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Classics that disappoint

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Wabbit

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I was looking through my bookshelf today. I noticed Conrad's Heart of Darkness sitting there on my shelf. I must say, I was pretty disappointed with it. I find the classics to be very hit and miss afair. Hmmmm.

What classics have you read, only to be disappointed with?

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SillyWabbit
 
Wuthering Heights. It was complete dross.

Lord of the Rings. Unreadable drivel filled with dreadful poems. (think it's old enough to count as a classic, nearly)

Anything by Dickens.
 
A Clockwork Orange. Not really a classic classic, but enough people know of it. I didn't like it, at the end I was thinking, 'what was the point in that?'
 
Litany said:
Wuthering Heights. It was complete dross.

Lord of the Rings. Unreadable drivel filled with dreadful poems. (think it's old enough to count as a classic, nearly)

Anything by Dickens.
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Agreed on Lord of the Rings and anything by Dickens. Dickens: Man that guy can RAMBLE on and on and on and on and on and get nowhere!!!

Regards
SillyWabbit
 
classic dross

I am with you on Heart of Darkness and Lord of the Rings. But it think that Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables is the winner-- or is that the loser?
 
:eek: Did you just say that the Universally-Accepted Best Book Ever, The Lord of the Rings was not anything but wonderful!!

Run, run now, the Middle Earth Police are coming to strap you down in a chair and read that excrutiating Tom Bombadil section to you over and over again until your fingers bleed!! :D

On-topic: I havnt read all that many classics, but i cant say ive really disliked any of the ones ive read ..... except maybe Great Expectations, which wasnt all that fun :)

Phil
 
phil_t said:
Run, run now, the Middle Earth Police are coming to strap you down in a chair and read that excrutiating Tom Bombadil section to you over and over again until your fingers bleed!! :D
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We don't need to start running yet. When they spot us they'll have to stop and sing a 27 page long song about it. That leaves me enough time to have my dinner, have a bath, pack, inform all my relatives that I might have to leave town for a few days, load my shotgun and sharpen my sporks.

I also hated The Last of The Mohicans. That counts as a classic doesn't it? Just couldn't get into it. So then I tried watching the film instead and I gave up on that too.
 
phil_t said:
:eek: Did you just say that the Universally-Accepted Best Book Ever, The Lord of the Rings was not anything but wonderful!!

Run, run now, the Middle Earth Police are coming to strap you down in a chair and read that excrutiating Tom Bombadil section to you over and over again until your fingers bleed!! :D

On-topic: I havnt read all that many classics, but i cant say ive really disliked any of the ones ive read ..... except maybe Great Expectations, which wasnt all that fun :)

Phil
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Yeah that, or read me some Elven "poetry" GARRRGFFF. Toklien needs a good kick in the teeth for what he has done! A million Tokien fans writting Elven poetry! AHHHHH! It's even worse when they write it IN Evlish :eek:

Regards
SillyWabbit
 
Litany said:
I also hated The Last of The Mohicans. That counts as a classic doesn't it? Just couldn't get into it. So then I tried watching the film instead and I gave up on that too.
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You threw that in JUST to piss me off didn't you? :rolleyes: It's one of my favorite films and I ordered the book last week.

RaVeN
 
The Great Gatsby - just not into people being drunk all the freaking time.

The Awakening is quite possibly the worst. book. ever. Made me want to drown myself in the ocean.


I agree with you all on LOTR....just couldn't get into it at all...the poetry and songs are just a tad bit excessive.
 
VTChEwbecca said:
The Awakening is quite possibly the worst. book. ever. Made me want to drown myself in the ocean.
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LOL - never read it, now I don't think I want to :D

Regards
SillyWabbit
 
I agree with Litany on The Last of the Mohicans. While reading it I almost expected that in a moment one of the bad guys would say something like: "I do apologise, sir, for killing you, but I feel that I am obliged to do it as we are not in a benevolent relationship".
 
Anything by Thomas Hardy, and especially Tess of the D'Urberville!

Excruciating!

Cheers, Martin :cool:
 
Litany said:
Wuthering Heights. It was complete dross.

Lord of the Rings. Unreadable drivel filled with dreadful poems. (think it's old enough to count as a classic, nearly)

Anything by Dickens.
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i agree with Wuthering Heights. i loved the story, but i really couldn't get into the book. Same with the Lord of the Rings, though i liked the films. i actually enjoy Dickens. The classic that i dislike the most is stoker's dracula. i have never been able to read more than 10 pages.
 
Probably "Universally adored classics that I personally hated". Are you saying that the only reason we dislike these books is because we have "misunderstood" them?
 
The Lord of the Rings - glad they made a movie because i couldn't get into the book.

The Scarlett Letter - this may be a classic to many people but not to me. it was a decent story, but nothing more.

anything Charles Dickens - i agree with whoever brought this up.

The Crucible - why do so many people love this story? why?!

Wuthering Heights - as mentioned in the other thread... just a chore to read.

Ethan Frome - excuse me while i take a nap... or am i just in a coma?


Litany, how could you not like Last of the Mohicans? that was such an awesome book. i might pick that up to reread it now that i think about it... then find a fat kid named Piggy to chuck the book at when i'm done, lol.
 
Buddy Knox said:
Litany, how could you not like Lord of the Mohicans? that was such an awesome book. i might pick that up to reread it now that i think about it... then find a fat kid named Piggy to chuck the book at when i'm done, lol.
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Are you sure you don't mean Last of the Flies?
 
i am thinking lord of the flies... my mistake.

lol, wait... i didn't like last of the mohicans. i confused the two. n/m
 
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