Comments | librarygrrrl: A book meme...

librarygrrrl

A book meme...

Apr 15, 2005 10:32

My friend Eric just posted about a book everyone else thinks is great, but he just can't get through.

So I'm turning loose into the LJ world.

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Name a popular or acclaimed book (or two) that you just can't make it through.

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
Anything by Tom Wolfe.

Comments 15

eustella April 15 2005, 14:59:17 UTC

Cold Mountain
Middlemarch

librarygrrrl April 15 2005, 19:22:23 UTC

You know, I managed to read both of those. I don't remember much about Cold Mountain, but I had to FORCE myself to read Middlemarch. That was probably back in the days when I wanted to be more "literary". Bah!

emmiem April 15 2005, 15:10:59 UTC

How funny, just talking about this at work today!!

A Tale of Two Cities *gouges eyes out*

librarygrrrl April 15 2005, 19:22:46 UTC

I'm blind too! Had to read that one in high school, and HATED it.

purlewe April 15 2005, 15:38:47 UTC

anything by these two authors (and I have *tried* so hard to love them)

woolf
faulkner

*sigh

Faulkner purlewe April 15 2005, 17:49:55 UTC

Not even As I Lay Dying? I'm not sure anybody but English Literature grad students can get through TS&TF, but Dying is more easily endured by most.

Re: Faulkner purlewe April 15 2005, 20:30:01 UTC

I have read one woolf book, in college.. and I have read it 2 times since and sadly.. I cannot for the life of me remember a damn thing that happened.. not even from one chapter to another. I even would write myself little blurbs on what happened in each chapter to help myself.

faulkner: I tried reading it aloud, but whenever I picked it back up I would forget what happened. it was so horrible!

librarygrrrl April 15 2005, 19:23:12 UTC

Me either. And I sigh with you.

pinkhairedcyn April 15 2005, 16:41:53 UTC

(explicit deleted) Thomas Harding. Freaking Tess of the Freaking d'Urbervilles. I want to exhume his corpse and punch him in the face.

librarygrrrl April 15 2005, 19:28:34 UTC

I've never tried, and after your ringing endorsement, I'm not sure I will. ;)

purlewe April 15 2005, 20:31:24 UTC

I had to read this and heart of darkness in the same class. I try to have temporary amnesia about both of them..

Thanks for this thread librarygrrrl

ameegee April 16 2005, 00:27:19 UTC

I want to exhume his corpse and punch him in the face.

Too funny!! That's exactly what I wanted to do in high school. Oh how I hated that book. Never finished it but somehow passed the test.

frog_lady April 15 2005, 17:02:14 UTC

Heart of Darkness. I didn't try very hard, but I couldn't get through The Pickwick Papers, either.

librarygrrrl April 15 2005, 19:29:26 UTC

Oh, one of my more painful memories of high school comes rushing back with that title. I shall have to try the Pickwick Papers at some point, to see what I think.