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Classic Literature you HATED
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posted04/03/2011 02:27 PM (UTC)by
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StormChaser
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What are some works of literature that are considered to be "classic" that you hate? Personally, I hated "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte. The characters were mean, manipulative, whiny, and the vast majority of the characters had nothing redeemable about them.
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 •03/31/2011 03:16 AM (UTC) •
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Catcher In The Rye.

My wife says Tess of the D'urbervilles.
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 •03/31/2011 03:58 AM (UTC) •
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Grapes of Wrath.

Screw the Joab's and screw that turtle crossing the road.
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 •03/31/2011 04:55 AM (UTC) •
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Bezou Wrote:
Catcher In The Rye.

My wife says Tess of the D'urbervilles.


I 100% agree on Catcher in the Rye. I didn't like it at all.

I think that's the only one I can think of.
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 •03/31/2011 04:59 AM (UTC) •
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Catcher in the Rye is my favourite book.
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 •03/31/2011 05:07 AM (UTC) •
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Madame Bovary and The Republic by Plato.
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 •03/31/2011 05:37 AM (UTC) •
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Anything by Jane Austen.
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 •03/31/2011 05:47 AM (UTC) •
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The Mayor of Casterbridge.
It's the only book I ever Cliff'd.

Also, *anything* by Dickens.
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 •03/31/2011 08:07 AM (UTC) •
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StormChaser Wrote:
"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte.


I couldn't be bothered with the characters either, plus this book was twice on my exam list. I became bored with it.

Rye is smart, but not one for easy entertainment.

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 •03/31/2011 12:29 PM (UTC) •
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus - I love the idea and everything about the concept and the criticism of the Industrial Revolution and all that jazz - but my God, it's so tiresome to read.
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 •03/31/2011 02:02 PM (UTC) •
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Pretty much every single one of those 19th century stuffy and pretentious domestic novels. I think Jane Eyre is the definition of bullshit to me.

I was never all that fond of some of Shakespeare's histories. Henry IV Part II was significantly worse than the first one. Straight up boring at times, which is surprising for him since he's usually very good at pacing a story.

But, yeah. 19th century domestic novels. Haven't read a single one where I didn't feel like reaching into the book, grabbing the characters by their throats, and choking the living shit out of them.
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 •03/31/2011 02:37 PM (UTC) •
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David Copperfield. I tried but I couldn't even finish it. Awful.
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 •03/31/2011 02:50 PM (UTC) •
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The one that comes to mind for me was Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. I swear, I couldn't even get past the second or third page before giving up.

That's not so bad, except when you consider reading it was a school assignment. Good thing there was a TV movie version available I could watch instead...
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 •03/31/2011 03:08 PM (UTC) •
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All of them....
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 •03/31/2011 08:19 PM (UTC) •
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The Catcher in the Rye, I think I read 3 chapters and could go no further.

A Farewell to Arms, awful book, lackluster ending, and SOOO damn dry.

A Tale of Two Cities, I like the idea but it is just way to dry, and has too many adjectives.



I, however, liked Frankenstein
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 •03/31/2011 09:19 PM (UTC) •
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The Great Shitsby

"Get your hands off the lever elevator boy"
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 •04/01/2011 12:24 AM (UTC) •
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I second this, I didn't like that book either... although the movie was funny because Robert Redford was in those awful swim trunks.
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The Great Shitsby

"Get your hands off the lever elevator boy"
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 •04/01/2011 01:58 AM (UTC) •
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Hooky-Fooky Wrote:
Bezou Wrote:
Catcher In The Rye.

My wife says Tess of the D'urbervilles.


I 100% agree on Catcher in the Rye. I didn't like it at all.

I think that's the only one I can think of.


Thirded/fourthed. Fucking awful. Really the only "classic" book I couldn't finish. Made it through the fourth chapter before I burned it and buried the ashes.
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 •04/01/2011 03:10 AM (UTC) •
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drpvfx Wrote:
Also, *anything* by Dickens.


Same here, from the books of his I've read so far.

And I've always loved Catcher in the Rye...didn't know so many people didn't. sad
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 •04/01/2011 03:20 AM (UTC) •
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"The Lord Of The Flies".... Enough said
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 •04/01/2011 04:59 AM (UTC) •
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TheNinjasRock071394 Wrote:
"The Lord Of The Flies".... Enough said


This.
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 •04/01/2011 06:00 AM (UTC) •
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TheNinjasRock071394 Wrote:
"The Lord Of The Flies".... Enough said


Oh god, fuck that book to hell. I had to read it in high school and I hated it. furious
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 •04/01/2011 06:10 AM (UTC) •
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I like classic literature but Tale of Two Cities was absolutely brutal. Also anything by H.G. Wells
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 •04/01/2011 10:53 AM (UTC) •
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GodlyShinnok Wrote:
TheNinjasRock071394 Wrote:
"The Lord Of The Flies".... Enough said


This.


I always thought ofg it as histerically funny. Then again I am a sick bastard.
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 •04/01/2011 12:25 PM (UTC) •
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Tale of Two cities or possibly How to kill a mockingbird
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