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.Originally Posted by EPluribusUnus
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
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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?Did you read an abridged version?
He published his books in newspapers per chapter. That, yes.
I cn't recall any shallow characterisation, though.
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
This was probably mentioned before: Dan Browns Da Vinci Code
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits
in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”
Helen Keller
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.
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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.
What are regrets? Just lessons we haven't learned yet - Beth Orton
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!
Currently reading: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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cross it off then =)Ugh, Heart of Darkness is next on my list!
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)
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".
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits
in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”
Helen Keller
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."
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