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Great books you don't like??
Omnicide:
I'd take Kerouac over Capote anyday. Truman couldn't write a soup recipe.
Writers:
Jane Austen (Dull, dull, dull)
DH Lawrence (writes like an autistic child. endless repetition, sloganeering and cheesy sex)
TS Eliot (overladen with pointless symbolism)
John Updike
Julian Barnes
Kurt Vonnegut (with the exception of Mother Night)
I've never understood the love for Catcher in the Rye either. It's meaningless.
guywithoutsocks:
I like Vonnegut myself but I'll admit that sometimes I just can't take him seriously.
Off-topic, but nice avatar.
ThePQ4:
Pretty much anything classifed as "Classical Literature", with the one exception of The Wizard of Oz, because that is the greatest Classic-Lit book -ever-... I don't like the way they wrote back then. I find it easier to read books written within the last...oh, 35 years or so.
KharBevNor:
You mean you find it easier to read badly written childrens books? Well, yeah.
--- Quote from: guywithoutsocks on 18 Dec 2006, 19:10 ---Catcher in the Rye.
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Hell yes.
Dimmukane:
--- Quote from: guywithoutsocks on 18 Dec 2006, 19:10 ---Catcher in the Rye. Some people I know really like this book. Not me. Coming-of-age-story my ass, Holden Caulfield was a big baby.
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That was sort of the whole point. Holden was being what he himself called a "phony", and we're supposed to realize that and see how stupid it is and learn from it. I hated the book too. I'm not a big fan of a bunch of the older stuff. Jonathan Swift, Chaucer, and Shakespeare are okay.
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