Books you've left unfinished.

[Chuffy]

Why should anyone take any notice of someone who fails to comprehend Wuthering Heights as a masterpiece but believes the 'Da Vinci Code' is worthy of attention?

Christ

Why are certain books (films, albums etc) deemed beyond criticism? The Da Vinci Code was utter toss, but passed a few hours. No one has ever tried to stuff it down my throat as a literary classic though. Unlike Wuthering bleedin' Heights.

 

[redcogs]

Why are certain books (films, albums etc) deemed beyond criticism? The Da Vinci Code was utter toss, but passed a few hours. No one has ever tried to stuff it down my throat as a literary classic though. Unlike Wuthering bleedin' Heights.

There could be a good reason for that?

 

[rich p]

Ulysses of course.

Oh and the Bible too. It does go on!

 

[Chuffy]

There could be a good reason for that?

Look, if you want to tug your proletarian forelock to whatever the commissars of literary taste tell you to, that's fine with me. But I think it's a crap book. The only redeeming feature is that it inspired Kate Bush.

Rich P - Thanks for reminding me of James Joyce.

 

[redcogs]

Look, if you want to tug your proletarian forelock to whatever the commissars of literary taste tell you to, that's fine with me. But I think it's a crap book. The only redeeming feature is that it inspired Kate Bush.

Rich P - Thanks for reminding me of James Joyce.

Common ground at last.

 

[simon l& and a half]

Atonement. Pretentious and tedious. It won't therefore become the film I walk out of, as I wont walk in in the first place.

http://www.anothercyclingforum.com/index.php?topic=40432.0
in case you have second thoughts

 

[Chuffy]

I did 'O' and 'A' level English Lit btw. Oh and studied it at degree level. There's nothing so off putting than being told that you have to read some dire old pile of tripe and that it is a classic, no argument allowed. Left to my own devices I'd have avoided the whole miserable lot of them, as it is I have a positively volcanic loathing of pretty much anything that you can turn into a costume drama.

 

[redcogs]

All farmers are dirty disease promoting greed filled tax evading public subsidy abusing swine.

 

[Chuffy]

All farmers are dirty disease promoting greed filled tax evading public subsidy abusing swine.

Were you bitten by one as a child?

 

[marinyork]

There do seem to be a lot of people that get put off classics at O level or GCSE. Didn't have any of that myself, we read a book called Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry which was a dreadfully melodramatic and simple book and one of the worst books I've ever read. I'd have much preferred to have been force read classics to death.

 

[jonesy]

http://www.anothercyclingforum.com/index.php?topic=40432.0
in case you have second thoughts

Thank you simon! A most excellent review! You've convinced me...

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

Thank you simon! A most excellent review! You've convinced me...

I'm confused by his reference to Mrs L3. Has Simon now got three wives? Is he entitled to break the speed limit while driving from one to the other to perform his matrimonial duties?

 

[simon l& and a half]

I'm confused by his reference to Mrs L3. Has Simon now got three wives? Is he entitled to break the speed limit while driving from one to the other to perform his matrimonial duties?

I am serially monogamous. And I don't drive. And it's never a duty, always a pleasure

 

[marinyork]

Why don't you post reviews like that on here!

 

[simon l& and a half]

horses for courses, darling. If you ask nicely I might direct you to one of my restaurant reviews, but I know full well that Spire would give it the 'champagne socialist' treatment.