Deleted
Deleted Member
@Deleted
Posts: 0
Likes:
|
Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2018 22:42:37 GMT
Or didn't get.
Slaughterhouse-Five. I like some of Vonnegut's other work but I just couldn't grasp what he was going for here at all, it didn't work for me.
|
|
|
Post by PreachCaleb on Jan 18, 2018 22:49:15 GMT
Still haven't finished A Confederacy of Dunces.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
@Deleted
Posts: 0
Likes:
|
Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2018 23:45:40 GMT
I did not like To The Lighthouse at all.
I haven't read Heart of Darkness since college, so maybe I should give that one another chance, but I thought it was a dreadful read back then.
|
|
|
Post by novastar6 on Jan 19, 2018 0:15:54 GMT
I couldn't make sense of Slaughterhouse-Five either, but somehow I still liked it.
Couldn't get into Lord of the Flies at all, couldn't make heads or tails of it, completely missed the part about there was a nuclear war and that's how these kids wound up stranded.
|
|
mmexis
Sophomore
@mmexis
Posts: 861
Likes: 732
|
Post by mmexis on Jan 19, 2018 4:04:08 GMT
anything by Tolkien, anything by Virginia Woolf. In her case, don't like stream of consciousness.
|
|
|
Post by bravomailer on Jan 19, 2018 4:50:06 GMT
A Confederacy of Dunces
The World According to Garp
|
|
|
Post by darknessfish on Jan 19, 2018 9:40:24 GMT
Julian Barnes - The Sense of An Ending Ian McEwan - Enduring Love
Both authors have a great command of the English language, and can write absolutely beautiful prose. Both authors write as if they've never seen two people interact in real life.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
@Deleted
Posts: 0
Likes:
|
Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2018 14:36:48 GMT
Slaughterhouse Five is a work of genius.
I didn't dislike "The Great Gatsby" but I was certainly perplexed by the immense praise surrounding it.
|
|
|
Post by sostie on Jan 19, 2018 15:07:01 GMT
Catcher In The Rye The Naked Lunch Zen & The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
@Deleted
Posts: 0
Likes:
|
Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2018 16:04:01 GMT
anything by Tolkien, anything by Virginia Woolf. In her case, don't like stream of consciousness. I have loved Kerouac's stream-of-consciousness, but I could not digest Woolf's.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
@Deleted
Posts: 0
Likes:
|
Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2018 16:59:53 GMT
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
|
|
|
Post by Terrapin Station on Jan 19, 2018 17:09:43 GMT
The majority of them, especially since realist drama is so praised.
I'm also not a fan of writing that's too poetic and "roundabout"/not straightforward. I don't want to play a game where I've got to figure out what the fnck someone is talking about.
Maybe the one I hated the most, though, was James Joyce's Ulysses.
|
|
|
Post by moviebuffbrad on Jan 20, 2018 8:03:19 GMT
I found Fellowship of the Ring pretty boring. I don't think I've ever been more miserable reading a book than the Tom Bombadil chapters. The other two picked up a little, though Eowyn's writing in Return of the King was off-putting.
Also, Holden Caufield made Catcher in the Rye something of a chore.
|
|
|
Post by deembastille on Jan 20, 2018 14:54:04 GMT
THE SLAVE DANCER. the first book i read [actually was forced to read] that made me hate reading. i was in the remedial reading class and would see a specialist reading teacher and this was one of the books we were forced to read, with the specialist AND AT HOME. having a learning disability in reading comprehension and struggling with reading to begin with, this is not a book to choose, no matter what medals it won.
my mother even tried reading it to me and even she couldn't struggle through it. it was so graphic and disgusting. this was in 6th grade and we were no-where near learning about the civil war so this book was also inappropriate in terms of curriculum.
so my mother takes the book to the administration to complain and all the reading specialist could say was how it won the Newbery medal [medal specializing in distinguished contributions in American literature to children]. and even back then i knew that was a pacifying medal. they gave her and her disgustingness of a book the medal because she would have hit the roof if she didn't win.
from what i remember my mother 'won'. even now it baffles me as to why this book hasn't been banned but HOP ON POP was [because laura bush's stupid kids actually jumped on dubya! -- seriously, that was the shit reason!]
the reading specialist had other books that were equally weird but more or less okay... i remember this book where all the adults died from some epidemic or something and only children were left. it was a weird book but more or less interesting. and of course this book won an award.... god, we were pretty lenient and pacifying with our literary awards back then...
