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02-07-2010, 11:18 AM
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#61 | | Junior Member
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Catcher in The Rye
I really don't care about some angsty teenage boy complaining for 200+ pages
Anything by John Steinbeck
I don't feel like checking myself into a psych ward for severe depression.
The Scarlet Letter
It goes on and on and on and on and on and on and you get the picture
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02-07-2010, 11:22 AM
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#62 | | Junior Member
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^thank you! I hate Steinbeck. I'm down with depressing books - I enjoyed The Metamorphosis, Kafka's even more depressing one where the father drowns the son for not inviting his friend to his wedding, The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, A Doll's House, and Julius Caesar, but Steinbeck's characters are so stupid. I could care less if they live or not (not to be mean when it comes to Of Mice and Men. No one in that book was likeable). His books only have like 2 major characters anyway, but even they are annoying.
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02-07-2010, 11:45 AM
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holy**** you guys depress me. Listing joyce, homer, hamlet, and great gatsby, i can't really do much other than assure you that these are not overrated
Why can't someone rag on the Beat authors? ~_~
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02-07-2010, 11:47 AM
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02-07-2010, 11:54 AM
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#65 | | Junior Member
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The Scarlet Letter, for sure. Only book throughout high school I have not been able to finish. I mean, yeah great message and everything, but Hawthorne could've wrote it in a more appealing manner...
And Shakespeare. I'm just not that fond of his poetry OR plays.
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02-07-2010, 11:54 AM
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#66 | | New Member
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lol why would you blame Jane Austen for Wuthering Heights??? :b
| Perhaps, I didn't make it clear.
I thought Jane Austen was a much better writer than Emily Bronte and Pride&Prejudice was a much better book than Wuthering Heights. If I had never read Wuthering Heights, I might have hated Jane Austen more. But Pride&Prejudice was bearable while Wuthering Heights was HORRID. And they are similar novels in the English/Romantic Love Story way. So...Jane Austen>Emily Bronte. So I don't hate P&P.
^^While the angst-ing did get a bit annoying, that was not the whole point of it....I still love the book. Quote: |
I thought it was good anyway, if all the Cathies were confusing and kind of boring, hte other characters made up for it
| I honestly wanted to kill EVERY CHARACTER in that book. I hate them all, hated their whining, and if they were real people, I might have to stab them numerous times (obvs exaggeration). But, gosh, those characters are awful.
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02-07-2010, 11:54 AM
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#67 | | New Member
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Farewell to Arms
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02-07-2010, 12:00 PM
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#68 | | Junior Member
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Why can't someone rag on the Beat authors? ~_~
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I honestly wanted to kill EVERY CHARACTER in that book. I hate them all, hated their whining, and if they were real people, I might have to stab them numerous times (obvs exaggeration). But, gosh, those characters are awful.
| I thought the drunk guy (Hindley?) and the Scottish servant guy (Joseph?) were cool. Heathcliff wasn't bad either.
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02-07-2010, 12:46 PM
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#69 | | Junior Member
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Oh god yes. Farewell to Arms was absolutely awful. There were too many characters for my liking. He also would spend about 3 pages describing the leaves of a tree or some pointless crap like that. That book has put me off Hemingway for life. Never again shall I read anything written by him.
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02-07-2010, 01:06 PM
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#70 | | New Member
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^^Joseph was unbearble. NO ONE COULD POSSIBLY UNDERSTAND HIM. Heathcliff sucked so much, gosh what a stupidass whiner and manipulative dbag.
^A Farewell to Arms: unnecessarily morbid and I swear I kept on reading the same ten pages sfor like 7 straight days...
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02-07-2010, 01:09 PM
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#71 | | Senior Member
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- hamlet [because everyone DIES! how depressing!?!?]
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02-07-2010, 01:10 PM
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#72 | | New Member
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^I'm pretty sure that's not what makes Hamlet great. Hamlet has actually been my favorite Shakespeare so far...
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02-07-2010, 01:11 PM
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#73 | | Junior Member
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Joseph was hilarious. he made me lol
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02-07-2010, 01:13 PM
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#74 | | New Member
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^I'm sorry, that book was just painful to read. Joseph certainly didn't help. He was like "OMG! YOU ARE GOING TO HELL! OMG BUT IM A SERVANT! DEVIL DEVIL BIBLE" except in some horrid language that only he could understand.
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02-07-2010, 01:14 PM
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#75 | | Junior Member
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Originally Posted by joseph from wuthering heights "omg! You are going to hell! Omg but im a servant! Devil devil bible" | 8] .
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