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elizaknowswhatshesfor:
I grew up reading those books & only really noticed the blantent references when I saw the film. which is weird as I was I was brought up to question everything from science to religion, in everything I read and watched.
I liked fighting bears & badgers. I liked the talking mouse. These were my agendas as a child, talking animals.
I think they are pretty well written, but I'd need to go back & re-read them now. I haven't for maybe 10 years?
Be My Head:
I noticed the Christian allegorical aspects of Narnia when I read them as a child, but only because I was told that Aslan is supposed to be like Jesus (I didn't really understand what allegory meant).
Theriandros:
--- Quote from: WriterofAllWrongs on 03 Sep 2009, 10:41 ---Well, which ones did you read? Because a few of his books are pretty slow (Galapagos), but they are generally really quality books all the same.
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The Sirens of Titan, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Slaughter-House Five, and Timequake. His ideas are ok, but I can't stand his rambling style.
kraemandrummer:
--- Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 21 Aug 2009, 19:44 ---I'm going to go ahead and take a dump on Joseph Conrad real quick, because Heart of Darkness straight up put me to sleep within 5 pages, no matter where in the book I tried to read it from. I haven't read anything else by him but goddamn is that book overrated.
I don't know what it was about it, maybe I'll revisit it sometime and find out that he's actually worth reading for some reason, but seriously, that book sucked ass.
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I enjoyed that book. Surprisingly.
It was a slough though. I admit.
an author I loathe with a passion is Ayn fucking Rand.
a) because Objectivism is retarded
b) her novels were only written to push that retarded philosophy
c) Due to this she doesn't develop her characters really. They're just representative of things she hates - flat characters. And her prose is friggin awful.
How her books attained their status, I have no idea.
One book I thought was just a mess was Slaughter-House 5. Now, I found the idea interesting. And some of it did stick with me. But god, it felt like the author wrote a linear story, and then cut and pasted random bits back and forth until it was a convoluted knot. maybe that is how he approached it. I don't know. I won't say Vonnegut is a bad author though, I need to read at least one more of his to make that decision.
a lot of people find Les Miserables by Hugo a hard read. I friggin loved it.
kraemandrummer:
--- Quote from: WriterofAllWrongs on 10 Sep 2009, 21:57 ---Lord of The Rings wasn't aimed at children either, you know. I mean, I'd be impressed with a kid if s/he could get through and fully comprehend a chapter of that book, because it is just so rich and so incredibly verbose. Plus, there's only Christian sentiment in that book. No allegory (Tolkein hated the stuff), which makes it even fuzzier than Narnia in regards to sending a Christian message. I don't mean to be all sorts of contrary and rude, but The Matrix was probably a much better fit.
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does our parents reading it to us count?
My dad read every book from start to finish to my sister and I when we were like 6 years old
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