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Great books you don't like??
The extra letter:
--- Quote from: Dark Flame on 13 Feb 2007, 18:01 ---1985 was written by Anthony Burgess. Mayhaps you mean the significantly more famous 1984?
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Yeah, that too.
Narr:
This thread is the perfect opportunity for me to tear into James Joyce, as I have previously done in a thread devoted soley to "the master of stream of consciousness."
Why anyone would ever want to write in a faulty style is beyond me in the first place. I fucking couldn't stand reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in my lit class last semester, and that one is supposedly the easiest to read out of his great books. Ten pages into it, I felt like I needed to open up my skull and rub some pumice stone soap to get the dirt off of my brain. It's total bullshit that he's considered the greatest 20th century author by lots of literary types.
I don't think Austen is overly terrible, but I just don't like her style of writing, or any style of writing in novels during that era for that matter. They do an awful lot of telling, with the narrator's voice being the exact same as the author. That kind of bothers me. I like my narrators impartial, simply filling in important details in between dialogue.
I hate Dickens with a passion, although A Christmas Carol is actually really good. It's also simply funny, which most of Dickens' other stories were not. He's the perfect example of a writer with fantastic story ideas, really poignant stuff, that just cannot write worth a damn.
Lines:
you hit why i can't read Austen right on the head. it all blurred together and i couldn't tell what was going on.
Tyler:
I enjoyed Pride and Prejudice and Emma. Sense and Sensibility was also fairly good. While there are not many people from that era I enjoyed, I always appreciate authors with sharp wit, which was in prevalence in her novels.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: McTaggart on 14 Feb 2007, 07:53 ---Personally, I'd submit Steinbeck's first chapter but written backwards.
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--- Quote from: McTaggart on 14 Feb 2007, 07:53 ---Personally, I'd submit Steinbeck's first chapter but with no punctuation.
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--- Quote from: McTaggart on 14 Feb 2007, 07:53 ---Personally, I'd submit Steinbeck's first chapter except every character is replaced with an analogous Looney Tune.
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