02-22-2022, 04:50 AM | #106 |
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I loved War and Peace, I've read it three times. Excellent book. The one I really didn't care too much for was Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. That was quite a slog to get through. The coincidences that occurred were also a bit unbelievable. A good work no doubt, I just found it tiring. I mean about 70 pages for the battle of Waterloo with just some tangential relevance to the story with the Thenardiers and Marius' father was a bit much. I actually pulled the rip cord there once, then a few years later went back and slogged through the whole book.
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Yeah, don't like Hardy. Long-winded, like most of the stuff from that period. |
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02-22-2022, 05:02 AM | #108 | |
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But those old classics are going to be tough to hang with. Particularly with all the long-winded sentences and description. |
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02-22-2022, 05:16 AM | #109 | |
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I found Tess particularly hard because Tess herself was a victim. I appreciate the point of her situation, and why it is a feminist classic. But as a story, I just wanted her to get a rifle and shoot someone. I found her passivity frustrating. |
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02-22-2022, 10:20 AM | #110 | |
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I have often wondered, when so many people tend to see a book as a slog, what kind of mind it takes to read it and think "This would make a great Broadway musical!" and be right! |
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02-22-2022, 10:45 AM | #111 | |
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Or better yet, Jude the Obscure! The hit title song, "Don't Leave me Hanging...." :-) Hitch |
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In particular, I remember the example of Les Miserables and the wish to cut out the section on the Parisian sewers among others. I think The Count of Monte Cristo was another example. |
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I agree, you can sympathize with Tess, but her passivity is maddening. Last edited by Victoria; 02-22-2022 at 02:26 PM. |
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02-22-2022, 06:04 PM | #115 |
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FWIW I thought name of the rose a great book. But everything after by Eco, nah... Its waffle.
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02-25-2022, 05:25 AM | #118 | |
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I don't know if it counts as a classic, but the book where I had to admit defeat was Catch-22. I got a quarter to half way into it and ended up throwing it in the waste bin. I kept waiting for it to make sense, it never did, and frustration won out.
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Things that don't make sense that are firmly entrenched is the point of the book. I read it when I was young, liked it a lot, and am not lying. |
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