Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

AK has a great opening line though! One of my besties prefers Dostoevsky too. Which is your favourite of his?

It gets quoted a lot that's for sure!
I liked both The Brothers Karamazov & Crime & Punishment. As he's never a quick, easy read I've still to try The Idiot.

 

[LozzyR]

Thank you evey one for the kind words. His mom died at 7:30 this morning. In 5 more days it will be 6 months since his dad died. He's finally sleeping and I'm doing chicken therapy.

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This is Ellie, from the school hatch, she's getting ready to lay any day now.

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Ned and Lucky are doing great! He's starting to get a little 'tude like his daddy!

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Of course Daddy is teaching him well!! I think Stanley might be growing tail feathers!!

Thinking of you and Rich, Danielle. And lovely to see Little Neddy and the Cushion Princess!

 

[drstratton]

I got it from the neighbour! It may already be widespread?

Well, it's already in use in Australia & now in Washington state, so if it wasn't widespread before, it is now...

 

[LozzyR]

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

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!

 

[LozzyR]

It gets quoted a lot that's for sure!
I liked both The Brothers Karamazov & Crime & Punishment. As he's never a quick, easy read I've still to try The Idiot.

I enjoyed Crime & Punishment; it was interesting to watch the the main character descend into madness because of what he had done.

 

[MaryJanet]

It gets quoted a lot that's for sure!
I liked both The Brothers Karamazov & Crime & Punishment. As he's never a quick, easy read I've still to try The Idiot.

Those are Jo's favourites too!

 

[MaryJanet]

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!

I liked Wuthering Heights for the cruelty Bronte expressed. Adding an afterthought: in me, it evoked shock, anger, sympathy.

Does anyone know if cruelty had been written as thoroughly and clearly in fiction before WH? If not, it's a remarkable achievement for a relatively cloistered and isolated author of her time.

 

[MaryJanet]

Hmm maybe we should start a reading thread?

 

[LozzyR]

I liked Wuthering Heights for the cruelty Bronte expressed. Does anyone know if cruelty had been written as thoroughly and clearly in fiction before WH? If not, it's a remarkable achievement for a relatively cloistered and isolated author of her time.

I have no doubt that Bronte put up with a lot of crap whilst being an author in her time and kudos to her for her achievement, but I really couldn’t enjoy the book. Perhaps if I read it from a different perspective...

 

[Ribh]

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!

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...