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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 17:16:23 GMT -6
As I've said, I love to read the "classics," American, English and Russian literature especially. There are usually great reasons they are designated as classics.
I usually put away a book if I'm not 'absorbed' at least after the first hundred pages or so, but I'll go further with classics.
However, the most disappointing "classic" I've read to date, front to back, is "The Great Gatsby." It was pathetically boring and mundane, imo.
Peace,
OHD
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Post by springschick on Nov 5, 2012 17:21:55 GMT -6
I felt that way about "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. I tried so hard to get through it, but what a snoozefest! It was required reading for my high school English class.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 18:32:17 GMT -6
"Last of the Mohicans" by James Fenimore Cooper. I loved the Daniel Day-Lewis movie, but the book is worse than awful.
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Post by Shenanigan on Nov 5, 2012 19:16:02 GMT -6
"Moby Dick". Bored out of my mind. Didn't make it past chapter 6.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 19:39:00 GMT -6
"Last of the Mohicans" by James Fenimore Cooper. I loved the Daniel Day-Lewis movie, but the book is worse than awful. It held my interest, barely, and was quite forgettable. I haven't seen the movie, but I like Daniel Day-Lewis. Peace, OHD
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Post by heregoes on Nov 5, 2012 19:40:12 GMT -6
"Last of the Mohicans" by James Fenimore Cooper. I loved the Daniel Day-Lewis movie, but the book is worse than awful. It held my interest, barely, and was quite forgettable. I haven't seen the movie, but I like Daniel Day-Lewis. Peace, OHD The movie is well done. Day-Lewis is a good actor. I'm looking forward to his portrayal of Lincoln.
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Post by heregoes on Nov 5, 2012 19:42:57 GMT -6
I can't think of a single "classic" that I enjoyed.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 19:44:36 GMT -6
"Moby Dick". Bored out of my mind. Didn't make it past chapter 6. Same here!! I didn't finish that one, as best I can remember. I liked "Steppenwolfe," by Melville though. I think he wrote that. Strike that, that was Herman Hess!! Peace, OHD
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 19:46:35 GMT -6
I can't think of a single "classic" that I enjoyed. Nothing!!? Wow! Not even Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, when you were a kid? Peace, OHD
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Post by heregoes on Nov 5, 2012 19:48:50 GMT -6
I can't think of a single "classic" that I enjoyed. Nothing!!? Wow! Not even Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, when you were a kid? Peace, OHD Hmm I guess I didn't think of those as fitting in the category. Those were ok but not something I'd go back to again.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 19:50:24 GMT -6
I loved Moby Dick! I thought it was a great book.
Want to be bored to tears, try reading "Tristram Shandy." Or the incomprehensible "Finnegan's Wake" or ANYTHING by Kurt Vonnegut. They tried to feed us this crap when I was in high school. YEEE-UCK.
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Post by heregoes on Nov 5, 2012 19:52:07 GMT -6
I love Vonnegut!
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Post by Shenanigan on Nov 5, 2012 19:55:13 GMT -6
Same here!! I didn't finish that one, as best I can remember. I liked "Steppenwolfe," by Melville though. I think the only thing I've read by Melville was, "Bartleby the Scrivener". It's just a short story, but very interesting.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 20:00:11 GMT -6
I can't think of a single "classic" that I enjoyed. Nothing!!? Wow! Not even Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, when you were a kid? Peace, OHD I liked the old movie they made of "Tom Sawyer" back in the 1930s. The scene where he feeds the cat his medicine and then the cat races around the walls of his bedroom 6 feet up in the air is hysterical.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 20:07:11 GMT -6
Nothing!!? Wow! Not even Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, when you were a kid? Peace, OHD I liked the old movie they made of "Tom Sawyer" back in the 1930s. The scene where he feeds the cat his medicine and then the cat races around the walls of his bedroom 6 feet up in the air is hysterical. I think I've seen that. Was Mickey Rooney, Tom Sawyer, or did he do Huck Finn? Peace, OHD
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