aristof_ns
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« on: May 28, 2008, 01:37:20 PM » |
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(Surprised that I can't find this topic already in existence!)
I'll start with the one that ticks people off when they find out, and then add others as I remember them:
Heart of Darkness -- I think I gave up long before they arrived at Kurtz's place....
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Is not American literature the minor literature par excellence, insofar as America claims to federate the most diverse minorities, “a Nation swarming with nations”? —Gilles Deleuze
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« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2008, 01:40:35 PM » |
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Moby Dick.
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« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2008, 01:42:39 PM » |
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Ulysses.
Still can't bring myself to care enough to finish it. And now I know I will be flamed....
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"Silence is golden; duct tape is silver."
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« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2008, 01:42:39 PM » |
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I have never made it all the way through "The Agony and the Ecstasy". I get started, but some one or two week problem/event always happens about midway through the story. I have seen the movie several times, but the book has so much more.
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« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2008, 01:50:41 PM » |
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Ulysses.
Still can't bring myself to care enough to finish it. And now I know I will be flamed....
I don't think I finished my second reading of the Odyssey, and I've never wanted to teach it either... |
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Is not American literature the minor literature par excellence, insofar as America claims to federate the most diverse minorities, “a Nation swarming with nations”? —Gilles Deleuze
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larryc
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Eschew the hu.
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« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2008, 01:52:46 PM » |
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Ulysses. No one but the typesetter knows what is on the last page of that book. |
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« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2008, 01:56:18 PM » |
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Ulysses.
Still can't bring myself to care enough to finish it. And now I know I will be flamed....
I don't think I finished my second reading of the Odyssey, and I've never wanted to teach it either... I didn't finish either of those, if that's any consolation... My list of "great" books I couldn't finish is a bit long... not to mention the ones I didn't even start... LOL Which one shall I add here? hmmm... 100 Years of Solitude. |
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Yes, indeed!
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« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2008, 04:26:57 PM » |
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Musil's Man without Qualities. It seems few of us have ever gotten through the first volume (or anywhere close), let alone volume 2.
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Be Bulgarian, Jeeves.
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« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2008, 04:59:06 PM » |
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The Pearl
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« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2008, 05:04:10 PM » |
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Two very different ones: "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "Pilgrim's Progress".
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« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2008, 05:04:53 PM » |
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Ulysses. No one but the typesetter knows what is on the last page of that book. Yes. VP |
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« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2008, 05:23:48 PM » |
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I raise my hand for 100 Years of Solitude too.
Also, Absalom, Absalom!
Now that I've remembered them again I'm planning on giving these both a good college try this summer.
But I did make it through Ulysses. It's amazing what love can do. (I was infatuated with a guy who was writing about Joyce. Hey, and it worked too--we got together shortly after I finished it).
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« Reply #12 on: May 28, 2008, 05:37:47 PM » |
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I raise my hand for 100 Years of Solitude too.
Also, Absalom, Absalom!
Now that I've remembered them again I'm planning on giving these both a good college try this summer.
Is that a grad school try or an underclassman try? ;) |
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Is not American literature the minor literature par excellence, insofar as America claims to federate the most diverse minorities, “a Nation swarming with nations”? —Gilles Deleuze
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« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2008, 05:42:38 PM » |
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Plutarch's "Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans" (English Translation)
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« Reply #14 on: May 28, 2008, 05:49:13 PM » |
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Ulysses.
Still can't bring myself to care enough to finish it. And now I know I will be flamed....
I don't think I finished my second reading of the Odyssey, and I've never wanted to teach it either... Second reading -- so it doesn't count. The Odyssey's awesome, and students respond pretty well. Now, there are quite a few skimmable bits in the Iliad... Anything Proust. Wuthering Heights. |
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