I wasn't including that because it's more like the worst book that's ever been published.
Its certainly the worst book I've ever half read, and I've half read the yellow pages.
The fact it's dressed up as truth is horrifying.
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What are the most over rated books of all time?
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I wasn't including that because it's more like the worst book that's ever been published.
Its certainly the worst book I've ever half read, and I've half read the yellow pages.
The fact it's dressed up as truth is horrifying.
Used to keep this on my desk at work. Was told to put it away I'm case the boss came in.
Not understanding that the boss could only think
" There's a book on his desk he must be reading it all day"
Another sort of pretend game I didn't bother with.
I sort of got the book
If you start with the first one he did it sort of clues you in. The first page is baby talk. Then each subsequent page is like an evolution in thought,moment to moment as Joyce splurges out each second if thought.
Problem is with ulysses - the same process continues. It becomes too abstruse because of his level if education and the narrow field he inhabits.
But,let me put it like this, I'm not reading it again.
It was a victim if intellectual snobbery in Britain.
Well written for it's purpose,genre and readership.
Meaning it didn't need to be well written.
Buy at the airport, get drunk for two weeks on your holiday and read on the beach before you start drinking again. That kind of book.
I started On the Road and fell asleep. I dreamt I was sleeping. Then I woke up in a coma.
There's loads of books like that, which didn't attract the same degree of hatred.
For me it's because it's all marketing, and the use of bs and controversy just to sell copies.
Without the bs we would never have heard of it.
A lot of the classics that we had to study for English Lit. at school, such as Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Bronte, Jane Austens's Emma, Thomas Hardy's Tess, James Joyce were really not that interesting, at least, not to me, who looks for something different in novels like unusual ideas and concepts. I would love to have studied George Orwell or H.G Wells, or something more modern instead of these classics that we were made to study. However, I did quite like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, I found that quite amusing and refreshingly different. I quite liked Oscar Wilde, too. And T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland, because I could relate to it.
What's the other one with the slough of despond?
Thought that one was hilarious.
Bunyan's pilgrims progress.
Read the works of Oscar Wilde when I was quite young.
So my mental framework became part fop, with biblical references, throw in some Stephen king and the three stooges.
Put in a darkened room,like a mushroom and let the influences amalgamate and ferment.
Foment would also work!
The wasteland I read as it was in a Stephen king book.
The crickets no relief was the bit that stood out.
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I'd put things in English lit that were challenging, not boring.
Ian banks the wasp factory to start with.
I love his use of language.
Ian banks the wasp factory to start with.
I love his use of language.
I don't know this one.
What is fop?
My favourite Eliot quote is:
"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but with a whimper".
Very prophetic.
What is a fop.
A bit like a dandy.
A way to describe the personhood of Oscar wilde, and typical or certain types at that time.
The way I tend to describe the sterotypical role played by Hugh Grant.
Typical English fop.
Though not technically correct but illustrative.
Harry Potter is a huge waste of time. Snore...... I don't even read Potter books to my grandkids.
While Stephen King has some novel ideas (pun intended), I usually don't like the dark aspects of his writings.
While Stephen King has some novel ideas (pun intended), I usually don't like the dark aspects of his writings.
I find Mr. Banks' offerings superb. I glad there are so many, wish there had been more.
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I didn't like Wuthering Heights at all. It seemed to be all about unpleasant people bickering with each other and marrying their cousins. I found myself wishing that a present-day New York therapist would breeze in anachronistically and tell Cathy: "You need to get out more! Get away from Yorkshire and DON'T CALL HIM!"
The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien. Yawn, yawn.
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien. Yawn some more.
In my previous attempts to fit into the NT female world (I no longer bother to try) I tried, and failed dismally, to read 'chick lit' recommended by female colleagues. Watching paint dry is more interesting than this genre
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien. Yawn some more.
In my previous attempts to fit into the NT female world (I no longer bother to try) I tried, and failed dismally, to read 'chick lit' recommended by female colleagues. Watching paint dry is more interesting than this genre
I don't know how popular it is but my high school English teached had us read the book Montana 1948 by Larry Watson and seemed to think it was the greatest thing ever. I went to a private high school for people with psychiatric issues and feel this book wasn't appropiate for that kind of school (I won't say why in case anyone wants to read it). I was forced to read it anyway and when I complained nothing was done about it. Aside from it being inapproate for the setting I still don't think it had any great value.
I agree, Dune is over-hyped. It's good, but hardly "the best science fiction novel ever written".
It's equal with Lord of the rings in terms of fly killing
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