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What? Handel Send a noteboard - 06/09/2009 08:28:17 PM


Similarly, I am on a personal crusade to have all books by the Brontes removed from required reading in all schools, everywhere. At a very minimum, Wuthering Heights, perhaps one of the worst "classics" written in the English language.

Wuthering Heights is the most insanely passionate novel ever written. I've never read anything like it and it remains among my top favorite books. Of course everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but in my own, a more passionate novel does not exist, or if it does I have yet to find it. It might be overly dramatic and at times down right insane, but Emily Bronte's writing was powerful and very effective.
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So...what books DON'T you like? Сталин - 06/09/2009 04:57:28 AM 1809 Views
I have a couple I really disliked Brian - 06/09/2009 05:28:38 AM 1216 Views
I agree. Seriana Sedai - 06/09/2009 05:49:28 AM 1210 Views
Ohhhh quotefail! Brian - 06/09/2009 05:54:02 AM 1269 Views
I saw that. Seriana Sedai - 06/09/2009 06:03:29 AM 1097 Views
You actually read Monkey Bridge? Сталин - 06/09/2009 02:47:39 PM 1112 Views
Haha, I'm surprised anyone has heard of it here Brian - 06/09/2009 04:43:59 PM 1090 Views
Some examples Ellestra - 07/09/2009 08:25:37 PM 1026 Views
You think Battlefield Earth is bad, try reading his Mission Earth series. *NM* Brian - 08/09/2009 02:09:22 AM 629 Views
I read those in high school. I liked them. Stupid comic escapism. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 08/09/2009 02:18:31 AM 660 Views
I read them when I was in high school too...at least the first 3 or 4 Brian - 08/09/2009 02:47:12 AM 1141 Views
Re: I read them when I was in high school too...at least the first 3 or 4 TaskmasterJack - 08/09/2009 04:18:07 PM 1177 Views
Re: I read them when I was in high school too...at least the first 3 or 4 Brian - 08/09/2009 06:26:00 PM 1093 Views
No, thanks. I think all my masochism got spent on Terry Goodkind *NM* Ellestra - 08/09/2009 07:25:41 PM 645 Views
Political polemics, for one. Utopian novels, for another. Haggard - 06/09/2009 05:29:54 AM 1023 Views
People always recommend I read Ayn Rand Сталин - 06/09/2009 02:51:25 PM 1187 Views
I started The Fountainhead. It was pretty dreadful. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/09/2009 08:44:31 PM 650 Views
I don't have enough hours in the day to detail this or something even worse Larry - 06/09/2009 05:45:35 AM 1180 Views
The Wanderer's Tale by David Bilsborough. Craig - 06/09/2009 06:24:49 AM 1132 Views
YES! Jessie - 07/09/2009 06:10:29 AM 1041 Views
Oh, a lot of things. But I wonder. rebelaessedai - 06/09/2009 07:00:34 AM 1166 Views
Re: Oh, a lot of things. But I wonder. Brian - 06/09/2009 07:05:51 AM 1108 Views
! rebelaessedai - 06/09/2009 06:50:42 PM 1126 Views
Re: ! Brian - 06/09/2009 07:22:43 PM 1047 Views
Well, I do plan on reading it. rebelaessedai - 07/09/2009 03:38:26 AM 1071 Views
In fantasy, Vellum and Ink were terrible Сталин - 06/09/2009 02:54:05 PM 1093 Views
Duly noted! rebelaessedai - 06/09/2009 06:51:22 PM 1078 Views
Oh plenty Geoff - 06/09/2009 09:37:23 AM 1144 Views
I hated Wuthering Heights more than Jane Eyre, but I hated Jane Eyre, too. *NM* Сталин - 06/09/2009 02:54:49 PM 678 Views
I was never forced to read Wuthering heights Geoff - 06/09/2009 03:44:59 PM 1136 Views
I disliked both as well... more than disliked. *NM* Jacob - 09/09/2009 08:59:37 PM 710 Views
Well... Jacob - 09/09/2009 09:01:18 PM 1102 Views
I like all books I have ever read. jh - 06/09/2009 12:09:51 PM 1184 Views
You hated The Brothers Karamazov? Сталин - 06/09/2009 02:59:16 PM 1103 Views
Umm, yeah. jh - 06/09/2009 03:28:30 PM 1251 Views
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. In Ye Olde English, it's harder to translate than ancient Greek. *NM* IndigoAjah - 06/09/2009 05:07:49 PM 655 Views
Oh man, the prologue to the Wife of Bath was horrible. Brian - 06/09/2009 05:11:39 PM 1040 Views
The Canterbury Tales are not Old English. They are Middle English. Сталин - 06/09/2009 05:59:59 PM 1219 Views
Indeed, translating old english, and reading middle english are very very different Brian - 06/09/2009 07:11:13 PM 1095 Views
Edit: ignore this, what I had before was blatantly untrue *NM* IndigoAjah - 07/09/2009 12:11:37 AM 664 Views
As I'm translating some ancient Greek right now, I call bullshit on that. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/09/2009 08:45:46 PM 618 Views
EDIT: Last post was basically equally bullsh*t IndigoAjah - 07/09/2009 12:17:01 AM 1091 Views
I was going to, but I felt I had already been pedantic enough. *NM* Сталин - 07/09/2009 02:34:04 AM 667 Views
Jane Eyre. Chas - 06/09/2009 05:13:27 PM 1107 Views
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel AgentOrange - 06/09/2009 05:58:39 PM 1116 Views
