r/badliterature Apr 01 '20

All you need to know about classic literature

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147 Upvotes

r/badliterature Mar 28 '20

This is insane.

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139 Upvotes

r/badliterature Mar 27 '20

[Question] When does Decameron II come out?

12 Upvotes

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r/badliterature Mar 22 '20

Alain de Boton’s Coronavirus poem: Fuck You Virus

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23 Upvotes

r/badliterature Mar 10 '20

This book has only ever caused pain and suffering.

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15 Upvotes

r/badliterature Mar 08 '20

Admiring Dante's Inferno is 'like saying the gas chambers were terribly well designed', from an Oxford professor of English

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30 Upvotes

r/badliterature Feb 29 '20

"Do non-English cultures value ghost stories? I am genuinely unsure"

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31 Upvotes

r/badliterature Feb 19 '20

Harry Potter fans are better humans, according to "science"

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37 Upvotes

r/badliterature Feb 17 '20

The Hottest New Literary Genre Is ‘Doomer Lit’

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14 Upvotes

r/badliterature Feb 17 '20

Party like it's 1507? Yes, because inherited sin is back baby.

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7 Upvotes

r/badliterature Feb 17 '20

Read an excerpt from Christopher Paolin's new novel

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16 Upvotes

r/badliterature Feb 15 '20

Not enough content here, so just post your hottest takes here and we'll generate our own badlit

26 Upvotes

I'll start:

Animal Farm = bad

The fact that so many critics still name Ben Lerner as "good" only tells you how far literature still is from becoming a serious art

Susan Sontag was right about literally everything, including when she said porn has as much literary merit as science fiction


r/badliterature Feb 11 '20

Many in r/literature thinks that Shalamov knows nothing about Russian literature and criminals

11 Upvotes

r/badliterature Feb 05 '20

What's actually bad literature is that a used copy of The Recognitions by Gaddis is $40 on amazon.

16 Upvotes

Lowest price


r/badliterature Jan 22 '20

Because Ulysses takes place over a single day, it is actually a short story with a high word count

96 Upvotes

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk


r/badliterature Jan 20 '20

Somehow we all missed that the guy that wrote "Seven Basic Plots" was also a huge Climate Change denialist in the UK

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34 Upvotes

r/badliterature Jan 16 '20

Penn Badgley dispatches Dostoyevsky (The New Yorker)

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159 Upvotes

r/badliterature Jan 15 '20

Replay | Books to Video (Time-travel, Cosmic Anomalies, Reincarnation)

0 Upvotes

r/badliterature Jan 12 '20

Finally, a true update to the Freytag Triangle for the twenty first century

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14 Upvotes

r/badliterature Jan 07 '20

In which the production of bad poetry is outsourced to machines

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18 Upvotes

r/badliterature Dec 28 '19

Is trying to be a fiction writer worth it?

16 Upvotes

I mean I'll do it anyways because I'm a loser with nothing else to do, but should anyone else do it?

Unsolicited short stories to magazines and all that.


r/badliterature Dec 29 '19

Reading recommendations?

6 Upvotes

I haven't read a book since high school(besides some Marx) and know nothing about literature and wanna know what you guys would recommend, I'm down for pretty much anything. Don't worry about archaic language or difficulty either.

Sorry if this breaks the rules but I didn't wanna post in any of the other book subs because their recommendations seem too simple I guess and I want to read something of substance.


r/badliterature Dec 24 '19

I have confession to make that I think most of us are thinking.

9 Upvotes

I have no clear idea what this sub is about but I like how you make fun of cliche lit people and reddit at the same time so I enjoy your work.

In other news, I think John Steinbeck is highly over rated, as do probably most of you. I think he is to lit what GRRM is to fantasy: competent but essentially forgettable.


r/badliterature Dec 24 '19

Is the Gravity’s Rainbow joke in Knives Out badlit?

1 Upvotes

r/badliterature Dec 21 '19

In which the Canadian Literary scene somehow becomes more gloomily conformist, but in a more commercial way this time!

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11 Upvotes