In Episode 24 Gen and Jette talk about the books we hated.
You can’t love every book you read. We don’t usually spend much time talking about the books we didn’t like, because we’d rather talk about the books we loved. We want to recommend books. That’s the whole point of the podcast! But every once in a while you read a book that you absolutely loathe. That you hate so much, it actually makes you a little bit angry.
Honestly, it’s kind of fun to rip apart the books we hated. And who can’t relate? It was time to give a little air time to the books we’d rather forget. (It turns out we actually do forget quite a few of them.) We also talk about what it was about those books that we hated and why we avoid certain genres and sub-genres.
Show Notes
It’s always going to be a #sorrynotsorry from us about not loving Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones.
A Bildungsroman is a novel dealing with a character’s formative years or spiritual education.
A Visit From the Goon Squad actually came out in 2010, not 2004. (What is time?)
Art books from shows are called Exhibition Catalogues. We should have known this, having working at a major art institution for a combined 13 years between us. One day we’ll remember this.
Books Mentioned
Don’t worry! We didn’t hate all of these. It’s impossible to talk about books you hate without also talking about books you love.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Molloy by Samuel Beckett
Faust by Goethe
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Macbeth by Shakespeare
Manhattan Beach and A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Damned and Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
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