Ribh's D'Coopage

[BY Bob]

Kerouac's On the Road is worse. No punctuation! Ugh!

That would be awful. Don't expect me to even try that.

 

[BY Bob]

Yep. Didn't even get close to finishing it. Ghastly book. I prefer Dostoevsky to Tolstoy ~ probably because I started with Anna Karenia & she drove me wild.

Obviously, I like Tolstoy. Different minds I guess.

 

[BY Bob]

Three books I really disliked:

Helliconia - a story on a world a thousand light years from Earth, it is three inches thick and it was mind-numbingly boring!

Moby Dick - after all the hype, I found it incredibly boring! Hubby said he could get through it once he viewed it as a travel diary.

Wuthering Heights - all but two of the characters are self-absorbed and hateful, and those two are the narrator and his house-keeper, neither of which had any character development! I couldn’t believe this is a classic; you can’t empathise with any of the characters!

My youngest read Moby Dick when she was 9 or 10. She loved it. I have actually never read it. I have to agree on Wuthering Heights. Ugh!

I never heard of Helliconia.

 

[BY Bob]

It's all right Lozzy. I did my degree in this stuff & hated most of what I read ~ but I came to a conclusion & I hope I don't offend my American friends. The writers I really can't stand are white American Males.Ugh! Hemingway, Steinbeck, Melville, Poe.. Salinger & Fitzgerald are a little better, but not much. I did better if they were black or Jewish ~ but then I like Dostoyesvsky. And for so long the people who decided what was a classic were white males... And yet my favourite poet is TS Eliot because if you read him you touch on just about everything that has impacted English Literature.Naturally he has gone in & out of critical favour...

Poe, you did not like Poe?! I can understaffed Hemingway, he is not for everyone, but Poe. I'm shocked I say, shocked!

 

[BY Bob]

Perhaps...I dislike his inability to portray women as 3 dimensional & as I read more for character development & beauty thanfor a straight time line story [suspense is irrelevant so far as I'm concerned] He's not the author for me. OTOH I gave his The Old Man & The Sea to my non reading fishing son, who loved it & devoured it. So much depends on what you read for. I've said before I don't start @ the beginning of a novel & read through to the end. I'm as liable to start in the middle, or even the end, & read backwards & forwards because for me reading is like a jigsaw. I only need all the pieces, not all the pieces in order. It drives my linear daughter crazy. It is a handy trick when you have to read @ multiple levels because you are always looking for the connecting bits.

And this is the perfect way to describe the differences in our minds. I must start at the beginning and go to the end. It is rare that I give up on a book once I have started it. I feel I must finish it. Even if I don't care for it.

We have very different brains. I believe that's why I am drawn to you and your thoughts.

 

[BY Bob]

Wasn’t there ever?! I remember it being awfully graphic!

For those who want to know in exacting detail how whale processing was done back then, it is considered the best description of the process ever recorded.

 

[BY Bob]

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Ranunculus by the henhouse so orange!

We grew those for the first time this year. They are wonderful! I love orange and orange flowers are so hard to find! Beautiful.

 

[BY Bob]

Did you see any 5 toed cats?

I believe those are on Key West.

 

[RoyalChick]

My assumption for the film is that they stuck to the family stories and ignored everything else.

I have not read Ulysses but I was talking to Mrs BY Bob the other day about it. I have a feeling that I will have time coming up to take on a project like that.

That sounds like you are thinking of quitting your job. I own't probe but it sounds like you were doing important work so hoping it is a good decision and not born out of frustration.
I am thinking of that myself (more chicken time!) so I may just be projecting my thoughts on you.

 

[drstratton]

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Ranunculus by the henhouse so orange!

Absolutely beautiful!!!

I thought they were giant poppies - oh well. At least I know they are flowers.

That was my first thought too DD!