Update: there is much groaning and gnashing of teeth

[brasssun]

Life is continuing, slowly and month to month

Comments

[tirerim]

The book I remember being full of characters I wanted to slap upside the head was Pride and Prejudice, and that didn't even have the ridiculous politics/philosophy on top of it. I actually gave up on it; a classic it may be, but I just don't see the point in reading books that I don't actually enjoy.

[brasssun]

Hah! Okay, I love Pride and Prejudice but I do admit there was a lot of idiocy happening. I could barely get through Darcy's first proposal in my first reading and never re-read it.

Normally I just don't read books that I don't enjoy, but Atlas Shrugged is politically charged enough that I want to be able to argue against it from a point of knowledge. I'd probably like it (somewhat) better as a book if I weren't so very aware that there are people who actually believe in it as a philosophical treatise. Of course, then I wouldn't be reading it at all, so...

[sildra]

I liked Pride and Prejudice--I found it reasonably funny in the places it was trying to be funny (that I noticed--I probably missed a lot of jokes due to being unfamiliar with the cultural context), and I liked the heroine. The book(s) I hated because I couldn't stand a single character was the Song of Ice and Fire series. Back in college when a bunch of people in SWIL were reading them, I tried to read them too, because everyone pointed out it was my genre. But I just couldn't stand them, and gave up after about 2 1/2 books.

[brasssun]

Oof. Yeah. I didn't even try to read those, and now I'm somewhat concerned that I'm going to have to start watching the TV show. I'm sure it's very well done, but when it comes to characters you hate, having them be well done just makes them worse.