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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...
lol Numbers is where all well-intentioned readers die off.
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!!
. Still, I'm much more partial to Tess of the d'Urbervilles.And orangutans, and fruit bats, and stoats......
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!
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.
