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"Wuthering Heights" by one of the Bronte sisters is the absolute worst book I have ever read....had to read it in high school.....and the Cliffnotes version was better.
Also "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt was a terrible, boring, impossible book and I'm glad that man ain't writing no more.
I liked both of them. But I had to read "Wuthering Heights" again a few years after leaving school to be able to appreciate it. Somehow it is difficult to enjoy books you are obliged to read at school.
"Angela´s Ashes" is terribly sad but gives you a good description of the type of like many people lived in Ireland not many years ago.
I actually liked a lot of the books I had to read from school, especially Shakespeare plays like Julius Caesar and Romeo Juliet and Dickens' Tale of Two Cities. Wuthering Hiehgts stands out as a boring, convoluted, poorly plotted rambling book.
I actually liked a lot of the books I had to read from school, especially Shakespeare plays like Julius Caesar and Romeo Juliet and Dickens' Tale of Two Cities. Wuthering Hiehgts stands out as a boring, convoluted, poorly plotted rambling book.
Any book that I HAD to read for a HS English class? Never helped me in my life, never brought home a paycheck, never lead to any conversation that made me seem witty, engaging or knowledgeable. So why did we have to waste all tht time reading the "Red Badge of Courage", Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice & Men, etc. when we could have just rented the video? All those choices are stupid, unless you're into that specific genre; Romance novel for the Jane Eyre/W.Heights...Talk about dreck, mawkish dribble & too much self-introspection! OMG give it a rest already Bronte sisters! What makes it so bad? I turn on PBS for a good Masterpiece theatre? and what do I get? something that is BASED ON THESE sisters' real lives romance, yuck! who cares about some pretentious ugly Brit babes with too much time, and money on their hands?
Any book that I HAD to read for a HS English class? Never helped me in my life, never brought home a paycheck, never lead to any conversation that made me seem witty, engaging or knowledgeable. So why did we have to waste all tht time reading the "Red Badge of Courage", Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice & Men, etc. when we could have just rented the video? All those choices are stupid, unless you're into that specific genre; Romance novel for the Jane Eyre/W.Heights...Talk about dreck, mawkish dribble & too much self-introspection! OMG give it a rest already Bronte sisters! What makes it so bad? I turn on PBS for a good Masterpiece theatre? and what do I get? something that is BASED ON THESE sisters' real lives romance, yuck! who cares about some pretentious ugly Brit babes with too much time, and money on their hands?
You basically just questioned why anyone would ever read a book when there're plenty of nice movies out there... Ignorant anti-intellectualism at work.
Maybe the Books Forum isn't the right place for ya.
The Reivers, you mean the flick with Steve McQueen? It was silly, and I think that the book would'nt be much different. IMHO
Oh god no! Don't judge the book by that wretched movie. Same title and little else. Yuck!
But on second thought if you didn't like "To kill a Mockingbird" or "Of mice and Men", then you won't like "The Reivers".
Last edited by laysayfair; 06-11-2008 at 11:10 PM..
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As I was turning the pages of Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes" I was hoping, pleading, "OMG, let something good happen to these people, when are they going to get a break?!?" But they never did. I guess I kept reading that sad story due to curiosity. But I like a good, mawkish Fairytale ending "living happily ever after hitting the Irish Sweepstakes with that last shilling she had for potato money".
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