# whats the worst "classic " book/author  you  read or tried to read

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-classic-book-author-you-read-or-tried-to-read/831440>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 24, 2019, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-classic-book-author-you-read-or-tried-to-read/831440 "2019-03-24T04:37:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 67

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-classic-book-author-you-read-or-tried-to-read/831440/67 "2019-03-24T23:55:44Z")

</div>

Many of mine have already been listed, such as Catch 22, Wuthering Heights, and Ulysses. One very recent example for me: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. The narrator does nothing but hitchhike across the country, meet with his friends, have drinks at bars, etc. In spite of it all, there was nothing remotely relatable about the characters, and I gave up after 40 pages.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-classic-book-author-you-read-or-tried-to-read/831440)._