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Originally Posted by Brian Bean
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no they don'tQuote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
Cal. some British author wrote it, it was cheap and the title was simple but it was very boring and left nothing...
Good point. :smash:Quote:
Originally Posted by sixsmith
Really? When I read that book, every five minutes was a revelation.Quote:
Originally Posted by bazarov
For me, I had a lot of trouble discerning a point in Joyce's Dubliners. After almost every story I was asking "so what?" (Araby especially. It took me a lot of time to figure out what the kid's problem was). If I can't figure out what the author is saying on my own, I seek a second opinion. I've learned that there's always something.
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Originally Posted by fb0252
WHAAA?!? I thought that the "point" of those novels were EXTREAMLY obvious (that's why they pass them out in the tenth grade).Quote:
Originally Posted by Annamariah
Murphy-Beckett
Even though I've enjoyed it,i thought it was pointless.Or it's just that i didn't get the point.
And i still think that Unbearable lightness of being was just empty.
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Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
Some of the suggestions have been pretty stupid.
Orlando, by Virginia Woolf. People consider this her most accessible novel, but to me, it was so unbelievable dense and pointless that it was agonising to finish. To the Lighthouse was far better and, in my opinion, far easier to read.
I found Orlando easy to read mainly because of the humour. I also didn't think it was pointless, but there you go.
I also thought Great Gatsby was excellent. The last paragraph just gives me shivers every time. That idea of all of us chasing our dreams 'against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past'. The tragedy of Gatbsy creating himself all over again to be with what is, essentially, a memory (the past) to find that his dream is gone, it's already receded, as all our dreams will that are born in our past (all of them?). It's all perfectly encapsulated there. Actually pointing out this paragraph that he does this with almost seems to degrade it.
For me the Great Gatsby is an entertaining novel, setting everything up, until the last couple of chapters when it turns into a great novel. When everything starts to unravel.
I'd be wary of calling these 'classic' books pointless, seems quite arrogant. 'I didn't get the point' is probably more accurate than it being pointless. With that in mind, i don't think I can think of one of these classics that I got absolutely nothing from. I was disappointed by Shakespeare's comedies because they're not funny...at all. 'Haha, i'm dressed as a WOMAN!'.
heh.
Pride and Prejudice. Case closed. It's the stupidest book ever.
Why?....Quote:
Originally Posted by Pryderi Agni
Klone and I by Daniele Steel, and to think that person has made lots of money. :brickwall
Factotum by Charles Bukowski
Story mainly revolves around this guy who quits jobs at the first chance he gets em', travels around the country and meets different people, and finally decides to stay in L.A to marry a prostitute.
I know what Bukowski was tryin to express but the book seems pretty pointless...Too nihilistic 4 my taste.
Have you read every book ever written? If not how can you make a comparison?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pryderi Agni
Pointless Books? Anything and everything by Gertrude Stein.
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
Nothing...NOTHING!!!
What you doing reading Danielle Steele??Quote:
Originally Posted by FanofdeBeauvoir