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Great books you don't like??
KharBevNor:
The difference between old-school literature and the novel is that the novel is, well, novel. That is, it tells a new tale. Not all novels focus on psychological evolution by far. The reason the Canterbury tales isn't a novel is because the plots were lifted wholesale from the Decameron and French poetry. Chaucers skill was the pointed, somewhat satirical tweaks he put on these tales, and his marvellous language and humour, but apart from, possibly, the framing narrative and the way it's all been composited, with the characterisation of the pilgrims and the social commentary that their manner of speaking and choices of tales provide. Don Quixote is all made up. That's slightly off I suppose, but hey.
Don Quixote's the first western novel. Tale of Genji is a different tradition. I suspect it might have been termed a romance had it been produced in the west, though I'm not sure, because nothing like it really cropped up in the western literary tradition for a good while afterwards. If you're to define novel in the modern way, and then work backwards globally, then I suspect it would be the first novel.
TheFuriousWombat:
Austin was mentioned earlier and i have to agree and add to that a great deal of other victorina literature. even the brontes and dickens i struggle with. the novels always tend to be, in my opinion, overlong and ponderous. instead of fascination and occasionally caustic examinations of class and society i find them pretty dull and uninteresting. i sorta enjoyed hard times and jane eyre but the farther into them i got the harder it was for me to have any motivation to continue. i guess i just haven't garnered an appreciation for the era yet.
ackblom12:
Goddamn Mother Fucking Ass Raping Bitch... "Grapes of Wrath" can suck my fucking nuts.
I read that monstrously long boring ass book for high School and I hated every fucking second of it.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 23 Dec 2006, 11:23 ---If anyone in here says they can't read Steinbeck I may cut them.
--- End quote ---
Anyways another one occured to me. Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a fucking terrible book. Honestly I would say I hate it more than any other book I've ever read.
camelpimp:
Honestly I never even gave that book a chance. That and Faulkner.
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