this wont be popular, but moby dick and the catcher in the rye are two of the most hated books ive read.
kev---im a cooper fan, and the last of mohicans is one of my favorite movies---as a book though, i enjoyed the pathfinder a little better.
this wont be popular, but moby dick and the catcher in the rye are two of the most hated books ive read.
kev---im a cooper fan, and the last of mohicans is one of my favorite movies---as a book though, i enjoyed the pathfinder a little better.
Last edited by bounty; 04-16-2018 at 08:23 PM.
Mohicans not at all. Twain's scathing critiques of Cooper should be more famous.
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
My Personal Top 10, no order:
Blood Meridian
Slaughterhouse-Five
Moby Dick
Catch 22
Ironweed
Pudd'nhead Wilson (a few glaring flaws but I enjoyed it decisively more than Huck)
The Old Man & the Sea
The Great Gatsby
The Border Trilogy (McCarthy...may be cheating to use the whole trilogy)
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (also maybe cheating - it's more non-fiction than fiction - but I think it belongs; I wouldn't count, say On the Campaign Trail '72)
Among stuff I haven't read that could easily alter the list, I plan to re-read Beloved and, perhaps a bit later, Grapes of Wrath, for the first times in almost 20 years in the next year or two. I'm interested to see if they make the list once I can connect with them as an adult.