Originally Posted by Etienne
I was replying to the first part of her question.
I was replying to the first part of her question.
You got me. Although I believe you need to read more than "a couple of pages" to judge if a book is good or not.I was replying to the first part of her question.
no one yell at me, but im gonna say the portrait of dorian gray. just too damn dry for me...
Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
You could be right. Maybe I'll go back and try to read it again.
There really isn't anything that I've come across so far in my explorations in literature that I would deem really bad. The only thing I can say is that I'm not a fan at all of contemporary literature. I would have to say the worst book that I've read (as far as I can recall) would be Sarah Dunant's The Birth of Venus.
com-pas-sion (n.) [ME. & OFr. <LL. (Ec.) compassio, sympathy < compassus, pp. of compati, to feel pity < L. com-, together + pali, to suffer] sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity
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I am almost finnished with that book now, and I have to say I love it.
I would have to say another book I read, that perhaps was not the worst, but I don't think I would recomend, and that I very nearly quit reading a couple of times, but decided to bare through to the end, was Norman Mailers Ancient Egypt.
I do not think I am too conservitive or a prude in fact I have read and enjoyed some pretty racey things before, but I swear this book could not get a couple of lines without trying to make at least one obcesne reference. I think it really was more porn then it was plot.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Read Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy. I thought it to be a much better novel that shares its setting (and a few characters).
com-pas-sion (n.) [ME. & OFr. <LL. (Ec.) compassio, sympathy < compassus, pp. of compati, to feel pity < L. com-, together + pali, to suffer] sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity
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I will have to check that out, thanks for the recomendation
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
people who cannot read Dickens, Conrad or Melville should not be on here but on PulpNet
Don't know about terrible but definitely the most overrated book I have ever read is The Grapes of Wrath.
The characters speak in monologues and in ways that characters of the background would not have conversed in....John Steinbeck's ultra dry flat prose doesn't help.
In general I am not a fan of Steinbeck.
I know people are going to kill me if I say this in lit net, but the book that revolted me so much, is......
Pride and Prejudice
I've read better books from around that era: Tess of the D'Urbervilles was awesome! I hope I never have to read another book of jane Austen's EVER.
I also agree that Coelho's The Alchemist is the worst book I've ever read even though in my country that book is still best-seller. I tried but I couldn't go on it- I couldn't stand it.
Dickens is one of my favorites, never read Conrad, Melville is a huge bore.
Should I be cast off because my tastes may differ from yours?
LOL
Jeff
BTW, I love pulp fiction.
Just finished "The Grapes Of Wrath," loved it.
Just shows that people have different tastes.
Jeff
"Lennie said, "I thought you was mad at me, George."
"No," said George. "No Lennie. I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' I ain't now. Thats a thing I want ya to know."
I am not much of a Steinbeck fan myself, I do not overall care for his writing style. Though I was suprised by The Grapes of Wrath, I liked it more then I thought I would for a Steinbeck.
I did not really care for Of Mice and Men though
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
The most boring book I've ever read is Don Quixote. It was a torture for me to read it till the end. I admit that it has some parts that are quite ok but it is really boring as a whole. For me of course- I know many people won't agree with me.
"All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity. "
(Shakespeare, Hamlet, ACT I Scene 2 )
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