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Hell, I get twitchy when whole pages in are in italics. All that implied emphasis just keeps mounting in the form of a visual crescendo with no end in site. Anxiety ensues!! Probably just me. I did find moments of enjoyment in Infinite Jest, though. Just not enough for me to say I "enjoyed" the whole book. Last edited by DiapDealer; 02-07-2022 at 04:49 PM. |
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I was assigned Moby Dick the winter I was in tenth grade. The test was coming up the next day, and I was doomed. That night, a raging blizzard ensured that school would be closed the next day. There I was, snowed in, just me and Moby Dick.
I got a "B" on the test. Even after giving up on the whole thing when I encountered an entire chapter on "The Whiteness of the Whale." "That whale was SO white...." HOW ... WHITE ... WAS IT??? |
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Another book I read that I thought was just awful is A Passage to India by E. M. Forster. It was awful from the first chapter. The writing is terrible.
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I wonder if it were an assigned book if I would have liked it as much. |
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I can think of another couple of authors. Theodore Dreiser certainly leaned to the turgid, even with his best-known books, Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy. No matter, I was quite taken by him when I was in high school and read his entire oeuvre, even the ones no one’s ever heard of. I wouldn’t do it now. Sister Carrie might hold up, but I can’t imagine the rest do.
Another that I suspect hasn’t held up and is unreadable now is Thomas Wolfe. Not Tom, although I suspect a case could be made for his books too, except for The Right Stuff.. Anyway, Thomas. Does anyone read Look Homeward, Angel anymore? And it was downhill from there. The also-ran in Max Perkins’ stable of famous writers and the others have already made the list. |
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Speaking of language. I do not see how people from the UK can say that their version of English is the true version when Olde English is the true version and everything else is something different.
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Could we stay on topic, please, within reason and not chase ancient hares?
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