Must remember this. *NM* rebelaessedai - 06/09/2009 06:53:08 PM 649 Views
What do you mean? *NM* AgentOrange - 07/09/2009 10:43:58 AM 664 Views
Re: The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel Nolan - 06/09/2009 08:08:21 PM 1128 Views
well it was the best book in the series *NM* random thoughts - 14/09/2009 04:37:27 PM 592 Views
Catcher in the Rye and Heart of Darkness, among the "classics." *NM* Master Radishes - 06/09/2009 08:15:12 PM 648 Views
Ooh! I second Catcher and the Rye. What a piece of garbage. everynametaken - 06/09/2009 08:20:00 PM 973 Views
I couldn't finish Heart of Darkness random thoughts - 14/09/2009 04:39:00 PM 1141 Views
Vellum by Hal Duncan and The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson everynametaken - 06/09/2009 08:16:12 PM 1178 Views
Hm. Novo - 06/09/2009 11:20:40 PM 1081 Views
Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Vodalus - 06/09/2009 08:24:07 PM 1091 Views
I liked a Portrait of the Artist, personally, though the (lack of real) punctuation grated *NM* IndigoAjah - 07/09/2009 12:18:50 AM 586 Views
I didn't mind Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog...I mean Man Сталин - 07/09/2009 02:40:14 AM 1057 Views
Shame on you. Those books are truly Great. Especially Portrait. Joker - 12/09/2009 10:52:40 PM 1105 Views
What? Handel - 06/09/2009 08:28:17 PM 1249 Views
My problem with Wuthering Heights was the characters. Darth_Katie - 06/09/2009 09:40:24 PM 1069 Views
Re: My problem with Wuthering Heights was the characters. Handel - 07/09/2009 12:27:44 AM 1107 Views
Wait...you're a guy? Сталин - 07/09/2009 02:44:27 AM 1114 Views
Indeed. Handel - 07/09/2009 03:01:59 AM 1096 Views
Stars in His Pocket Like Grains of Sand random thoughts - 14/09/2009 04:41:16 PM 1280 Views
Oh, and maybe it was lost on me, but I never got much joy out of War and Peace IndigoAjah - 07/09/2009 12:22:48 AM 1004 Views
War and Peace is pretty straightforward Сталин - 07/09/2009 02:43:25 AM 1146 Views
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell. Danu - 07/09/2009 12:54:41 AM 1139 Views
Shame! Shaaaaame! *NM* Craig - 07/09/2009 03:06:55 AM 608 Views
Jessie - 07/09/2009 06:13:26 AM 1038 Views
I'm not sure. Danu - 20/09/2009 04:19:52 PM 1387 Views
It probably doesn't help but Craig - 20/09/2009 06:17:34 PM 1470 Views
Don't flame me for saying it.... Erith - 07/09/2009 04:49:40 AM 1202 Views
Nah. rebelaessedai - 07/09/2009 05:18:23 AM 1043 Views
For me it was the other way around. jh - 07/09/2009 07:38:35 AM 1051 Views
You know, I kind of feel that way, too. Erith - 08/09/2009 03:40:58 AM 1067 Views
One last one: Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley *NM* Brian - 07/09/2009 07:44:48 AM 654 Views
*NM* Novo - 07/09/2009 10:33:08 AM 616 Views
Awww man, I thought we got rid of you! *NM* Brian - 07/09/2009 06:05:30 PM 587 Views
Have you ever seen the mini-series? Darth_Katie - 07/09/2009 05:42:45 PM 1120 Views
Never have I seen such good acting in such a dreadful movie/mini-series. Legolas - 07/09/2009 05:44:47 PM 1019 Views
I love really really bad TV movies sometimes....they make for lots of laughter Brian - 07/09/2009 06:06:38 PM 997 Views
Actually, you might like it. As in, think it's good. Legolas - 07/09/2009 06:11:14 PM 1041 Views
I had a couple of issues with the book that I could easily see being removed from the movie Brian - 07/09/2009 07:01:40 PM 987 Views
Yeah, you might like it then. Legolas - 07/09/2009 07:20:04 PM 1044 Views
A Confederacy of Dunces. nossy - 08/09/2009 06:13:59 AM 1121 Views
Crap. That's two people now. Chas - 09/09/2009 01:42:40 AM 1003 Views
Don't go by what I say. nossy - 09/09/2009 03:11:17 AM 1088 Views
Anyone with more than half a brain wouldn't. *NM* Brian - 09/09/2009 03:49:34 AM 658 Views
This sounds like a redshirt mission. *NM* Chas - 14/09/2009 01:12:17 AM 650 Views
Re: Hardy Cockatiel of Doom - 09/09/2009 02:42:39 AM 969 Views
Aw. I liked Confederacy. *NM* Ghavrel - 09/09/2009 06:15:10 AM 614 Views
That probably makes sense for someone from the area though. nossy - 09/09/2009 08:02:23 PM 1061 Views
Oh, I forgot to mention Brave New World. Craig - 08/09/2009 06:26:29 AM 995 Views
Wha? nossy - 08/09/2009 03:26:29 PM 1137 Views
Wha. Craig - 08/09/2009 06:43:12 PM 988 Views
*stands and applauds * Here here *NM* M & M Maddy - 08/09/2009 08:19:53 PM 680 Views
The Road andOld Man and the Sea bme - 08/09/2009 04:16:11 PM 1014 Views
Time to give up your man card. *NM* Joker - 12/09/2009 10:53:56 PM 631 Views
The great Gatsby and Romeo and Juliett. M & M Maddy - 08/09/2009 08:24:23 PM 1055 Views
Word! Geoff - 08/09/2009 08:41:27 PM 1153 Views
Hitchickers guide to the galaxy and The Good earth by Pearl S. Buck Murtach74 - 09/09/2009 01:07:01 AM 1095 Views
Ah, man. I love both those books. *NM* nossy - 09/09/2009 08:08:00 PM 662 Views
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