The Worst Classics You Have Ever Read

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Originally Posted by EPluribusUnus

For Whom The Bell Tolls was a beautiful story made derisory by strange medieval language employed as an explanation for Spanish vernacular. I liked the book, but I couldn't bear to read the employment of "I obscenity in the milk." and the like which were supposedly transliteration from Spanish.

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Don't know if this has been mentioned, but this whole "obscenity in the milk" business was Hemingway's way of getting around the censors and making it painfully obvious that he was being censored.

Old English novels are rather clumsily boring to me. I choose to read Russian and French classics and they are far better

i thought the count of monte cristo was very dull in general. the characters had little depth either. and was he selling his books by the word?

dull? :confused: Did you read an abridged version?

He published his books in newspapers per chapter. That, yes.

I cn't recall any shallow characterisation, though.

This was probably mentioned before: Dan Browns Da Vinci Code

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Originally Posted by Lulim

This was probably mentioned before: Dan Browns Da Vinci Code

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Classic?

well, I know I was dwelling on the importance of every book, still to me the worst is Marcise de Sade. In Russian his name sounds magically and I was enchanted by it only I didn't expect that his writing proved to be such vulgar.

Les Misérables.

david copperfield oliver twist and heart of darkness though I do like conrad lord jim and the secret agent were good.

I liked Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim but not The Secret Agent which I thought was abit silly, and that guy with the bomb ready to blow himself up all the time really irritated me, but then everyone gets something different out of each book I suppose.

What really put me off Conrad was when I found out how he treated his children in real life.

The 'classic' comedies have often been disappointing to me. I can think of 3 without racking my brains: Swing Hammer Swing by Jeff Torrington, The World According to Garp [can't recall author] and Travels in Nilihon by Alan Sillitoe all began brilliantly with inspired humour and the sense of an author really enjoying himself but they all seem to lose inspiration about halfway through and seemed to be a chore for the author to finish.

Heart of Darkness was miserable. I thought Candide was poorly written, and Walden was infuriatingly boring through most parts.

At least I finished Heart of Darkness though.

Ugh, Heart of Darkness is next on my list! :brickwall

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Originally Posted by Nipponnay

Ugh, Heart of Darkness is next on my list! :brickwall

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cross it off then =)
well, I'd give u a piece of advise: don't judge the book basing on smb's opinions, read it yourself and then decide if it's worth reading, so in your place I wouldn't have been bothered)

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Originally Posted by mal4mac

Classic?

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Oh, excuse me. Of course that's not a classic. But one of the worst books I had the bad luck to come upon nevertheless.

I second IceMs comment on "Candide".

The worst classics I have ever read include "Pamela" by Samuel Richardson, "The Mysteries Of Udolpho" by Ann Radcliffe, James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake," and Hemingway's "Across The River And Into The Trees."