Current Events > Women have revealed the red-flag books that guys should never own

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This is such a tryhard mix of books that have genuinely awful messages (Atlas Shrugged) and books that are just sub-par (Twilight, Da Vinci Code) and books that are classic but people have gotten sick of (Of Mice and Men, Catcher in the Rye)

Michael_Booth posted...
read: 6/22
own: 5/22

NashtheLion posted...
read: 3/15
own: 4/15

i dont have any of that, where the bitches at

Nukazie posted...

i dont have any of that, where the bitches at

maybe dont refer to women as bitches lol maybe your chances will go up

Strider102 posted...

*wipes forehead*

Phew, looks like my Goosebumps and Animorph collections are safe.

You. I like you :3

Got several from each series still on my bookshelves

COVxy posted...

I can understand people who haven't read Lolita thinking Lolita is a red flag.

As someone who has not read Lolita, why wouldn't it be a red flag if I did read it?

Michael_Booth posted...

Ulysses by James Joyce

This so hard. Ulysses is by far the most elitist, pretentious book ever made.

Meanwhile, Republicans are banning books because they have the audacity to suggest that slavery or the Holocaust existed

Some of these make sense because the list apparently was pulled from mumsnet so its very surface level nimby "these books were written by mean people so they are bad" energy. Others are very confusing. Why are they so upset about postmodernism? What's wrong with A Little Life? Who would walk into someone's house and see The Sun Also Rises and be upset somehow outside of like the world's most panic-prone lit student?

Southernfatman posted...

I have The Sun Also Rises because I had to read it for school. What was so bad about it again? I don't remember a thing besides sort of liking it. Oh, it's snobbish? ....ok. I have the first 5 HP books too from when I was a tween-teen. None are my favorites.

TSAR suffers from being a cock and bull story.

Umbreon posted...

As someone who has not read Lolita, why wouldn't it be a red flag if I did read it?

I mean, the main character is depicted as a depraved loon, and the "relationship" as terribly destructive.

The Wheelman1 posted...

Lolita I can definitely understand. The rest i don't get.

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It's like that scene from Community. "I can excuse racism but I draw the line at animal cruelty!" "You can excuse racism?"

I've read 10 of those. I own Ulysses and A Little Life, but I haven't read A Little Life because it was just a random book given to me by a friend. Pretty insecure list honestly. Some books kinda make sense, but other books like Lolita are too complex apparently. And I say this as someone who hates Lolita.

DarkBuster22904 posted...

Only things I can think of would be:

1. The casual racism. Which, yeah, it's there.
2. Maybe they see what Lenny did to Cirley's wife as some sort of unwitting sexual assault? A reach, but I've seen bigger reaches from some crowds.
3. On the note of Lenny, his condition making him a threat/danger to everyone around him probably isn't looked on too fondly, these days.

4. Maybe they somehow think the ending was being glorified? The "right" move? Some people lack basic reading comprehension, so the implocations/messaging may be lost on them.

I dont think any of these reasons are particularly strong. But a lot of people have a "shoot first, ask questions later" mentality when it comes to art criticism, these days.

Ok that makes sense.

Who wants to bet whoever made this list has every season of Sex and the City on DVD?

Personally I think Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and Anthem are pretty interesting. Probably in part because those can at least be interpreted as more/something else than just Rand's idea of 'pure capitalism is utopia and everyone should just be selfish for the sake of being selfish'.

The whole message of Atlas Shrugged is just that and nothing but that, which is pretty ironic considering it has more pages than those other two books combined.

i find rand's prose really boring and lifeless even outside of her political beliefs, but those two are definitely better than atlas shrugged which is incredibly masturbatory

HylianFox posted...

books that are classic but people have gotten sick of (Of Mice and Men, Catcher in the Rye)

They're sick of them because they had to dissect them for a high school English teacher who hadn't actually read them since High School either.

Why does this board always get riled up whenever some random women on the internet say they don't want to date certain men? You say you don't want to date women that act like this but you seem pretty bothered that they don't want to date you.

Background_Guy posted...

Why does this board always get riled up whenever some random women on the internet say they don't want to date certain men? You say you don't want to date women that act like this but you seem pretty bothered that they don't want to date you.

i doubt anyone wants to actually date the women from the terf website dude, they're just making fun of how weird some of the choices are

Background_Guy posted...

