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Great books you don't like??
Mikagon:
Lord of the Flies, Things Fall Apart, and Heart of Darkness. Friggin' hate those books.
Emaline:
--- Quote from: Misconception on 24 Feb 2007, 10:03 ---The Scarlet Letter- Normally I did all of the required reading in HS, but I had to use Spark Notes for this one. I couldn't force myself to read it..
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I didn't even use Spark notes when we had to read it in HS. The book was so fucking predicable, I just guessed everything that would happen next, and was always right. It was terrible. I read maybe the first chapter, and returned it to the library.
I agree with everyone about Ayn Rand. I'd rather peel my skin off, fry it, and then eat it than read any of her books again. I read both Atlas Shrugged, and the one Rush wrote an album about(Anthem? Was that what the book was called?), and they were so boring. She's way too wordy.
loyalpeon:
--- Quote from: Johnny Evilguy on 13 Apr 2007, 12:43 ---Another one is Don Quixote... yeah it is suppose to be all satirical but blah I just hated the main character.
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In my channel-flipping days a few years back, I kept seeing this advertisment for a Hallmark-produced Don Quixote with John Lithgow starring as the title role. Now I never saw the movie in the end. Nor did I read the book. However, I have hence pictured Don Quixote as a medieval Dick Solomon and never looked back. I mean, how CAN you go wrong with that?!?
On topic - I could not get through the following two books and am inclined to consider them rubbish:
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway (fell asleep somewhere halfway)
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner (got through the whole dislodged-in-time bit only to be met by trite - apparently I can read 'crazy' but not 'boring')
RallyMonkey:
My girlfriend and I have been arguing over Joyce for the passed few days now. I read the first 30 pages of A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man, and the first page of Finnegan's Wake. My girlfriend insists the writing is genius, yet, I strongly disagree.
First of all, we have A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man. I'm not totally sure of the plot, it has some of the most simplistic dialogue I have ever read. It's all "noun verb, noun verb" through-out most of the narrative, with some poetry thrown in occasionally.
Then, Finnegan's Wake is from the exact opposite spectrum. I can't definitively say this is a bad book, because I don't understand a word of it, but I can definitely make thoughts to that conclusion. I don't feel bad at all for not understanding it, because I doubt many people do.
I do love the thought of a recursive novel, though.
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