I just like classics in general really.
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I just like classics in general really.
You are just as bad as he/she is. He is entitled to dislike any author he/she wants. Just because he/she doesn't like Austen, doesn't mean he is an amateur reader, or that he doesn't like good books; it means plan and simply that his taste varies from yours.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dorian Gray
disregard
A lot of people dislike Wuthering Heights. Too dramatic? I think it's beautiful writing myself.
Disregard
Never mind
Ok, I got angry in my last couple of posts here. Gone & forgotten
I wouldn't necessarily list it here but I read this novel immediately after being walloped by 1984. The differences are monumental I basically lost touch temporarily upon finishing the latter.Quote:
Originally Posted by NickAdams
My two least favourites would most likely be Great Expectations and Swann's Way.
Mostly Swann's Way-- It might be that I simply 'didn't understand the author's beautiful sense of whatever the story was about', but I found it unbearably slow.
Great Expectations just isn't my cuppa'. I found it boring. It's written, however, very prettily.
'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. Or anything by Oscar Wilde for that matter. Unbearably glib.
What? Catch-22? (BTW this is @ adolescent from several pages back). That was one of my favorite books.
Anyways, I suppose that I hated The Scarlet Letter the most. Monotonous unneeded detail to description is mainly why. But also because it was just a bad revenge story and not a great romance. If we're talking about literature in general, I also don't like Emily Dickenson's poetry. As a matter of fact she is my least favorite poet that I know of.
I was wondering if i am the only one who didn't like this book..it seems that there are two of us :DQuote:
Originally Posted by NickAdams
1984 does drop a heavy shadow on Animal Farms shoulders.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stieg
There has to be more. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by manolia
Who else thinks Yertle the Turtle is a stronger read?
I didn't like The Catcher in the Rye. Somehow it didn't make much sense... I like books that actually have a plot of some kind.
Wuthering Heights was a bit better when I read it for second time, but still there's something I don't like.
Anna Karenina was a bit too long and I found remembering the names of all the characters quite difficult...
I could list here some Finnish classics too, which I had to read at school, but no one would probably know them, so I'll just forget about them :D
(But I DO like Jane Austen's books very much :D I didn't, when I first read two of them, but now I do)
Confession: Based on the two works of his that I've read, I can't say I care too much for Dostoevsky. The Idiot annoyed me through both its unconvincing melodrama (Exagerated swagger may be convincing in a more fantastic, heightened reality, but in a realistic domestic setting, it comes across as almost campy) and its irritating characters. Notes from Underground.... Well, lets just say the French Existentialists would do similar things better. Sorry, but I think Nabakov may have had Fyodor pegged. Perhaps Crime and Punishment or The Bros. Karamazov would go down better?
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Originally Posted by manolia
I didn't like it, i just could not get over those pigs walking and dressing like people. Stupid, i know. BUT still. i will say it was oddly interesting when everyone was discussing it's theme but those "themes" never crossed my mind while reading it. Once the teacher brought it up it was like, "ohhh...yeah. i guess that makes sense."
Oh and has anyone tried reading the English Patient? Geez, now that was a boring book. No matter how many times i gave it a chance I just couldn’t get into it.
Oh don't worry, i knew perfectly well what the book was talking about ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by RaatKiRanii
I have never really liked Hemingway, Faulkner or Fitzgerald-the (in my opinion) troika of American mediocrity.
And that was?Quote:
Originally Posted by manolia
Even so, you have to appreciate the fact that they, minus Fitzgerald, influenced at least three of your favorite authors. Especially Faulkner: the author who inspired Marquez to become a writer.:nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by Inderjit Sanghe
The Turn of the Screw and Great Expectations
Read it and see for yourself ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lote-Tree
Oh, c'mon, Animal Farm is a terrific satire. Don't tell me you read it as if it were a boring fable involving pigs! And just because it's analogy is reminiscent of that of the fables and because it isn't wordy, Animal Farm should by no means be seen as a lesser novel.
This is the humble opinion of a teen, bear in mind, and even though you are more than entitled to have your opinions, I'm also entitled to differ from them ;)
For me, an allegory has to work in both its latent and manifested story.
I didn't say that it is a lesser novel. I just said that i didn't like it at all. Can't one be entitled of his/hers own opinion?Quote:
Originally Posted by kandaurov
And I didn't say you said that :) I'm just saying it should not be seen as one.Quote:
Originally Posted by manolia
You are. Didn't you read me saying precisely that, in those precise words? I'm just giving my opinion, which happens to contrast with yours. That's what keeps debates going :)Quote:
Originally Posted by manolia
Yes i agree. Here's what annoyed me a bit in your own wordsQuote:
Originally Posted by kandaurov
It seemed that you were presuming too much. There are certain reasons why i strongly disliked this book and the one you suggest isn't even close. Sorry if i was a bit jumpy ;)Quote:
Don't tell me you read it as if it were a boring fable involving pigs!
Well, Animal Farm is no Dickens.
No, it sometimes seems unfair that Dickens got so much talent and people like Austen got so little ;) :p :goof:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dorian Gray
Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Sorry Hardy fans, but that just put me to sleep. If only sleeping medication was as reliable.
Kilted, are we going to have to start calling you an Anti-Austenite? :p ;)
Of Mice and Men I hate Stienbeck in general but this was what inspired most of that hatred.
Of Mice and Men shows one of the truest forms of love, how on earth could you hate it ????
Because it was depressing.
a little yes, but when you really loved some one and you break up arn't you depressed but it was love so it was wonderful.
I don't quite understand your logic. Love is wonderful but once you break up is the love still there?
He's only saying that to annoy me.Quote:
Originally Posted by kathycf
Hey Angry Scotman, did you get your kilt in a twist? :P
I forgot Age of Innocence from my list. I managed to read it through, but it wasn't the least bit interesting.
Two modern classics that hurt.
'Zazie In The Metro'- Raymond Queneau. Piss weak.
'Rabbit, Run'- John Updike. Debut novelist writes 20,000 words before thinking of idea for novel.
Tom Sawyer...( is it even called that? By Twain) Inever get past the fence incedent in the first chapter I just fall a sleep right off. Its rather ridiculous really.
Quite true, and as for my kilt it has been in a permanent twist recently :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Dorian Gray
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Originally Posted by kathycf
I may have to change "shiftless layabout" to reflect that.