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Great books you don't like??
KharBevNor:
Jane Austen is pretty shit. Especially compared to the Brontes.
Omnicide:
--- Quote --- I'm not a big fan of a bunch of the older stuff. Jonathan Swift, Chaucer, and Shakespeare are okay.
--- End quote ---
Bugger Chaucer. 800 year old fart gags shouldn't be anyones idea of classic lit.
So basically we're all giving up on older books because of their 'outdated' styles. Bye bye Steinbeck, Blake, Dostoyevsky, Joyce and Dickens. Also: music made before 1969 sucks because it is old and their recording technology was silly and medieval.
camelpimp:
I dare say Classic Lit should ONLY be 800 year old fart jokes, but maybe that's just me.
Kaktion:
I can't read Huckleberry Finn or anything by Mark Twain really without wondering what was the point of the book. The LOTR books are hit or miss with me: one read-through I adore them and the other I find myself thinking about why we had to know who Frodo lent his third favorite tea set to and who some obscure character with only two lines' great-great-great grandfather was and how many kids he had, etc. etc. Back and forth, back and forth with these books.
Omnicide:
--- Quote from: camelpimp on 19 Dec 2006, 03:38 ---I dare say Classic Lit should ONLY be 800 year old fart jokes, but maybe that's just me.
--- End quote ---
Try writing an essay on it in University. "So your man here farts, which causes a girl to fall off a roof. And this symbolizes dark age serf attitudes to the then bourgeouise attitudes of the ruling class during feudalism blah blah de waffle blah..."
Dreams about cannibal rapists are less painful.
Huck Finn? It's about pre-civil war racism in America from a child's pov.
This is the only time in my entire life where a literature will ever be even vaguely useful. indulge me.
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