Any on hate the classics?

[Jumping_Over_Fences]

Catcher in the Rye!!! Worst, most boring book in the entire world. What the hell was the point of that story? To listen to Holden Caulfield complain about his life. He was the reason his life sucked! He never did anything, but complain and have a weird, almost sexual relationship with his very young sister.

 

[Zombie_Fish]

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

Damn, I was going to mention that. Anyway, I didn't post in that thread to show my opinion. That I don't really have any hatred on any literary classics. Or at least any that I've read.

 

[dweomermaster]

Farenheit 451. meant to be this brilliant book... an hour of pain and drivel.

 

[GrinningManiac]

Anything Austen wrote.

It's so silly and so very dull.

My mum said that it's meant to be all silly, it's a mockery of the frills of upperclass life.

Great, only everything it mocks with humour is dead on my ears, what with being 200 years ahead of the target audience

 

[Jerious1154]

Moby Dick is literally the most boring book I have ever read.

Of its 500 pages, 400 of them are about whales. Bone-structure of whales. Different types of whales. Differences in bone-structure between different types of whales. Debate over whether or not dolphins are whales. Size of whales. Uses of whales. Stories about whales.

Same with the Odyssey, only instead of whales it has feasts. That book is 25% story, 75% feasts.

 

[Arrers]

I wouldn't say I disliked any of the so-called Literary Classics that I've read, although Catch 22, as much as it makes you sound like an idiot for say a book has too many words, was a war of attrition to read. Especially considering that nothning really happens in terms of plot.

There are a few things about peoples opinions mentioned on this thread that confuse me. Why do people compare Lord of the Flies to Battle Royale?

 

[captain awesome 12]

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.

I bite my thumb at you sir!

But yeah, anything that could be solved with cell phones I have no respect for. Thus, I do not respect Romeo and Juliet.

I like most of the classics, but I guess that's because they aren't Twilight. Lord of the Flies was all at once enlightening and confusing as hell when I read it. However that was 7th grade so I'd like to see how I react to it now.

 

[pigeon_of_doom]

I actually quite like Austen, To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye, and I think I would still like them if I had actually been forced to study them, although probably not to the same degree.

I suppose, so far I have never quite "got" Dostoyevsky. Wasn't hugely enamoured of Crime and Punishment, and I gave up just over 100 pages into Brothers Karamanzov. I've far from written him off though, I fully intend on trying to tackle him again with a different mindset some point in the future. Not a big fan of Conrad either.

 

[Trace2010]

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.

You think that's bad? Try having a WHITE teacher for "multicultural education" AKA "white-bashing 101"...
Poor guy was deemed racist for trying to get the class ON TOPIC.

 

[Golden Gryphon]

We did Great Expectations for our GCSEs and I decided to read the whole book instead of just the couple chapters that we had to. I liked the characters (particularly Miss Havisham) and the story so it was a shame that I found the writing so difficult to hack my way through that I had to give up.

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.

I bite my thumb at you sir!

Possibly the greatest insult I have ever come across.

 

[D_987]

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.

It wasn't written for your time period, hence the humour; your obviously not studying it in context if you read it like that...

 

[dontworryaboutit]

In my experience, most classics are horrendous.

 

[sokka14]

more i understood lord of the flies the more i hated it.

also hate the prosaic translation of the odyssey. mind-numbingly tedious to read.

 

[sokka14]

There are a few things about peoples opinions mentioned on this thread that confuse me. Why do people compare Lord of the Flies to Battle Royale?

because people think battle royale is making a meaningful point.

 

[Arrers]

There are a few things about peoples opinions mentioned on this thread that confuse me. Why do people compare Lord of the Flies to Battle Royale?

because people think battle royale is making a meaningful point.

I should clarify; it's not that I think that Battle Royal is unworthy of comparison to Lord of the Flies, it's that they're very different. Sure, they both have schoolkids who kill each other, but one's a satire on reality television (I think) and one's about how far man is separated from savagery (I think). not that either of the two are less good good than the other.

 

[sokka14]

There are a few things about peoples opinions mentioned on this thread that confuse me. Why do people compare Lord of the Flies to Battle Royale?

because people think battle royale is making a meaningful point.

I should clarify; it's not that I think that Battle Royal is unworthy of comparison to Lord of the Flies, it's that they're very different. Sure, they both have schoolkids who kill each other, but one's a satire on reality television (I think) and one's about how far man is separated from savagery (I think). not that either of the two are less good good than the other.

actually they both attempt to explore the innate evilness in man, but where golding uses (annoying) metaphors and slowly developing savagery within society, battle royale is an implausible over-the-top gladiator fight with about as much subtlety as a hammer through the skull.

 

[Arrers]

There are a few things about peoples opinions mentioned on this thread that confuse me. Why do people compare Lord of the Flies to Battle Royale?

because people think battle royale is making a meaningful point.

I should clarify; it's not that I think that Battle Royal is unworthy of comparison to Lord of the Flies, it's that they're very different. Sure, they both have schoolkids who kill each other, but one's a satire on reality television (I think) and one's about how far man is separated from savagery (I think). not that either of the two are less good good than the other.

actually they both attempt to explore the innate evilness in man, but where golding uses (annoying) metaphors and slowly developing savagery within society, battle royale is an implausible over-the-top gladiator fight with about as much subtlety as a hammer through the skull.

Good point. Which one do you think was more did it better?

Altouhg I still like to think of Battle royale as a satire.

 

[Insanum]

I try not to read. I like to shoot things.

And ive never read a book i havent liked to be fair.

Although "of mice and men" just gets more & more depressing you read it :/

 

[Kit Fox]

If Jane Eyre could be considered a classic I wanted to beat her to death, or hope that crazy lady would eat her Hannibal Lectur style.

 

[Avatar Roku]

Quothe I:

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

Got to disagree with you there. Only book I read in school that I unabashedly loved. I liked a few others (Crucible, Fahrenheit 451, Of Mice and Men), but not nearly so much.

On the other hand, I hated Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye (although I found Holden to be a semi-interesting character, the book couldn't survive on him alone), and A Separate Peace currently holds the #1 spot on my "Shittiest/Most Boring Books Ever" list.