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No matter how much you tell yourself 'it must be good because it's a classic!' you just couldn't wade through it. Maybe it was too depressing, too olde worlde, too complicated or just plain boring.....
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You are brave as some of these I would not even pick up as they appear to be so daunting!
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Laurie wrote: "HA! Where do I begin??"Aloha Laurie:
I found two on the list I could never get through. :)
A couple weren't hard at all and were quite good, too, for me. Specifically, "On the Beach" and "A Tale of Two Cities."
James Joyce and William Faulkner come to mind.
Autumn♥♥ wrote: "P. wrote: "A couple weren't hard at all and were quite good, too, for me. Specifically, "On the Beach" and "A Tale of Two Cities.""I believe I read On The Beach twice but was unable to get into ..."
Autumn♥♥ wrote: "P. wrote: "A couple weren't hard at all and were quite good, too, for me. Specifically, "On the Beach" and "A Tale of Two Cities.""
I believe I read On The Beach twice but was unable to get into ..."
P.J. wrote: "James Joyce and William Faulkner come to mind.
I'll give Lucifer's Hammer a look.
P. wrote: "A couple weren't hard at all and were quite good, too, for me. Specifically, "On the Beach" and "A Tale of Two Cities.""We were forced to read "A Tale of Two Cities" in the 9th grade or I would've never stuck with that one.
P.J. wrote: "James Joyce and William Faulkner come to mind."I wish I could remember the Faulkner book I tried to read once but it's been so long ago.
I'm not even going to attempt reading Joyce.
Laurie wrote: "P.J. wrote: "James Joyce and William Faulkner come to mind."I wish I could remember the Faulkner book I tried to read once but it's been so long ago.
I'm not even going to attempt reading Joyce."
I read a couple of little James Joyce books just so I could say I read it. He was mostly boring but will recommend the one I read to you as it wasn't too bad. I don't know what the big deal could be! Mostly for people who love Ireland I think.
Autumn♥♥ wrote: "Laurie wrote: "P.J. wrote: "James Joyce and William Faulkner come to mind."I wish I could remember the Faulkner book I tried to read once but it's been so long ago.
I'm not even going to atte..."
I believe it's his book "Ulysses" that is either loved or abhorred. His other books might be good but I've never gotten around to reading them.
I hear all these rave reviews about how great a book is and I become very curious to see what all the fuss was about. I'm too impatient to tolerate the "stream of consciousness" style of writing anyway. I'm busy and I don't have time to figure out what the author is talking about, but that's just me.
Some of Joyce's books are readable, but "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake" are not. Both have been made into semi-intelligible movies.
Thanks for the information P.J. and I think I would prefer to watch the movie instead of reading the books.
The Time Traveler was simply magnificent!!! Idk how anyone could pick that one, but that's just my opinion :)
King James bible is in there twice. Some of the books on my list were ones I couldn't get through in HS, but did happily later on(David Copperfield) and others WILL(I promise) be read in full at some date(The Iliad).
Dan Poynter said that the ideal length of a book is 144 pages; the maximum is 288 pages. This is good advice for authors.
If only writers would follow those guidelines!
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