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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2017-05-16 07:47 pm

[ SECRET POST #3786 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3786 ⌋

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Re: What's the worst book you've ever read?

(Anonymous) 2017-05-17 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
I really disliked Moby Dick. It was agonizingly dry, even for nineteenth century classic lit, and there wasn't nearly enough plot to be stretched over all those pages. It felt like the bare bones of a tolerably interesting short story, buried in several hundred interminable pages of bland, lumpy padding, and mashed inelegantly together with a nineteenth century technical manual on whaling.

I recently quit reading if on a winter's night a traveler two thirds of the way through. It was basically a bunch of annoying, pretentious gimmicks all mashed together, and it wasn't getting better. If ever there has been a novel to make me say "Is there anything here that isn't a literary gimmick?" it would be this one.