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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad Moby Dick - Herman Melville I finished the first, but never made it to the end of the other two |
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Another book to add to the list is Mein Kempf.
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Does anyone claim to like that?
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02-12-2022, 11:42 AM | #82 |
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02-13-2022, 01:39 AM | #83 |
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I read Heart of Darkness, but I know that's one I would have been better off reading in a discussion group.
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02-13-2022, 11:49 AM | #84 |
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I'm going to have to go with Life of Pi, for the crime of abusing the unreliable narrator trope beyond the limits of human endurance.
(By the way, apropos of other books mentioned here, it's always been my position that The Road is nothing more than a post-modern retelling of The Old Man and the Sea.) As far as "the Classics" go, anyone who claims they actually enjoyed Last of the Mohicans is the ultimate poseur. Last edited by curtw; 02-13-2022 at 11:53 AM. |
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Oddly I've not read that, but his "The Pilot" is a quite good adventure yarn on the English Coast. The real guy story is based on was from Scotland, joined USA Navy, captured a British ship in Belfast Lough at anchor near Carrickfergus (Belfast was tiny then so it was Carrickfergus Lough then) and later he was in the Russian Imperial Navy. British regarded him as a Pirate.
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As to Steinbeck, I want to read the rest of his. I loved Of Mice and Men and Grapes of Wrath, but meh on The Pearl A classic I detest for every reason possible and genuinely don't get the appeal or lasting effect was a newer classic, Where the Red Fern grows *shudders* I'm usually pickier with melodramatic Victorian prose and found Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde disappointing, but I was surprised that I absolutely loved Frankenstein, and many seem to feel the opposite. Dracula has some boring parts but I loved the first and last quarter. It was fun re-reading it on audiobook production. Oh, and the Thornbirds! I hated that book and am surprised so many list it as a favorite. Last edited by Paperbackstash; 02-13-2022 at 06:21 PM. |
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I don’t think The Thorn Birds qualifies in this category; it’s long, but it’s not difficult nor especially boring, unless sweeping family sagas aren’t your thing. They’re not mine, but TB doesn’t seem worse or duller than most; the contrary, in fact.
A factoid that amuses me is that The Thorn Birds and Love Story were written within a few years of each other in New Haven, Conn. while their respective authors were employed at Yale. Was it something in the water? |
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I read The Thorn Birds many years ago. I don't remember being fond of it but also don't recall it being difficult to read in the way that some of the other books discussed here would be.
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Guess it's just me with The Thorn Birds, but I found it dull throughout, flat, and a difficult read. Hated the writing.
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