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[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

A fan translation of the Redo of Healer light novel.

If you know you know.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Silas Marner has to be the most boring book I've ever attempted to read.

Didn't help that it was an assignment for school, but it also didn't help that it's literally one of the most boringly written books ever.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 months ago
[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

I haven't read a whole lot, but so far: Madame Bovary. We had to read it in high school, because it was culturally significant and because it caused a large amount of controversy when it came out due to its subject matter. When I was reading it though, it felt like I was reading a literary version of every TV soap opera ever. It was a slog to get through and I was bored and annoyed throughout.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

I tend to quit books if I don't find them very good. One I did finish that I fucking hated was The Girl on the Train. All of the characters were fucking insufferable.

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[-] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

I don't even remember the title, but it was written by Clive Cussler.

It was the dullest, most stereotypical adventure book with the bog standard protagonist and plot, with no interesting twist or unexpected event at all.

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago

There are books I started and did not finish that I do not remember. However, there a few that I finished but hated. The worst was:

Reverie - this was a lgbt book club thing in Libby. The protagonist was a whiny incapable teen that never redeemed themself. I kept thinking it would get better and it never did. Things resolved because magic, so poor/lazy writing.

[-] lloydxmas@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Anything by David Foster Wallace. Smug, preachy stream of consciousness garbage that is then annotated to oblivion by more stream of consciousness smug preachiness.

[-] Kvoth@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

The book of a thousand nights and a night. Went in knowing it was the original inspiration for Aladdin. Was not prepared for a litany if short stories about sex and racism

[-] Eww@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

The Rings Of Saturn

Was chosen by my Community College English professor and it was the most mind numbing thing I've ever had to read. It was translated from German, so there are multi-page, run-on sentences that haunt me till this day.

[-] thejml@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Profiles in Courage - John F. Kennedy

Should have stuck to being a president… maybe it’d land differently now, but in like 9th grade, it was a total slog.

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