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Not really. Last six weeks we read the Outsiders and everyone enjoyed that.
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That's not the case. Teachers specifically target bad books - books that are boring, but tells some sort of whatever thing. And then when I asked them why the heck they get those boring books, they say that's all there is. I read lots of books, so I downright KNOW that's bullshit.
Here, you could only read one if it had someone killed or raped, was written by a danish author, and was boring as hell. For all books, no exceptions.
That was middle-school. The books we are currently reading are actually exciting - while still being very informative. We don't read many danish books, but translated foreign books, that are a million times better.
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I like to read, but I never really liked Moby Dick that much. I guess I take after my dad with that one.
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That sucks
I love reading books because it just lets my mind wander. But sometimes that's a bad thing, especially with the book I'm reading now (called Nights) that's about the Holocaust. The 3rd part is making me depressed...
And let me add, Fahrenheit 451 was a great book (excuse my spelling), but the movie was absolutly horrible. We watched it in English class, and had a good laugh. I remember someone saying 'it looks like it's made in someone's backyard'. Which it probably was. i want to see the remake that's coming out soon, though...
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Hamlet... complex? It gets handed out to the kids that aren't good enough for a mainstream English course, where I live. :S
It must depend where you live because where I live it's only taught in college Literature courses.
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I cannot stand the Bronte sisters or actually most 19th century female writers. Or Nathanial Hawthorne. Excellent plots, especially in the latter's case. But the verbiage was dreadful.
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I love them both for daring to be sexy and passionate and show women as emotional beings with their own will in a time when that just didn't happen :)
You might like Mrs Gaskell - she's much sparer on the prose, possibly due to not living in a windswept moor (you see, the windswept moor bit is my problem too - it does things to your soul I tell you)!
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You sound like my cousin, a whiny person who hates books.
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I cannot stand the Bronte sisters or actually most 19th century female writers. Or Nathanial Hawthorne. Excellent plots, especially in the latter's case. But the verbiage was dreadful.
I liked Catcher in the Rye as well, despite everyone else hating it. And I've never read the Bronte sisters, but I couldn't stand Nathanial Hawthorne - Scarlet Letter was terrible.
Oh, and Hardball by Chris Matthews, but now we're just getting into stupid territory.
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Aw the Beatles were so innocent!
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And you liked Phoenix Wright, a TEXT-BASED adventure game?
Why do you guys think Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet and all those other Shakespeare things were books? They were scripts for plays... how someone could hate Hamlet or Dickens is beyond me, unless they had a poor vocabulary.
A really terrible book was the Man Without a Country. Although it is actually pretty short, it is still drawn out for a ridiculous amount. And they punish this guy a ridiculous amount for saying something like "Damn America!" The ending just makes it so depressing...
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Not all authors styles suit everyone. I'm quite fond of Thomas Hardy for example, but I know plenty of folks who find him unreadable for the same reason I like him.
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Fahrenheit 451 is a book I was forced to read, err, listen to for Honors English. After listening to that book, I had the words "Denham's Dentrifice" stuck in my head, infact, I still do. Of coarse, while listening to the book, I spent most of my time playing on the computer, so I didn't remember much for the book review, but I still managed a good score.
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I bet if nobody died in HP7 you'd be whining that NOBODY DIES IN HP LOL.
Though I guess no one will be satisfyed
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Damn she was BOURD of the crap! You could tell!
"Walk two moons" My GOD. That killed me.
And what was it called... something about Lucy Jane. *snore*
Annnnnd...
I can't think of anymore right now.
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(considering I could read before I could walk... or close enough)
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I love them both for daring to be sexy and passionate and show women as emotional beings with their own will in a time when that just didn't happen :)
You might like Mrs Gaskell - she's much sparer on the prose, possibly due to not living in a windswept moor (you see, the windswept moor bit is my problem too - it does things to your soul I tell you)!
I did tolerate Jane Eyre, don't really know the first one you said. So I guess I can't judge. Like I said, the plots are great and I especially liked the characters in Jane Eyre. It was just so much prose that even as an English freak I began to get ill. Seven pages describing a garden (from a Nathanial Hawethorne, Rappacinni's Daughter I think it was) is about five pages too many for me. I loved the plot about the poisoned girl, and the poisoned garden, but if I hadn't had to read it for school I would have stopped about halfway through how lovely the roses were.
What did Gaskell write?
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I do enjoy classics, even though they can be a bit dry. Tolkein's the worst for this (I'm looking at you Silmarillion), but some of Woolf, Austen and even Dickens I really have to be in the mood for.
I know Shakespeare's not a book and his plays were never meant to be read, but the comedies were painfully formulaeic. The tragedies made up for it, though; Macbeth, Othello and especially Hamlet (Lion King lol) were excellent and it's fairly easy to see how his plays have survived to the modern day.
Some thrillers I didn't enjoy, simply because they were too dark. I can't read Cornwell, McDermind or Patterson before bed simply because they freak me out (yes, I'm an adult, shut up).
... I honestly can't think of a book I've really hated. There have been a lot of unmemorable ones, as well as a few I never finished reading because I wasn't interested in the subject matter, but none that... really sucked.
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I was replying to TheeGoblin,who said that "if your told to read something by a teacher, theres an element of boredom and skeptism that ruins a good book".
I countered that with my point that "The case is simply that teachers doesn't pick good books".
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Don't get me wrong. I've read some good books in school too. I'm just talking about MOST of them.
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I enjoyed studying them, too; I enjoy books more while reading them with a critical eye than just reading because it's something to do. I think you can appreaciate characters, themes, use of language, stylistic features and lots of other things much more that way.
I wish I'd studied English Lit past GCSE level, actually.
...the only thing I really didn't enjoy was War of the Worlds, and I just don't like sci-fi.
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CRANFORD and MARY BARTON are two of her shorter oes. NORTH AND SOUTH is probably her opus but that is a lot wordier.
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There are quite a few good pieces of material in the list you mentioned, and I enjoyed a lot of those too (minus Of Mice and Men, I'm not big on steinbeck). Enjoying to read and write lit is what made me decide to become an English major. The problem with studying it though is that you have to narrow your field down (for example my emphasis is on Celtic Lit), so you don't get as broad a literary experience from your classes, but the quality of material does go up.
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