Classics I Hated

Discover the classic books that didn't live up to the hype! From overrated literature to timeless disappointments, explore the classics I hated—and why they fell short.

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Moby-Dick

by Herman Melville

Herman Melville’s masterpiece of obsession and the untamed sea, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history—featuring an introduction by Andrew Delbanco and …
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A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

Donation trade.
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Ulysses

by James Joyce

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A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the …
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Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

A timeless, terrifying tale of one man’s obsession to create life—and the monster that became his legacy. “If ever a book needed to be placed …
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Naked Lunch

by William S. Burroughs

Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence …
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Ethan Frome

 

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

During the seventeenth century in Boston, a woman guilty of adultery is forced to wear an A as a visible sign of her sin.