Still stand by these as horrible.oh, gosh, I don't know....
GRAPES OF WRATH --
On The Road
Old Man and the Sea
Wuthering Heights
Brideshead Revisited
The Last of the Mohicans
The Scarlet Letter
Moby Dick
cAtcher in the Rye
Red Badge of Courage
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Still stand by these as horrible.oh, gosh, I don't know....
GRAPES OF WRATH --
On The Road
Old Man and the Sea
Wuthering Heights
Brideshead Revisited
The Last of the Mohicans
The Scarlet Letter
Moby Dick
cAtcher in the Rye
Red Badge of Courage
...thank you my friend..."Right Turn Clyde."
Watch your six heading out west sir. I've toured the Stanley House a couple of times and I wanted to move to Estes Park once I visited there. Nice town, slow pace and I never got tired of looking westward into the Rockies.
Heart of Darkness
Waiting for Godot
Brave New World
But the one I hated the most is The Stranger. Read previous rants about being forced to read it twice in French and once in English. Oh, the misery. I should have dropped the French class the second time around I was forced to read it, and burned the book.
I did too.I quite liked Brave New World, but then I like dystopian stories so there you go...
And I loved The Scarlet letter, The Last of the Mohicans (that's one of my childhood books, I even bought The Deer Slayer recently) and Wuthering Heights. One person's dislike is another one's favorite, eh?I did too.
Yikes. Three I DIDN'T like. hahahaha! Yep. Variety makes the world go 'round.And I loved The Scarlet letter, The Last of the Mohicans (that's one of my childhood books, I even bought The Deer Slayer recently) and Wuthering Heights. One person's dislike is another one's favorite, eh?
....and despite Henry Jame's "great reputation".....I attempted to read "The Jolly Corner" and after two pages-hurled it into a corner.....OMG, talk about dryer than a popcorn fart!.....he might've turned somebody's screw-but it wasn't mine.....Most classics I had to read in high school and college, I didn't like. Some of them - like Lord of the Rings - I read again on my own time and found some real enjoyable nuggets that I didn't appreciate before, no longer having the burden of a reading mandate attached.
Still, I cannot imagine enjoying The Scarlet Letter.
While I did like Grapes of Wrath quite a bit, there are other works by Steinbeck that leave me floundering. Cannery Row comes to mind.
I'm afraid I cannot appreciate the finer points (if there are any) of James Fenimore Cooper after reading Mark Twain's critique of him.
With a few exceptions, Dickens is a wearying slog.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitz.....snore........and we're back...F. Scott Fizgerald. I've tried this one several times since high school and made it to about page 50 on one of those attempts. Pretty much bored to tears on every try.
That is the one Fitzgerald book I actually liked. It takes all kinds.The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitz.....snore........and we're back...F. Scott Fizgerald. I've tried this one several times since high school and made it to about page 50 on one of those attempts. Pretty much bored to tears on every try.
I really liked The Great Gatsby, but I also think that had a lot to do with when I read it. I was in a spree of reading classics. Determined to read them. Most of the classics I was reading bored me to tears that by the time I got to Gatsby, I actually thought, "Yay! a book with interesting characters, situations and a story line!"The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitz.....snore........and we're back...F. Scott Fizgerald. I've tried this one several times since high school and made it to about page 50 on one of those attempts. Pretty much bored to tears on every try.
I really liked The Great Gatsby, but I also think that had a lot to do with when I read it. I was in a spree of reading classics. Determined to read them. Most of the classics I was reading bored me to tears that by the time I got to Gatsby, I actually thought, "Yay! a book with interesting characters, situations and a story line!"
I will speak only for myself on this next thing. maturity. I think how I took in information by any given classic had a lot to do with where I was on the road of maturity and wisdom. The older I get, the more I can understand them and appreciate the journey.
Slaughter House 5, couldnt get through it
Catcher In The Rye, didnt finish chapter 1
Lolita , I tryed very hard with this one..but no dice
the guys writing style was "all over the place' hated it.
name the "supposed" classics that you didnt like at all.
(leave out Shakespear[that goes with out saying])