just throw out names of big name authors/novels they didnt enjoy without any justification. shakespeare! thoreau! crime and punishment! who needs reasoning when its so DELICIOUSLY CONTROVERSIAL!?

[PITTM]

after reading half of an ayn rand book and seeing people i strongly dislike reading them it is pretty easy to just say that people who read ayn rand books can suck it. she is just a bad writer, i think her books are EXACTLY what this thread is about. she is trying so hard to write an intellectual book for pseudo intellectuals that she just writes a terrible piece of crap. bummer.

rj

[challenger84]

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I think the whole point is to mock pretension, but I've talked to a number of people who find the Pynchons and DFWs and Eggerses absolutely unbearable.

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i agree, espically with eggers, his books always make me think from reading about them...this will be the one i like...then i read half of it and hate it...not because he sucks tho


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I found it intolerable to read.

i absoluetly hated this book but i finished it cause so many people like it...i think it was the worst book i have ever read

i loved gatsby....but it is pale in comparision to beautiful and the damned, which is a very balla book about living do do very little but be lazy.

i also thought catcher in the rye was way overratted

the best writen book i think i have read is potriat of dorian gray,

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I'm guessing you don't like most books over 100 pages?

[gumpzilla]

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who needs reasoning when its so DELICIOUSLY CONTROVERSIAL!?

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i stopped reading

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It shows, buddy. It shows.

[mlagoo]

wow thats like suuuuuuuper nitty