Xysea 's comments
Xysea 's comments from the Books I Loathed group.
Note: Xysea is no longer a member of this group.
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Natalie, don't you mean Lewis Carroll, who wrote Jabberwocky?
Jackie, I agree with both your choices. To Kill A Mockingbird is probably my favorite book, ever.
Dianna,I like your idea. If you post it, they will come. :)
Dianna,
That parody of yours cracked me up! Thanks!
Jason, I don't care for Virginia either. To The Lighthouse was a slog, and Mrs Dalloway didn't hold me either. So, we're in the same boat.
I did manage Ulysses - for school - and found myself getting into it eventually.
I do like Faulkner, though. Which of Faulkner's have you tried?
I went through this kind of 'soul' searching phase, where I read about all kinds of deals with the devil, read dantes inferno, read paradise lost. all were difficult, some were boring, but all were rewarding to me in my journey.
I think Faust was better as an opera or a play - I didn't care for Goethe's book. But, as has been mentioned elsewhere, it does depend upon the translation.
Like Jason, I tried LOTR. I couldn't do it. But this was back in middle school after I'd read the Hobbit. Different kettle of fish altogether.However, I re-read LOTR when I became an adult and really got into them and could appreciate the significance of myth and the more adult themes in the books. I quite enjoyed them.
Some things take time. Others, like Henry James? Well, there isn't enough time in the world! lol
Hi Natalie!You're right. We're being childish. I'm willing to stop and bring this back to the topic at hand.
Yes, I had mixed feelings about Geek Love. It's not on my favorites list, but I felt that any writing that could make me loathe or question a character as much as I did Artie is probably good writing. lol So, I gave it three stars. It's definitely original AND interesting.
Sure, Laura. Because this joke:Hey, it looks like you need to remove the lump of coal up your ass or risk permanent disfigurement from the diamond that is forming up there!
Cool.
Had a smiley, right? When you get mad, you're wrong *a lot*!
Actually you said 'Than again' which is incorrect.*sigh*
And I didn't need any outside help on *that* one.
I'm surprised you know what a joke book is, Laura, considering you appear to have absolutely not one shred of a sense of humor.
I love how you feel the need to go back and edit your posts because you think you've found something cleverer to say than your original remark.Ruffled?
Example:
message 70: by Laura (last edited 12/08/2007 09:07AM)
2 minutes ago
187043-p1-1184255514 Hey, looks like you need to go look up "bitter" too! Cool.
Than again, come to think of it, dictionaries won't show connotative meanings, which are probably a little beyond you. (You'll be needing to look up "connotative.")
No, nothing at all. I always use them. :)Should I be using frownies? lmao
I'm not being passive, Laura. I'm engaging you directly. :)
Oh and the 'I'm not bitter' followed by a bitter and caustic remark? Hilarious! Keep 'em coming. You're demonstrating for everyone your true colors better than I could ever explain.A lot of people like Henry James, but I find his work tedious and dull, - longwinded sentences, trite subjects.
:)
Pot meet kettle. A lot of people project things they don't like about themselves onto others. *sigh*
I thought Tess of the D'Urbevilles was hard to like.
Nice edit on Message 59, Laura. "h, I forgot -- Xysea is a friend of the moderator. Nice."Bitter much?
Have a *wonderful* fun-filled day, yourself! :)
Another book that I have trouble liking was Geek Love - I wanted to like it, but still wasn't sure if the author deliberately make some of the characters so loathsome as to make the book unlikeable.
Laura,
Who knows? I suppose the Admins are free to delete whatever they like, but they don't seem to have taken issue with my post. I'm sure they will be sure to contact me if they do, but so far nada.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand - I wish I could have loved War and Peace, but no go.
Books I wished I had liked:
The Crimson Petal and the White, The Historian spring to mind.
It's terrible when you think a book is going to be great and its merely 'meh'.
I've got 'The Road' checked out because someone said I 'must' read that book, even if I've read nothing else of McCarthy's. Well, I have read nothing else of his; In fact, I've avoided him like the plague up until now.
I'll let you know how it goes...I feel like I'm taking one for the 'BIL' team but L's comment above has cheered me up somewhat.
For a while, when I first came to Goodreads and found this group, I had this perverse need to read all the bad books people complained about here - I was all, 'It couldn't be *that* bad, could it?' But oh yes, it could be. And was.
I had to stop. It was killing me. ;)
