50 Famous ‘Literary Masterpieces’ That Actually Suck

32. The Old Man and the Sea. Maybe I was too young to understand the actual point of the book but as far as everything I’ve read so far…I really didn’t care for it. I might read it again at some point to see if I can distinguish anything different I might have missed.

33. I feel like a lot of people hate the great Gatsby because it was drilled into our heads in high school. Like we get it, every other word is a reference to the American dream, and the remaining are about materialism or some crap.