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re: Name a well-known book or books that you would not recommend
Posted on 5/2/18 at 12:53 pm to TigerTroll11
Posted on 5/2/18 at 12:53 pm to TigerTroll11
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Turns out the "best" American literature is crap
Great Expectations is Dickens and Wuthering Heights is Bronte. Both are English.
F. Scott Fitzgerald is the only American author in your list. And The Great Gatsby is a fantastic book.
Turns out your uninformed opinion is crap.
There are many, many books I've tried to read but, without the aid of a class and instructor, have found myself unable to finish out of lack of desire to spend time laboring through a book. Turn of the Screw, A Portrait of the Artist, Republic, Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Stranger are all either on my nightstand or in my Kindle about 30 pages in.
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Posted on 5/2/18 at 2:35 pm to Ham And Glass
Most of the sensitive novels on my HS reading lists. Catcher, A Separate Peace, etc. I confess I wasn't that impressed with Gatsby-but that's a personal preference-not saying it's not a great book.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 8:14 am to Ham And Glass
I can’t stand Jules Verne. Just brain-meltingly boring style of writing.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 9:36 am to biglego
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - deadenly dull when I was a HS senior.
Frankenstein - Recently finally completed it - ok, but not what I'd expected; a let-down.
But that's me - no accounting for taste.
Frankenstein - Recently finally completed it - ok, but not what I'd expected; a let-down.
But that's me - no accounting for taste.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 11:32 am to Kvothe
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I made myself push through and finish the first. I read like 20 pages of the second and quit.
I don’t get the hype
I did the same thing, except I made it about 200 pages into the second book. Once got home from a vacation, I never had interest in picking it up again. I just couldn't believe that I was roughly 1.5 books into a series, and I had no idea what the overall point of the series was.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 12:41 pm to DestrehanTiger
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just couldn't believe that I was roughly 1.5 books into a series, and I had no idea what the overall point of the series was
You just don't get it, man!!! It's in medias res!!
Sarcasm font: ON [OFF]
Posted on 5/3/18 at 1:14 pm to Dubosed
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The Stand is a gigantic turd.
Shut your damn mouth...
Posted on 5/3/18 at 7:37 pm to TigerTroll11
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Great expectations
Great Gatsby
Wuthering heights
Turns out the "best" American literature is crap
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TigerTroll11
Nicely done.
Posted on 5/5/18 at 8:43 am to Ham And Glass
Frankenstein.
Boring and does not translate well to today's style. Jurassic Park is the same theme and moral and much better read.
Great Gatsby.
Nothing "great" about it.
Boring and does not translate well to today's style. Jurassic Park is the same theme and moral and much better read.
Great Gatsby.
Nothing "great" about it.
This post was edited on 5/5/18 at 8:46 am
Posted on 5/5/18 at 8:47 am to DestrehanTiger
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did the same thing, except I made it about 200 pages into the second book. Once got home from a vacation, I never had interest in picking it up again. I just couldn't believe that I was roughly 1.5 books into a series, and I had no idea what the overall point of the series was.
Glad I'm not the only one who did this.
It's King's LOTR. Books about walking.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 4:31 am to magildachunks
Admire the topographical detail
Posted on 5/6/18 at 5:57 pm to Ham And Glass
The scarlet letter
Posted on 5/6/18 at 6:00 pm to TigerTroll11
Great Gatsby is a great book,
I cannot read Stephen King, tried once, can't even remember the book, it was unreadable.
I cannot read Stephen King, tried once, can't even remember the book, it was unreadable.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 6:28 pm to Big Chipper
I can't read Joyce either
Posted on 5/7/18 at 8:02 am to Ham And Glass
Never did like Steinbeck. I did read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, and while I didn't hate them, I wouldn't recommend them.
Posted on 5/7/18 at 2:03 pm to Ham And Glass
Man what's with the Pynchon hate?
He's a slight acquired taste, but V is fantastic. Gravity's Rainbow, while slog, is worth it. And Mason &Dixon and IV are solid fun.
Anything by Wila Cather is my answer. But I figure most of our answers are those books that we had to read in High School and hated.
He's a slight acquired taste, but V is fantastic. Gravity's Rainbow, while slog, is worth it. And Mason &Dixon and IV are solid fun.
Anything by Wila Cather is my answer. But I figure most of our answers are those books that we had to read in High School and hated.
Posted on 5/7/18 at 3:07 pm to LoveThatMoney
Moby Dick
Posted on 5/8/18 at 1:30 pm to Ham And Glass
"Spanking The Maid" -Robert Coover
Posted on 5/8/18 at 11:38 pm to Ham And Glass
Because they just made the failure of a movie: Wrinkle in Time
I didn't understand what was going on half the time and somehow kept reading it.
I didn't understand what was going on half the time and somehow kept reading it.
Posted on 5/9/18 at 10:13 am to GoldenGuy
Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises
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