Yeh Tintin books are good but I kinda kept wishing he'd come out and get it over with.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 1 2009, 2:35 PM BSTI generally love 19th century novels, but never got on with Henry James either.
I may dislike Jane Eyre but I can atleast recognise good writing. Henry James is just shit.
Chaucer -- The Canterbury Tales
The main reason for my hatred of this is that my prof. was from Brooklyn, so it was always Chawwwwsir. And all he ever said was "Dat it's awll about sex."
I suppose being told to a read a book to pass an exam and gain a qualification is technically a 'recommendation', if that's the case, Thomas Hardy sucks donkey balls.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 1 2009, 2:39 PM BSTThomas Hardy sucks donkey balls.
Which one was it? Under the Greenwood Tree isn't so great a read.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 1 2009, 2:35 PM BSTThe Anne Rice vampire novels - urgh.
And let's not forget Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.
Quote: sootyj @ August 1 2009, 2:37 PM BSTI may dislike Jane Eyre but I can atleast recognise good writing. Henry James is just shit.
The Turn of the Screw was tedious.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 1 2009, 2:39 PM BSTThomas Hardy sucks donkey balls.
No way! Jude the Obscure - wunnerful.
He was a miserable tosser wasn't he ad Dorset's really pretty what's his excuse?
Salman Rushdi and most of the Booker Prize winners. Hey brainiacs all the top writers sell enough books to not need any stinky prize money!
So yes I think Andy McNab and Jordan are superior to Salman Rushdi and the f**ker who wrote about a tiger on a boat.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 1 2009, 2:35 PM BSTThe Anne Rice vampire novels - urgh. 500 pages of fruity vamps having a cry. A My Guy true love photo story was a grittier, more masculine slice of brutalised realism in comparison.
Here here books where Vampires kill people good.
Books where vampires snog people and mope shit.
Try Nancy A Collins she writes some hardcore vampire shit and of course Salem's Lot.
Quote: sootyj @ August 1 2009, 2:22 PM BSTThe Portrait of Lady, Jane Eyre amongst others made my A level english torturous.
If we are talking A levels, I had to do DH Lawrence, and if that was not bad enough Thomas Hardy - and not just the novels, the f**king poems. And even those were not bad as T.S. Eliot.
And when they did give us a decent book, we had to write utter shite about it, "Discuss Oscar Wilde's didactic intent in The Importance of Being Earnest. 
The teaching of literature in schools should be banned.
Agree with Timbo. Anything by DH Lawrence. Especially his poetry and The Rainbow.
Quote: Timbo @ August 1 2009, 2:50 PM BSTThe teaching of literature in schools should be banned.
I agree, Mr Goebbels.
Quote: Tim Walker @ August 1 2009, 2:51 PM BSTI agree, Mr Goebbels.
Think it was Goerring who said, "whenever I hear the word 'culture' I reach for my revolver". The Third Reich wasn't all bad.
Quote: Timbo @ August 1 2009, 2:54 PM BSTThink it was Goerring who said, "whenever I hear the words 'The Culture Show' I reach for my revolver".
...was the actual quote, I think you'll find. 
Quote: Tim Walker @ August 1 2009, 2:51 PM BSTAgree with Timbo. Anything by DH Lawrence. Especially his poetry and The Rainbow.
I used to dislike Lawrence in school. But I enjoyed Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley. 
Quote: Timbo @ August 1 2009, 2:50 PM BSTThe teaching of literature in schools should be banned.
But then theere'd be no enjoyable lessons.
Quote: Timbo @ August 1 2009, 2:50 PM BSTIf we are talking A levels, I had to do DH Lawrence, and if that was not bad enough Thomas Hardy - and not just the novels, the f**king poems. And even those were not bad as T.S. Eliot.
And when they did give us a decent book, we had to write utter shite about it, "Discuss Oscar Wilde's didactic intent in The Importance of Being Earnest.
The teaching of literature in schools should be banned.
To persuade other men to have sex with him is surely the answer?
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 1 2009, 2:56 PM BSTI used to dislike Lawrence in school. But I enjoyed Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley.
Everyone loves Lady Chatterley (for the naughty bits)...I had to read it for a lit. class and found an unabridged audiobook version read by Judi Dench that I brought in for the class to hear. Fantastic site seeing all the future military guys (ROTC) getting either uncomfortable or turned on.
Quote: AndreaLynne @ August 1 2009, 3:00 PM BSTEveryone loves Lady Chatterley (for the naughty bits)...I had to read it for a lit. class and found an unabridged audiobook version read by Judi Dench that I brought in for the class to hear. Fantastic site seeing all the future military guys (ROTC) getting either uncomfortable or turned on.
Quote: Griff @ August 1 2009, 2:56 PM BSTif it wasn't for school - and which I'm glad I did read - include Lord Of The Flies, 1984 and Shakespeare's plays.
I had to read these at school and really, really enjoyed them. I remember getting to the end of 1984 and feeling utterly depressed. I wanted to do a sequel in which Chuck Norris and a gang of cyber ninjas attacked the Ministry of Truth and rescued Winston Smith.
As for Shakey's plays, it was a mixed bag for me. MacBeth, King Lear and Julius Caesar rocked - the rest, not so much.