Posted on 06/29/2016 5:39:05 PM PDT by InHisService
Too long to read, but I’ve never watched Orange and have dismissed it as some kind of left wing trash based on who loves it, the tranny, etc.
Bkmrk.
As for the article, I'll take the author's word that the subject is a self-absorbed snob.
“I haven’t any right to criticise books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
Mark Twain- Letter to Joseph Twichell, 13 September 1898 “
:-)
Oh thank God. God bless Mr. Twain. I’m waiting to be lambasted on here for my lack of taste in fine literature. For the record, I made it to page 131 of “Moby Dick.”
It sucks. I cannot imagine wasting even a 10th of a second on the book which it was based upon.
I never watched a single episode of Orange/Black.
If Hillary does a cameo, I’ll watch that episode, maybe...
I imagine that I’d find Piper Kerman rather tiresome, but the writer of this article seems a dreadful fussbudget.
I’ve never even touched a copy. It wasn’t a book I was ever assigned to read.
Lol, you’ve gotta love Twain!
My GF tried it. She couldn’t stand it either.
Not really. I’m actually a nice person. And yes, I did find fault with Ms. Kerman, rightfully so.
Working in the prison system and having a daughter that served time was really what attracted me to the book. From what I hear about the series, they spend a lot of time on lesbian relationships, which I have absolutely no desire to see.
It certainly is.
Never got past the first season. It is pervy and gross.
I enjoy Jane Austen-loved Pride and Prejudice. Melville, however, bores me to tears. I couldn’t make it far into Moby Dick and only finished Billy Budd, Sailor because it was for a class.
I believe Mark Twain also remarked that any library might be improved by the omission of Jane Austen’s works, and that even if it had no other books in it, “It would be a tolerably good library by virtue of that one omission alone.”
Of course, we had P&P assigned in HS English, and from what I read of it, I thought it was very good, but it was too long for me! I never finished anything in those days.
I finally did read Moby Dick one year at the beach, in my 40’s I think, and I enjoyed it thoroughly, but I had the constant thought, “How could anybody expect kids to read this stuff?”
I like Daredevil, but most of Netflix’s original output looks like leftist junk. Even Fuller House got in a few unnecessary (and stupid) digs in at The Donald.
I wanted to like Jane Austen. I really did.
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