one of my favorite books is Blubber and i liked it and still like it because it is pretty accurate in terms of how bullying is. how the bullies can turn on their once-lackeys when the lackeys decide to leave the clique. and of course, this book is banned and the slave dancer and its disgustingness isn't.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
@Deleted
Posts: 0
Likes:
|
Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2018 16:07:21 GMT
Never heard of it. What was so disgusting about it?
|
|
|
Post by deembastille on Jan 20, 2018 16:17:32 GMT
Never heard of it. What was so disgusting about it? first and foremost that it is a CHILDREN'S BOOK. it won a CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AWARD for being a CHILDREN'S BOOK. it is disgusting because of how graphic it is. it is about a boy in New Orleans back in the 1800's who was noticed playing a fife on the street, just larking about when he is 'hired' to play on a slave ship for the slaves on the way back from Africa or England. the slave traders would want the slaves to be up and about and dance to keep their muscles limber while they are on transport to their 'new jobs' and this boy would provide the music for them to dance to. all this is more or less fine until you get to the pages and pages of graphic descriptions of when the kid accidentally drops his fife down the slave hold. literally pages of descriptions of what he heard, saw, SMELLED... THIS IS A CHILDREN'S BOOK. this being a children's book is bad enough. now couple it with being forced to read it while in REMEDIAL READING. now couple that with it being inappropriate for being not aligned with what the curriculum for 6th grade new york state back in 1988 was. it was a completely random book.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
@Deleted
Posts: 0
Likes:
|
Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2018 16:22:57 GMT
Never heard of it. What was so disgusting about it? first and foremost that it is a CHILDREN'S BOOK. it won a CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AWARD for being a CHILDREN'S BOOK. it is disgusting because of how graphic it is. it is about a boy in England back in the 1800's who was noticed playing a fife on the street, just larking about when he is 'hired' to play on a slave ship for the slaves. the slave traders would want the slaves to be up and about and dance to keep their muscles limber while they are on transport to their 'new jobs' and this boy would provide the music for them to dance to. all this is more or less fine until you get to the pages and pages of graphic descriptions of when the kid accidentally drops his fife down the slave hold. literally pages of descriptions of what he heard, saw, SMELLED... THIS IS A CHILDREN'S BOOK. this being a children's book is bad enough. now couple it with being forced to read it while in REMEDIAL READING. now couple that with it being inappropriate for being not aligned with what the curriculum for 6th grade new york state back in 1988 was. it was a completely random book. hmmm....sounds fitting for sixth grade reading to me, unless I'm just underestimating the graphic nature of the details. It was around the same age that I was exposed to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. There was a ton of racist abuse and violence in that book, but as a body of readers, we students were more than capable of digesting it in a healthy way.
|
|
|
Post by deembastille on Jan 20, 2018 16:37:20 GMT
you are completely missing REMEDIAL READING, 1988, and it wasn't within the curriculum to begin with. my mother couldn't stomach reading it TO me and before she became a teacher she was a personal secretary for CBS back in the 60's and early 70's.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
@Deleted
Posts: 0
Likes:
|
Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2018 16:52:53 GMT
you are completely missing REMEDIAL READING, 1988, and it wasn't within the curriculum to begin with. my mother couldn't stomach reading it TO me and before she became a teacher she was a personal secretary for CBS back in the 60's and early 70's. I didn't miss that. Is there a section worth quoting that exemplifies the disgusting graphic nature of the book? I'm only asking because I am obsessed with stories of stuff that public schools expose young children to as I have found that, indeed, a lot of it is inappropriate and I am pretty sure I'm sending my kids to private school.
|
|
|
Post by deembastille on Jan 20, 2018 18:16:25 GMT
you are completely missing REMEDIAL READING, 1988, and it wasn't within the curriculum to begin with. my mother couldn't stomach reading it TO me and before she became a teacher she was a personal secretary for CBS back in the 60's and early 70's. I didn't miss that. Is there a section worth quoting that exemplifies the disgusting graphic nature of the book? I'm only asking because I am obsessed with stories of stuff that public schools expose young children to as I have found that, indeed, a lot of it is inappropriate and I am pretty sure I'm sending my kids to private school. no. and sending your kids to private school won't help. but if this was in middle or high school there would be no problem. this was just not a book to get children who were struggling with an interest in reading due to them sucking at it to even start them being interested in reading.
|
|