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Post by Rainbow Blight on Jul 10, 2005 8:51:04 GMT -5
I have. So has my former English teacher. So has everybody in my entire AP English Literature class. I don't think there was anybody in the class that liked it, I don't even think the teacher liked it. This book was called "Heart of Darkness," what the movie "Apocalypse Now" was based on. Turning every page was like a goddamn nightmare to me, some people said that it almost drove them to suicide. I know it's a classic and all, but between the boring imagery and the paragraphs that span about 10-20 pages each, those 150 or so pages of the book felt like 1000 pages. Has anyone actually read it and liked it?
On an even sadder note, my father has recently taken up reading Arabic literature (untranslated). He was telling me how he put one of the books down after twenty pages because it spent all those pages talking about one tree. I started reading it too and I think it may have appeared to be even more boring than "Heart of Darkness." I'm sure it's a classic, again, but there are some books that literally make you want to rip your eyes out or wish you lacked the ability to see.
Discuss.
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Post by Katie on Jul 10, 2005 8:51:53 GMT -5
Bloody hell yes. Uhm, it's called Brimstone...and I don't remember who wrote it.
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Post by Rainbow Blight on Jul 10, 2005 8:58:21 GMT -5
Woah, if it's as bad as Heart of Darkness or that 200-page book that describes one goddamn tree, I'd be afraid to know what form of psycho wrote it.
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Post by Katie on Jul 10, 2005 9:00:18 GMT -5
...a...tree?
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Post by Rainbow Blight on Jul 10, 2005 10:25:32 GMT -5
Yes, a tree. A goddamn tree. Twenty-something pages about a tree, I can't blame my father for putting the book down shortly after beginning it, this is something that he rarely does, as do I. We always make it a point to finish books we start reading, but when the author spends that much time discussing one particular tree, you have to think that he is suffering from dendrophilia. |
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Post by Masaro on Jul 10, 2005 23:49:10 GMT -5
I can say without a doubt I hate Lord of the Flies, The Giver and books on such a premise of creating the ideal society, I honestly haven't been able to stand any of the books in that genre aside from two, Brave New World (Huxley) due to the fact that it's just so fucking twisted and The Starchild Trilogy because it's simply too well written to hate.
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Post by Rainbow Blight on Jul 11, 2005 0:18:34 GMT -5
Hm, I've met lots of people who didn't like Lord of the Flies (can't imagine why, I kinda liked it) but I had yet to meet anyone who didn't like The Giver. I haven't read Brave New World before, though, although I'm told it's good and so I might pick it up sometime.
If you haven't read Ayn Rand's short novella, "Anthem," you should check it out. It's similar to The Giver, but I think it's better written and more interesting.
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Post by rocker on Jul 11, 2005 10:55:17 GMT -5
What about 1984 or Fahrenheit 451?
I personally love those types of books. The Giver I read in grade 6 and it started it all for me. I have never read Lord of the Flies, but watched the movie and enjoyed it. And Brave New World I studied in grade 11 and enjoyed it alot. We had debates on what made a utopia and if the book's society was infact a utopia or not...fun fun.
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Post by amiee on Jul 11, 2005 12:22:46 GMT -5
I hated Lord of the Flies when I first read it, but I re-read it and I quite like it now.
I really, really disliked Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." I hate that I had to study that book for around 5 weeks.
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Post by Masaro on Jul 11, 2005 13:41:29 GMT -5
It's just the fact that the majority of these people in the so called perfect societies can't think for themselves, they just give into mob mentality in Lord of the Flies and in most others I've read are just too stupid to attempt to throw off the chains they're, such as in Animal Farm (which I disliked alot as well) in aside from the hero of the story, if it even has a hero. Preahps it's an underlying fear of sorts *shrugs* As for Ninteen Eighty Four, I didn't dislike it as much as the others, but it's still far from being on my good list.
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Post by Rainbow Blight on Jul 11, 2005 14:15:56 GMT -5
I really, really disliked Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." I hate that I had to study that book for around 5 weeks. Hahaha, I read that book for AP English Literature this year too. It wasn't so much that I didn't like it, but it just pissed me off how everyone treated Shylock and how the book made him out to be the villain. After watching the movie I sympathized with him even moreso; in my opinion he should've gotten his pound of flesh. |
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Post by bushspretzel on Jul 11, 2005 18:35:09 GMT -5
I strongly disliked The Pearl when I had to read it, and although I never got to read the entire length of 1984, the first two parts were slightly unappealing, to say the least.
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Post by bigguy15 on Jul 14, 2005 19:27:34 GMT -5
Hated the book Killer Angels
based on Civil War stories(idk)
hated it
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Post by Rainbow Blight on Jul 14, 2005 20:26:19 GMT -5
So I read a little bit of that Arabic book about that one tree, and goddammit, my father was right. Seriously. Every goddamn paragraph I read started with "And the tree was..." Goddamn, it made me feel suicidal.
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Post by hndead on Oct 6, 2005 0:54:15 GMT -5
Heart of DarknessDiscuss. I think it is a very interesting book. It shows how fucking far froo humanity humans can stray. Read it a while ago, but if you didn't like the movie, then boo. Best movie ever, or one of them. You read this? Fucking weird shit, I come across the internet and end up on some random board and someone mentions the Starchild Trilogy. Its a good book, but I didn't think it was popular sci-fi, maybe I was wrong, who knows. Anyways, weird. |
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