Not to finish Fellowship of The Ring is a sin sin sin... well as a king nerd I'll have to do something about this... but I don't know what... so I'll watch tv for now.
Heart of Darkness -Joseph Conrad
Most difficult book I ever had to read.
I barely got through the first Chapter of Hemingways For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Not to finish Fellowship of The Ring is a sin sin sin... well as a king nerd I'll have to do something about this... but I don't know what... so I'll watch tv for now.
Well, I finished Lord of the Rings, but I didn't like it...
The cartoons were much better, frankly.
I loved Moby Dick -- a true contender for Greatest American Novel.
One book I never got through, however, was The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. Somehow, I managed to compose an A+ paper on it for Dr. Hussman's "20th Century American Novel" undergraduate course. But I don't think I read past page 100 (maybe Dr. Hussman didn't either).
take care
---jones()
You're all insane. Pride and Prejudice is marvelous, Heart Of Darkness is frankly brilliant and we don't even need to touch on the best book of the century-ness that is Tolkien's masterwork.
*nods in fangirl fervor*
Don't beat her, she's young. There's also that witch thing...
I also won't read Harry Potter because I'm just not interested in those books...
Pretty much, yes. I haven't found a "great" American novelist yet, Branflakes aside, that I really enjoy. I especially dislike Steinbeck. I may not have taken a comprehensive survey of the area however and thus I shall not write off all American novelists just yet. Still, you'll never get me to enjoy Hemingway.
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ August 18, 2003 01:14 AM: Message edited by: Enlanra ]</font>
<font size="2" face="Comic sans ms, Helvetica, sans-serif">It is. Especially considering English wasn't Conrads native language. It was just very difficult reading. For me anyway. The teacher who'd assigned it explained it like this. As the protaganist struggles through the jungle and their own insanity, you as the reader, struggle through the text.Originally posted by Enlanra:
Heart Of Darkness is frankly brilliant
Same teacher also assigned one of Hemingway's short stories. Hills Like White Elephants. That was fun to analyze.
I faked my way through Salingers Catcher In The Rye using Cliff Notes in high school. I've always meant to go back and actually read it. Read the book I mean. Not actually go back to high school.
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ August 18, 2003 04:34 AM: Message edited by: JaceSan ]</font>
Personally, I like a lot of American novelists, it's just that they all write Science Fiction or Fantasy.
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And I have problems reading novels written before 1945 or so. Not exactly sure why. Heinlein is pretty much the only exception that rule of thumb. Well, possibly CS Lewis, too, I really don't remember when he published.
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