Posted on 03/02/2022 9:20:32 AM PST by C19fan
They're the books we know we’re meant to have read – but which many of us are too daunted by to actually pick up and start.
That hasn’t stopped nearly half of Britons from pretending to have devoured classics in an attempt to impress others.
An overwhelming 95 per cent of people find reading older novels and plays hard work, a poll has found. However many said they bluff their literary knowledge to appear more intelligent.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Do they still make ‘Cliff’s Notes’?
Three of them were required reading when I went to high school.
He doesn't have to clean it up for me. I might be an old lady, but I worked 25 years in uniform in NY State's prison system. Every other word behind bars is F-this, and F-that, and although I've been retired for more than 18 years, my language hasn't changed, and at this point in my life, it won't change either. Sam's 3 years old than me, so by my estimation, he's earned the right to say whatever he wants, however he wants.
That monologue at the end? I rarely skip ahead…but I skipped that mess.
Well, if you use it in every sentence it loses any effect and becomes meaningless.
Also makes one sound sub-intelligent and of very limited vocabulary.
That's okay. I live alone, so the only one that has to hear it, is me.
Tried watching that movie a few weeks ago. Thank God I did not go to the theater for it. I found it almost unwatchable. I am too old to watch paint dry.
I thought “Moody Dick” was a bit up and down.
“Classics Illustrated Comics.”
I loved Wuthering Heights and The Great Gatsby. Liked Moby Dick OK. War And Peace made my hair hurt it was so boring. Haven’t read the others.
I believe they are online now. They used to be in the back corner of the bookstore. It’s been a long, long time since I needed one of those.
I found the characters very one-dimensional. The whole novel had the atmosphere of a surrealist landscape, to me.
One could argue that that’s what she meant to do...but it ruined what could have been a much better and equally convincing novel.
It’s possible to combine a political/philosophical polemic with a work of fiction, but I think you need more artistic talent than Rand possessed to do it right.
LOL!
Dostoevsky is my favorite novelist but David Copperfield is my favorite novel. I still get thrills reading that book... I think it’s just how incredibly ‘English’ it is... It’s also the first major novel I ever read.
You should give Bleak House a go... it is nothing like the title suggests is all I’ll give away.
Moby Dick is a bit ponderous... once you adjust to the whaling lingo it’s a good read.... it’s interesting that it was a complete flop in Melville’s lifetime.
I thought War and Peace would be a slog because of the length... I loved it, even found it a bit of a page turner. I was studying Napoleon at the time as part of a modern history survey I was doing - Tolstoy’s perspective on Napoleon the man was really interesting to read.
BTTT
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“Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Just get the video.”
I head that the original title for Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” was “War, What is it Good For.”
It’s funny how the mind does that. I haven’t had a Big Mac in forever.
When I was in college I read "Lord of the Rings" over a long weekend. The night before I tended bar at a dorm party. In the morning I had a bunch of leftover mix packets for whisky sours, which, for no particular reason, I nibbled on thoughtfully as I followed Frodo to Mordor.
I can still open one of those books at random, read a few lines, and taste sour mix.
Read 7 out of 10 over the years.
You know what it costs now?
Absolutely nothing!
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