jillelvish's "Classic Books I Hate and Don't Care Who Knows It"

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Some I could barely get through. Some I didn’t make it through. All of them. I just deplore. Kid uses up tree until it’s a stump. The end.

  1. 1.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  2. 3.
    The Dollmaker
    by Harriette Arnow

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  3. 4.
    Moby Dick (Vintage Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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  4. 5.
    The Alchemist
    by Paulo Coelho

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  5. 6.
    Life of Pi
    by Yann Martel

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  6. 7.
    Love in the Time of Cholera

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  7. 8.
    Forrest Gump
    by Winston Groom

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  8. 9.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph Conrad

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  9. 10.
    Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintainance
    by Robert M. Pirsig

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  10. 11.
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    The Giving Tree
    by Shel Silverstein

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  11. 12.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
    by Milan Kundera

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  12. 13.
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    The Bridge of San Louis Rey
    by Thornton Wilder

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Untitled — 51 weeks ago

I was far less wise - I was singlemindedly unwise, in fact - when it came to Hemingway. I tried everything—A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, some of the short stories… I hated all of it.