favorite book

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
The most overrated "great book" I can think of is Moby ****. Uuuuuuuuuurgh what a nightmare of boredom. He could just have the first chapter and the last 3 chapters, and that's all there is interesting about it. Then you get whole chapters on whale rope and what not. Yech.

Sounds like you'd have problems with Hemingway too...

[Boris Godunov]

No, I like Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms is up there on my list. I don't see much connection between Melville and Hemingway.

[Dom Pedro II]

Hemingway often has vast sections in his work that aren't exactly dynamic...

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
No, I like Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms is up there on my list. I don't see much connection between Melville and Hemingway.

If you ever want to know the intricacies/boring details of bullfighting, hunting etc. then Hemingway's your man.

[alva]

Originally posted by Dom Pedro II
Hemingway often has vast sections in his work that aren't exactly dynamic...

kill animal, blah, blah, blah, kill animal, blah , blah ....

i think i'm gonna get somekind off a response to this, i might even get quoted i feel

[KrazyHorse]

That's what they give out the Nobel Prize in Lit for, after all.

[Boris Godunov]

Well, perhaps I've been lucky in the Hemingway I've read. I don't think AFTA or The Sun Also Rises is even remotely close to the boredom-inducing Moby D!ck (It really pisses me off that word is censored...).

Another candidate for horridness is Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Kill it!!! Kill it!!!

[Dom Pedro II]

Well, I personally hate anything written by Charles Dickens.

[KrazyHorse]

I don't think AFTA or The Sun Also Rises is even remotely close to the boredom-inducing Moby D!ck (It really pisses me off that word is censored...)

Sun Also Rises is early work, one of my least-favourite Hemingways; not ambitious, sticks with form/style of contemporary lit.

I don't think Hemingway's boring, but neither is Melville.

[Boris Godunov]

*Gasp* You can't mean Great Expectations, too. Come on, that's one of the best books written in the English language.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Dom Pedro II
Well, I personally hate anything written by Charles Dickens.

If there was ever an author meant to be skimmed, he's it.

On the other hand, Virginia Woolf is just meant not to be read at all...

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse

but neither is Melville.

Yes, he is.

[Dom Pedro II]

C'mon! Dickens is so contrived!

The kid meets a convict, the kid meets a rich lady who happens to be the caretaker of the convict's daughter, and the convict is really in reality rich... I could understand if he met Mrs. Havisham through the convict, but he didn't! He just happened to be introduced to her through a totally unaffiliated party.

Look at A Tale of Two Cities too... A woman goes to pick up her father from the Bastille and when she comes back she just HAPPENS to get on the same boat as the nephew of the marquis who threw her father in prison in the first place.

Its a stretch...

[KrazyHorse]

It was the 19th century. People were more credulous.

[monolith94]

the convict wasn't rich at the time - he became rich. I really liked great expectations. One book that I wasn't able to find the time/energy for though, was the picture of dorian grey. Kind of regret not having read that one.