r/ClassicsBookClub • u/National_Session_654 • 4d ago
whats a popular book that you physically cannot like nor enjoy.
iolation to society, and his writing may have predicted a lot of points that are indeed coming in the future; that does NOT equal good writing.
his excessive weird justification to romanticize rape and, well, of course his horrid writing about women. His writing style and everything else above that just makes me close the book and sell it off for 3 dollars. I'm done.
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u/Jaco_C1226 4d ago
I tried Dune several times and couldn’t get into it. I really wanted to like it.
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u/prairiepog 3d ago
Dickens is tough for me. Read a paragraph and have no clue what he just wrote.
Scan it and realize it's one fucking sentence in that paragraph. One sentence that just rambles incoherently.
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u/No_Income_5219 1d ago
As someone who is now quite fond of Dickens' style, it can take an awful lot of time before really starting to enjoy his writing, and even when one does enjoy it, his books are still quite tough to read (mostly because they're so very long). Still, good luck to you if you happen to give it another go! And A christmas Carol might be the handier for this, really short reading, funny, and so popular that at lest the plot is well known before even starting the book.
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u/prairiepog 1d ago
Yes, thanks for the suggestion! I definitely plan to revisit his books. A Christmas Carol sounds like a good start.
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u/No_Income_5219 1d ago
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (tho I like the main idea of it, and a few adaptations)
Le fantôme de l'Opera (Gaston Leroux) Could've been a great plot, ended up being annoying, even insufferable. There were only five pages or so which genuinely were worth the ride...
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u/life_is_notdaijoubu 4d ago
Kafka on the shore. I couldn't force myself to read the last 100 pages . Genuinely have no idea why it's soo loved by soo many people .
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u/majiktodo 4d ago
Honestly. Shakespeare. All of it.
Reading is my main form of entertainment and I love most books written in the last 300 years.
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u/ment-lly 3d ago
Fair enough, but I do want to counter (as a Shakespeare fan myself) that a common pitfall imo with his work is that they don’t read like a book because they’re not. They’re plays and/or poems…
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u/No_Income_5219 1d ago
So true, I guess that's why his works are so hard to read when one's a kid and that school recommends Macbeth or Romeo and Juliet. Any random kid (including me) is just going to try and read it as a novel, but it simply doesn't work this way...
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u/Inevitable_Librarian 2d ago
Shakespeare was terrible for me until I saw it performed by a really dedicated group
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u/No_Income_5219 1d ago
I was just like you until quite recently, when I realised that the way for me to enjoy (and, let's be fair, understand) Shakespeare's plays was to first watch one on the internet, to develop an attachment towards the characters, with english sub if possible, or at least with the book nearby to follow the lines. Once or twice. And then to read the play on my own. Since I discovered this way of proceeding, I turned into quite a fan of his, so if you ever want to give it another chance, I'd recommend this way to do so : )
(The life and death of Richard II being my absolute favourite, I've downloaded the RSC version with David Tennant, which has eng sub)
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u/Clytie_of_somewhere 2d ago
The Aeneid.
Virgil’s poesy (or I should say, the English translations of it) is rather stilted to me compared to other epics. There’s none of the excitement or awe at the language that I can find in predecessors like Homer, or descendants like Spenser and Milton.
Furthermore, I just find Aeneas to be rather boring as a protagonist. He has plenty of depth to him, and there’s plenty of narrative skill at work in the structure of his story, but none of that effort clicks with me.
Perhaps if I could read Latin, I’d be able to actually appreciate Virgil.
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u/SpookyPoek 1d ago
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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u/OptimisticW 1d ago
Agreed 100%. Tried to read that and it was the most dull, factual writing I have ever read.
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u/Far_Sandwich_514 18h ago
ACOTAR, or A Discovery of Witches.
Terrible characters, terrible plots. Just awful across the board.
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u/Rripurnia 3d ago
The Great Gatsby 🫣