Book (only real Litrature, no airport pulp) that you hated the most.

[Boylermaker]

I have to agree with you on this one...it was dreadful.

[Abednego]

That's the Book of Revelation .... not Revelations

[Michael Davis]

I disagree. I tend to dislike really boring American crap and enjoy the English variety.

-Michael

[Michael Davis]

I like it when my favorite Old School novel shows up on someone's list.

-Michael

[Eclypse]

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Fahrenheit 451

Total tripe. I don't understand why anyone likes this book... especially when you could read Brave New World or 1984 instead.


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You have to be careful with Fahrenheit 451--many issues were heavily abridged and not indicated as such. These copies are way inferior.

I did like Nineteen Eighty-Four better though (I think everyone should read it--and do so before the next presidential election).

Brave New World was not one of my favorites.

[Eclypse]

ULYSSES by James Joyce

I defy ANYONE to read this book without going, "what the..." at least 20 times. It's unreadable.

How was this voted the greatest fiction work of the 20th century?

[ChipWrecked]

The Once and Future King.

(Just kidding)

Can someone define the line between literature and pulp. Kipling was considered pulp in his day. Shakespeare's plays were performed for the rednecks of his day.

I enjoy science fiction (today's pulp). As time goes on, however, some if it becomes literature, i.e. Farenheit 451.

I'll wager Arthur C. Clarke's work will be considered literature in the future. How about Asimov's Foundation Trilogy? Pulp?

Oh, yeah. My answer is Moby Dick.

[Straussman]

Though I'd add in my two bits. [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] With the exception of the books in Archangel71857's and Rushmore's posts, plus the Age of Innnocence and Cosmopolic (sp?), none of which I have read, the ONLY book listed here that I didn't enjoy was Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (I basically hated Rand after reading this book, having decided she was evil).

So I guess it's all a matter of taste. (But this here former English major thinks that if you didn't enjoy Moby Dick, there's something seriously wrong with y'all. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img])

[superleeds]

Heart of Darkness

Just couldn't get into it, only made twenty or so pages

[nicky g]

No no. That's a great book.