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Great books you don't like??
Joseph:
The first thing that comes to mind for me is Animal Farm. It's just utterly lacking in imagination, there's no subtlety to the storyline. I just can't think of a single redeaming feature it has. Well, other than the fact that it's short, so I didn't need to suffer through it for long (though I read it through three times to try and see if I was missing anything).
You know, I'm also not big on 1984, though I'm not sure why. My favourite Orwell is definately Down And Out In Paris And London.
BrittanyMarie:
I know it's not a book, so please don't kill me but I HATE THE LOTTERY. Um, also Vanity Fair. I can't really discuss why I hate them, they just never hooked me.
8ilbo:
Tolkien reads to me like a cross between Thomas the Tank Engine and Alice in Wonderland - the story is good, but old, the writing is just terrible. It could be (certainly for the Hobbit) that its a children's book, and I'm not a child....
Rowling of course has the opposite problem - fantastic writing and a cruddy story.
Grapes of Wrath? That was a fantastic book...studying a book is like dissecting a flower to find the bit that makes it beautiful.
Most books by Richard Dawkins are considered to be 'great', but I can't get rid of this feeling while I read them that he is a prime tart...
fetusxcore:
I detest Shakespeare with a passion. Julius Caesar, Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer's Night Dream; I just can't stand any of it.
ackblom12:
--- Quote from: 8ilbo on 08 Jan 2007, 06:03 ---Tolkien reads to me like a cross between Thomas the Tank Engine and Alice in Wonderland - the story is good, but old, the writing is just terrible. It could be (certainly for the Hobbit) that its a children's book, and I'm not a child....
Rowling of course has the opposite problem - fantastic writing and a cruddy story.
Grapes of Wrath? That was a fantastic book...studying a book is like dissecting a flower to find the bit that makes it beautiful.
Most books by Richard Dawkins are considered to be 'great', but I can't get rid of this feeling while I read them that he is a prime tart...
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Honestly, It seems to me more that Tolkien was an amazing story teller and a not so amazing author.
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