50 Famous ‘Literary Masterpieces’ That Actually Suck

13. Fahrenheit 451 I felt like the whole book was some sort of reddit edgy meme. Everyone circlejerking about how good it was but felt like a big in-joke about how “we read books, not like those brainwashed tools”. (spoilers) when the main character goes off the wall and murders his boss and starts his run from the law I thought the book was just starting to go somewhere until it abruptly ended.

The novel I purchased has tonnes of essays and opinion pieces printed after the story so when the book just…ended I thought I had another 100 pages to go and was confused.

14. House of Leaves. I tried to get into it, I really did, but the constant flipping back to the like 10 indexes and holding the book sideways and all that other nonsense had me like “reading this book is way too much work to be worth it; the protagonist isn’t compelling enough to make me want to do that work.”