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This may seem like blasphemy to fellow fantasists, but I could barely finish Terry Pratchett's "The Colour of Magic", and gave up on "Mort". Don't get me wrong, I appreciate his imagination, skill and longevity, but could not read him.
Neither could I read Thomas Hardy's "Far from the Maddening Crowd" - it was maddening.
As for the Bible ... Numbers ... I was never very good with MathS, anyway.
Wouldn't it be great if someday, a bunch of writers sat around talking about how much they hated our books?
Yes, but once *our* words are published, the whole world has the right to critize, it will happen.
Exactly — I would love to be covered in college lit discussions. People like Lovecraft or Poe might be criticized for blatant racism and overwrought style, but you still know them by a single name. Even Steven King still needs two. I could stand to be required reading, for a discussion of what I did right and wrong.Only if they bother to read them. If we're good enough, writers will feel compelled to read them, and then sit around discussing how we got it all wrong. You know you've arrived when...
I could stand to be required reading, for a discussion of what I did right and wrong.
lol Numbers is where all well-intentioned readers die off.As for the Bible ... Numbers ... I was never very good with MathS, anyway.
See, and all I did was read John's Apocalypse and a few books out of the Apocrypha, to do a fantasy retelling in the "dragons and sorcery in a ficticious Roman island-province" series I used to work on.But it's fun to read it, just to say HA! I got through it so THERE! LOL!!
I've read the Bible a couple of times. Kinda had to, I was raised fundamentalist. I quote the King James version at all socially awkward moments. Most people don't know I'm quoting it and just assume I'm balmy. My husband says he can only tell when I'm quoting it because of the language--if I sound like Brother Maynard from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
And orangutans, and fruit bats, and stoats......And they feasted upon the lambs, and sloths, and breakfast cereals...
Indeed. I have yet to read Jude the Obscure, but I'm told Hardy was a very dark fellow overall, at least with words. Far From the Madding Crowd is supposed to be his happiest piece!Thomas Hardy gets bleaker and bleaker at every stage, I think Far from the madding crowd is excelent and Tess of D'Urbaviles, but then you get onto Jude the Obscure and it all gets quite depressing.
We had to read it for a lit class, otherwise I would have also tossed it.I have started and put down Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison three times. I can't finish it. I feel like there was one other book that was in the same category, but it must have sucked so much, my mind is blocking it out.