Any on hate the classics?

[fudgebo]

Hey, I know there have been many book threads so please no search bar comments. Just wondering if I?m alone in the fact that I think the "classics" are sometimes terrible, remember I said sometimes. My example would be anything Joyce or Dostoyevsky. I'd be interested to here any other examples you can think of. Or even great classics, I know there be many Dune fans here.

 

[Incredible Bullshitting Man]

Fine, I won´t mention search bar, but that should answer your inquiry. You´re not alone.

 

[Agent Larkin]

I found that Lord of the Flies was terrible even though that is supposed to be a classic.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I found that Lord of the Flies was terrible even though that is supposed to be a classic.

Amazingly, despite being forced to read it for school, I liked that.

Anything by Jane Bloody Austen makes me want to end it.

 

[The Rockerfly]

Fine, I won´t mention search bar, but that should answer your inquiry. You´re not alone.

This is not relevant to your post but my God you have an awesome name.

 

[SpikeyGirl]

I found that Lord of the Flies was terrible even though that is supposed to be a classic.

I liked Lord of the Flies the first time I read it, the next six times not so much and after my exam I hated it.

 

[sheic99]

The Scarlett Letter

I have yet to read a book that I hated more that that one.

 

[Agent Larkin]

I found that Lord of the Flies was terrible even though that is supposed to be a classic.

Amazingly, despite being forced to read it for school, I liked that.

Anything by Jane Bloody Austen makes me want to end it.

I agree with you on Jane Austen ( I have to study her next year the only advantage is that I have a teacher who dosn't care if you make accents for the characters)

Quothe I:

To Kill a Mockingbird. This was the worst book I've ever read.

I don't know how you can see that as a bad book.

I found that Lord of the Flies was terrible even though that is supposed to be a classic.

I liked Lord of the Flies the first time I read it, the next six times not so much and after my exam I hated it.

After my exam I hated it as well but I was also watching Battle Royale around this time so I kept comparing the two.

 

[Incredible Bullshitting Man]

Fine, I won´t mention search bar, but that should answer your inquiry. You´re not alone.

This is not relevant to your post but my God you have an awesome name.

Well, thank you, kind sir. You´re not so bad looking yourself.

 

[Gerazzi]

Chronicles of Narnia did the impossible by making fantasy boring.
Not kidding.
I liked the movie better than the book
the same is possibly said for the Princess Bride (don't ask, was forced to read)

 

[HT_Black]

1984. I've said it several times, but what a peice of REDUNDANT CRAP. At least in Half-life 2 I can hit Alec Guiness with a crowbar.
Your turn, Orobouros.

 

[Soxafloppin]

I love battle royale, lord of the flies didnt apeal to me.

 

[HonorableChairman]

A "classic" is nothing more than a book/film/what have you that is widely considered to be good.

However, this does not necessarily guarantee that one will like it. It is a good indicator of quality, but nothing more.

 

[similar.squirrel]

I've liked most of the ones I've been forced to read. Probably would have done so at a later date anyway, out of some vague sense of obligation.
But..How the hell did 'Lies of Silence' get on the bloody syllabus?We had to read it instead of Steinbeck. It's basically Dan Brown lite, with a Northern Irish setting. Yes. Sectarianism is bad, now learn to fucking write ><

 

[The Youth Counselor]

I can't read anything by J.R.R Tolkien or H.P. Lovecraft anymore.

I appreciate that their works were published, considering all the great work that came because of their influence. But their work is terrible.

Tolkien needs to stop describing every individual leaf on a tree in minute detail. We don't give a shit about the trees you hippie!

As for H.P. Lovecraft, it's the same thing over and over again. Some asshole-aristocratic-whitey (Which is now my impression of Lovecraft) narrates story about how he encounters some evil spurned from stereotypical persons of lesser races. Throw in "Cyclopean" architecture and dreams and there.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Well, at least this thread isn't questioning the usage of the term "classics." I'm very much not a fan of 1984 or Brave New World, but I can't deny that they're well-written.

That said, I think I listed off almost everything in that other thread, so I'll jsut quote myself.

I have no trouble separating "literary classics" from "books I like." I came across only a few in school that I genuinely liked. Sorry to buck the trend a little, but I loved To Kill a Mockingbird...possibly because my English teacher never got hung up over symbolism, and never required his students to. I can almost count the others on one hand; let's see...Catch-22, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Bless Me Ultima, Death Comes For the Archbishop, Jane Eyre (seriously, and I don't know why), Joy Luck Club. Almost one hand.

On the other hand, I didn't like Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, The Giver, 1984, Brave New World, Tale of Two Cities, The Great Gatsby, The Scarlet Letter, The Grapes of Wrath, The Crucible, Frankenstein, Candid (though it was close), The Stranger (close), Lord of the Flies, Of Mice and Men...

I don't know how you can see that as a bad book.

You know, I'd almost despaired of finding anyone else on the Escapist who liked that book. It was really surprising.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I found that Lord of the Flies was terrible even though that is supposed to be a classic.

Amazingly, despite being forced to read it for school, I liked that.

Anything by Jane Bloody Austen makes me want to end it.

I agree with you on Jane Austen ( I have to study her next year the only advantage is that I have a teacher who dosn't care if you make accents for the characters)

Lucky you. I had a teacher of Pakistani descent so apparantly EVERYTHING in our culture is racist.
You see that advert? Racist.
That book? Racist.
This music? Racist.
That new movie? Racist.

 

[Kailias]

I don't care what you say, The Tradgedy of Romeo and Juliet. They had NO reason to love each other, yet they give up everything to be together. Why? Then it's FILLED with plot holes, everybody in our class kept asking questions about why 'this' happened instead of 'that'. Our teacher had no answers.

If you say it's the beautiful metaphors that made it famous I can't argue, but the "humour" as awful.

 

[Nmil-ek]

A streetcar named desire must have been 6 years ago or so back in school we read/watched that but I fuckin hated it, nothing deep or interesting it just droned on and on and on...

 

[Agent Larkin]

I found that Lord of the Flies was terrible even though that is supposed to be a classic.

Amazingly, despite being forced to read it for school, I liked that.

Anything by Jane Bloody Austen makes me want to end it.

I agree with you on Jane Austen ( I have to study her next year the only advantage is that I have a teacher who dosn't care if you make accents for the characters)

Lucky you. I had a teacher of Pakistani descent so apparantly EVERYTHING in our culture is racist.
You see that advert? Racist.
That book? Racist.
This music? Racist.
That new movie? Racist.

I hate teachers like that.