Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die discussion

I really hated Watt by Samuel Beckett. It was more of an experiment than a novel and was filled with redundant and repetitive claptrap and garbage with literally page upon page of OCD-like repetition of phrases and logic-like equations. Large segments of this book were like singing 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall all the way through. This was a truly awful book that was removed for the 2008 list. I also did not like Foe by Coetzee, Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth, Death in Venice by Mann, and The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald.

I hated the Great Gatsby. This is the first place ever where I have heard other people say they didn't like that book.

I also could not stand Tropic of Cancer, and I could have done without The Left-Handed Woman, The Yellow Wallpaper, and The Breast.