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Great books you don't like??
Scandanavian War Machine:
Catcher in the Rye - it's about nothing! i finished it and didnt feel that i had even read anything.
1984 - ok, i like this book but it's so draining to read. i had to take a break every 3 or 4 pages because it actually wore me out. it took me twice as long to read 1984 as it would have to read something that was twice as long. great book but what a pain in the ass.
Beautiful Maladies:
Wuthering Heights. I had to drop my AP English course just because I couldnt force myself through it.
On the other hand, the same course required me to read "The Importance of Being Earnest", which is what started me on my Oscar Wilde kick that i've been on for a while.
So it was a mixed blessing.
Omnicide:
--- Quote from: MadOvid on 19 Apr 2007, 03:32 ---As for me, Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir is high on my list of terrible great books.
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A fucking men to that. After 3 years of Uni I've done Beowulf, the decammeron, Henry James and a disertation on Ulysses but goddammit there are lost tribes living in Beauvoir's sentences. "After the third semi-colon we just gave up and ate Barry for nourishment!"
Over-rated poets, anyone? When they made us study William Carlos Williams and listen to people call The Red Wheelbarrow 'genius' I finally snapped. Literary academia is a haven for the truest kind of metnal defectives.
Gimme a Dollar:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 23 Dec 2006, 11:23 ---If anyone in here says they can't read Steinbeck I may cut them.
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I can't read Steinbeck. Sorry.
People now adays are raving about fucking Eragon. Fuck Them, thank you very much. Lets take the basic point of Star Wars. Eat a dick, Paolini.
Jimmy the Squid:
Of Mice and Men
Wuthering Heights
Anything by Rousseau
Anything by James Hillman - the man is a fucking egomaniacal fuckwit who only writes in buzzwords.
Anything by Annie Proulx but specifically The Shipping News
I actually really like Robin Hobb, I find her style a lot easier to digest then say Tolkien or Eddings.
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