Why does this board always get riled up whenever some random women on the internet say they don't want to date certain men? You say you don't want to date women that act like this but you seem pretty bothered that they don't want to date you.

where the riled people at

Michael_Booth posted...

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Hold the FUCK up and back the FUCK up.

That novel is a fucking classic.

Damn_Underscore posted...

I haven't read it in a long time but Holden Caulfield seems like an average teenager. Like the type who would think way too highly of himself on reddit or CE today.

Yeah but the book is incredibly well written. That's my point

lol reading

What the FUCK is wrong with Of Mice & Men? lol That one's baffling.

RedLuigi posted...

Why would Catcher in The Rye be there though?

One of the greatest books of all time imo

It's the quickest way to weed out a pseudo fan of literature if their reason for declaring it a bad book is "the main character is annoying". He's a heavily troubled 17 year old. It's similar to hating on taxi driver as a movie because Travis Bickle is a psycho. Main characters aren't necessarily meant to be the author's idea of a good person but some people think otherwise

She is trolling and seeking attention, the best thing to do is say you own most of these, but not the first book that was written by Hitler.

RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

She is trolling and seeking attention, the best thing to do is say you own most of these, but not the first book that was written by Hitler.

What if I don't own them. Do I still say I own them?

CyricZ posted...

What if I don't own them. Do I still say I own them?

Just to piss her off and make her meltdown yes, hell say you are proud of your collection.

I have physical copies of five or six of those (Ulysses, Lolita, Fight Club, Atlas Shrugged, Catcher in the Rye, and maybe Of Mice and Men) and one on Kindle (Infinite Jest).

I noticed they didn't list any hentai Mangas. Curious.

Topic is misleading. It's not owning the book but calling it your favorite which is the turn off apparently. Under that, I can definitely see why things like DaVinci Code and Harry Potter would be on there, especially for anyone who isn't a teenager. Don't quite get Of Mice and Men though still. I remember reading it in high school and don't recall anything particularly torrid about it or whatever.

RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

Just to piss her off and make her meltdown yes, hell say you are proud of your collection.

Like a woman I'm going out with? Why would I do that?

nice I can still read 120 days of sodom

I own the complete Harry Potter book set and a few of the movies.

Makeveli_lives posted...

not owning the book but calling it your favorite which is the turn off apparently. Under that, I can definitely see why things like DaVinci Code and Harry Potter would be on there, especially for anyone who isn't a teenager.

How hypocritical when you have women in their 30s who are obsessed with Harry Potter and Disney.

Why do people hate Catcher in the Rye so much? People take it way too seriously.

_____Cait posted...

Why do people hate Catcher in the Rye so much? People take it way too seriously.

People seem to think that the only way to appreciate the book is to agree with or project yourself onto the protagonist

I will say Atlas Shrugged is the most unpleasant book I have ever read

Terrible characters, terrible writing, terrible message.

Michael_Booth posted...

Harry Potter by JK Rowling

Women fucking LOVE Harry Potter though, why aren't men allowed to like it?

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_____Cait posted...

Why do people hate Catcher in the Rye so much? People take it way too seriously.

I'm defending this book a lot but I love it and see way too much hate for it online. It usually boils down to seeing Holden as pretentious or over opinionated, ignoring the reasons he's the way he is.

It has amazing dialogue which is no small thing (a lot of the characters in the book dislike Holden as much as some readers which is made clear in the hyper realistic conversations) and is also very ahead of it's time in the way it deals with the issue of mental health. In some ways it seems like it could have been written yesterday, but is in fact a 70 yr old book

DarkBuster22904 posted...

People seem to think that the only way to appreciate the book is to agree with or project yourself onto the protagonist

The whole point of the book is that the main character is an overly negative kid with clear mental problems, and for the most part, you arent supposed to relate to him, but perhaps pity him, or even hate him.

Guaranteed all those chicks are high maintenance.

Thats bait

_____Cait posted...

The whole point of the book is that the main character is an overly negative kid with clear mental problems, and for the most part, you arent supposed to relate to him, but perhaps pity him, or even hate him.

I know that. You know that. But a lot of people won't bother going that deep with it. They just stop at "he's an annoying incel, fuck this book. If you like it, you're probably an annoying incel, too."

MushroomMuncher posted...

Women fucking LOVE Harry Potter though, why aren't men allowed to like it?

My sister hated Harry Potter.

She hates the entire fantasy genre.