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Firefly -> RE: =PROSE= I know its great literature but I SAY MEH! (9/18/2009 16:20:17)

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I mean come on, who doesn't love WORKING MEN OF ALL NATIONS, UNITE!?

I can never take that phrase seriously again, after I saw a video satirizing famous statements of various Communist leaders. Their phrases were "altered" to reflect the ludicrous state Communist regimes became in reality. I won't say more, 'cause we're not supposed to debate politics, but please don't blame me if I have nothing good to say about Marx or his prose after that video...



Falerin -> RE: =PROSE= I know its great literature but I SAY MEH! (9/25/2009 22:48:10)

Marx is no more responsible for the behavior of later communists or socialists than Abraham Lincoln is personally responsible for the actions of the twenty and twenty first century republicans.



demolitiondragon -> RE: =PROSE= I know its great literature but I SAY MEH! (9/27/2009 23:01:48)

Anything Shakespeare puts me to sleep (literally, they had to wake me up at the end of the class ;) ).



TW25 -> RE: =PROSE= I know its great literature but I SAY MEH! (9/27/2009 23:33:57)

All that comes to mind for me is Romeo and Juliet. I honestly don't get how writing that would be worth anyone's time. It was more of a comedy than a tragedy to me too. XD



alexmacf -> RE: =PROSE= I know its great literature but I SAY MEH! (9/28/2009 0:54:55)

Oh my gosh, I love Romeo and Juliet! I don't care what the teachers say, it's one of the most hilarious plays I've ever seen. (And writing papers on how funny Romeo and Juliet is isn't a good idea, btw. It'll get you sent to the counselor's office, along with the story you wrote about an undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenic being picked on in school.)



Baker -> RE: =PROSE= I know its great literature but I SAY MEH! (9/30/2009 0:16:38)

Emily Dickinson, all caps and underlined three times. I despise her work, and I'm not even sure why. It just really irritates (and bores, when it's not irritating) me.



Prator the Legendary -> RE: =PROSE= I know its great literature but I SAY MEH! (10/1/2009 14:06:47)

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EMILY DICKINSON
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^Something like that?

I'm reminded of a parody Mark Twain once wrote of Emily Dickinson's style of poetry... it was so overwhelmingly bleak and depressing that reading it made you want to kill yourself and/or the author. Funnily enough, it wasn't all that far off from Dickinson's actual work...



Hay -> RE: =PROSE= I know its great literature but I SAY MEH! (10/2/2009 1:52:23)

@ demolitiondragon: I like Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and "Much Ado About Nothing" :P ... however, I despise being chosen in class to portray the characters. Which, for some reason, my teachers seem to enjoy doing.

For some reason, no matter how much I try, I can't get into Wuthering Heights. I've heard it's a great classic book and all - but the beginning is not very...interesting. I keep getting distracted and/or reread the same line over and over again by accident.

Also, I dislike D. H. Lawrence. I've been studying him as part of my Literature course and do not really like the way he writes. His language is so repetitive at times, to the point where it becomes blatantly obvious he has reused the same word at least once in each sentence. Sadly this is a technique he uses and thus, I have no choice but to analyze it.



Fleur Du Mal -> RE: =PROSE= I know its great literature but I SAY MEH! (10/3/2009 9:56:14)

Another example how diffferent personal tastes rule our choices. =P For me, Wuthering Heights was one of the first, if not the first book that got me into romance. I presume its dark streak caused much of its appeal to me. I doubt I would have touched it if it hadn't been on one of those lists of great/notable literature.

All in all, I have to say that choosing a book from those lists they gave in school have proven more often to lead to a good reading experience than to bad. Of course the lists aren't that extensive...and at least earlier it was nearly impossible to find fantasy books in them (scifi and Douglas Adams was there, though =P). Not totally sure about the current situation.



Hay -> RE: =PROSE= I know its great literature but I SAY MEH! (10/3/2009 11:32:16)

Let's say that there is a chance I may enjoy Wuthering Heights if I get to reading it completely from cover to cover :P But I digress. Still, the blurb had captivated my interest so I'm hoping my next attempt at reading it will fare better xD



Arzamol -> RE: =PROSE= I know its great literature but I SAY MEH! (11/27/2009 19:42:46)

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All that comes to mind for me is Romeo and Juliet. I honestly don't get how writing that would be worth anyone's time. It was more of a comedy than a tragedy to me too. XD

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Oh my gosh, I love Romeo and Juliet! I don't care what the teachers say, it's one of the most hilarious plays I've ever seen. (And writing papers on how funny Romeo and Juliet is isn't a good idea, btw. It'll get you sent to the counselor's office, along with the story you wrote about an undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenic being picked on in school.)
I read it from a text book, and while It was sad as I read it, it got funny once I started really thinking about it.


I found Edgar Allen Poe's works to be just plain silly, but I suppose to some guy living a couple hundred years ago it would be pretty scary.

At the end of The Tell Tale Heart, I could almost imagine the police holding a tape recorder behind their backs, and one saying to the other "Told you it would work."



Shadowlord9k -> RE: =PROSE= I know its great literature but I SAY MEH! (11/29/2009 21:39:48)

any 'work of great litarture'
i like obscure books that are interesting

monster blood tatoo-foundling is AWESOMELY EPIC
i havent read the second or 3rd yet though



Wiseman -> RE: =PROSE= I know its great literature but I SAY MEH! (12/3/2009 14:48:49)

Stephen King I’ve read the Shining and It (partly) and I could not get into either one of them. His writing style simply bores me.



Goldstein -> RE: =PROSE= I know its great literature but I SAY MEH! (12/12/2009 15:33:45)

Shakespeare is to me, far too flowery for my taste. Romeo and Juliet to be exact. The fact that it takes about five minutes of reading for a character to spit out whatever he is trying to say is just boring to me. We had to read it in the eighth grade...there was a popular joke that if one of the characters tried to say he had to go to the bathroom, he would pee himself before he could spit it out. Luckily, there was a simplified version of the book inside the original book, so side-by-side translation was easy. Unfortunately, the simplified version was terrible, and tried to bring Romeo and Juliet into the 21st century...bad move. If the simplified version just SIMPLIFIED the original text, it would have been much better. The plot of Romeo and Juliet is pretty nice, if only the text was SIMPLFIED…



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