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LozzyR said:
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!
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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.
 
Ribh said:
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. :lau 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.:gigNaturally he has gone in & out of critical favour...:lol:
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Poe, you did not like Poe?! I can understaffed Hemingway, he is not for everyone, but Poe. I'm shocked I say, shocked!
 
Ribh said:
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. :lau It drives my linear daughter crazy. :gigIt is a handy trick when you have to read @ multiple levels because you are always looking for the connecting bits. :lol:
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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 said:
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.
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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.
 

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