Posted on 06/29/2016 5:39:05 PM PDT by InHisService
Years ago I was in a book club, one of my friends would pick John Steinbeck novels. Reading them was torture to me. She felt the same about the Austen novels I picked. She asked if I could read plays for fun. I thought everyone could ;-). I enjoy reading plays. I like dialogue-she likes lengthy descriptions. The first page of The Grapes Of Wrath just about did me in. Likewise the back forth dialogue in Pride and Prejudice drove her crazy.
I’ve watched all but the most recent season of OITNB but haven’t read the book. The character in the series seems to be about as self-absorbed and dislikable as your depiction of the author.
The show is decent but not great by any means. A few of the characters are somewhat interesting. Many more are 2-dimensional clichés.
I watched the show with the hubby for a few episodes, but when it became clear that it was all about lesbians, we lost all interest.
Oh Fuller House did it on episode one!
Done with that right there.
I read the book and hated it.
A friend of mine’s wife who is very liberal read it for her book club. She hated it and Piper.
Most of her friends in the book club are politically minded as she is. Most of them hated the book and Piper.
I actually liked the original show. I planned to watch Fuller until I read about that. Pathetic.
LOL!
Over and over again
So I would have to say that perhaps SLC was over stating his aversion just a tad.
I will never watch that show. The author is a narcissistic lesbian criminal. In a sane world, she would be ostracized for and stigmatized by her chosen behavior. She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth and could have been anything but chose to be a white collar criminal lesbian.
A box on the slut witch. I will never watch that show.
I am wanting to read some good classic literature but after Moby Dick and Jane Austen (Can’t even remember which book) I’m afraid!
I did want to watch the series, but as I mentioned in another post, don’t want to due to the lesbian story line. That, and making Piper Kerman any richer.
Her pretentiousness reminds me a lot of Gwyneth Paltro, who once said, “I can’t pretend to be someone that makes $25k a year.” Ugh.
A book about a women's prison?
I have the right to be called a snob. I read Moby Dick from cover to cover twice! (50 years ago.)
The book got so many great reviews, but I find a lot of fault with not only the author, but it’s depiction of a prison. There’s holiday contests, foot massages, pedicures, and birthday celebrations. There’s women helping each other all the time...that’s not really representative of what prison is like. Way too much effort and time seems to be spent writing about all the “good” in prison. We very rarely get to see the ugly side, which exists daily. Maybe the author chose to leave that out, but why?
If orange is the new black, lesbianism on tv is the new norm.
Twice! Were you abandoned on an island with nothing else to do? :-)
OITNB - Never read the book but the series is about really messed up people on both sides of the bars. Most wind up dearly paying more than jail time in some cases their lives.
Piper is a criminal bitch the pays heavily for her sins.
I was young and taking a class in American literature.
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