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jimbunny:
Indeed, a lot of Shakespeare's poetry hinged on peculiarities in the pronunciation of Elizabethan English that are gone today.

magnanimusman:
i get epilepctic fits from jane austin.

eveisdawning:
I happen to think Pride and Prejudice by Austen is wonderful. I think it's required to have a uterus to like this book. Not saying that every female likes it, but.. I can't think of too many guys that do. I also love Shakespeare, although not his poetry.

A man that I have immense hatred for: Charles Dickens. GOOD CHRIST, he needs to shut up. I have hated everything by this man that I have been forced to read. Although Oliver Twist was okay. But Great Expectations? I wanted to shoot myself. In the face.

I also second (or third? or fourth? I'm not sure...) the hatred of James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was one of the most painful things I've ever had to read. Also, Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence was pretty fucking awful, in my opinion. It seems I'm not a big fan of BritLit. Except Jane Austen.

I'm sure there are others that I can't think of right now.. honestly, I hate a lot of so-called classic literature.

GruntyBalboa:
I despised the Crucible SO MUCH. SO FUCKING MUCH!

Agh, god, I hated that book. HATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATE! It was utter crap, and it's even worse when your retarded high school classmates have to read it. They didn't even try to put any emotion in to it

Narr:
Agreed, Grunty.

Puritans are such a boring subject to write about.  I think Hawthorne had potential to be amazing, but alas, he wrote about something so genuinely uninteresting that I have a strange love/hate relationship with his works.  The Crucible is just doubly bad because it's not actually about Puritans, but it's about COMMUNISM in relation to how Puritans are depicted.  I forgot the writer of the play, isn't that sad?

There's nothing worse than trying to read a play out loud and people not putting any emotion into it?

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