Unpopular opinions part 3

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Just happened upon the last one and liked it, so ...

I don't think The King's Speech is that great a film; I think the directing was often unimaginative, cliched and banal and the script obvious. And Helena Bonham Carter wasn't that good.

I totally agree, LeQueen (hello, by the way)

One of my old English Lit' lecturers, very well-read lady and from gentry to boot, adored supposedly low-brow literature. She had a penchant for Joanna Trollope and she told us that as an impoverished MA student in New York, she used to write smut for, ahem, men's magazines. I loved her. No pretentions whatsoever.

Oh and why has no-one mentioned Thomas bleeding Hardy? Why use one paragraph to describe a field when one can use six pages?

Oh and from low-brow sraight into the gutter: Katie Price should have her children taken off her and they should be handed to Brangelina.

I agree with you LeQ, but I am excusing you as my guru for not answering my urgent cleaning question.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are mad, and worse, annoying. And Suri is going to grow up to be a total freak.

Hi, MadMomma, OP here. I'm not a troll, and I'm not sad or bitter or into bitching about anyone. My first post was a pretty innocuous one about a film. Others have chosen to use the thread to voice perhaps more 'serious' unpopular opinions, but the overall tone is mild and, I feel, within acceptable boundaries of courtesy.

I hate Hardy.

People who think genre fiction is lowbrow just don't know their literature very well. Allegory; revenge tragedy; the courtly tradition, etc etc. All genre stuff. Tarantino could have nicked all his scripts from Kyd and Marlowe, and Alan Moore's riffs on Victorian literature in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is squarely in the classical tradition of imitation.

The idea of 'literary fiction' is a 20th-century invention, and I say balls to it.

I loathe Dickens - too much dull and superfluous description. Hardy is nearly as bad, but at least his plots are more engaging.

Hey Getorf, the gasket blew on mine as well. The garage tried to tell me it would cost £800 to fix. I got a Landrover one for £75, took a week off work and replaced it myself. Then I did the exhaust, alternator and brakes.

I LOVE that I'm a better mechanic than all my bloke mates!!

I was about to say that about Dickens, too!

I am deeply suspicious of anyone who claims to love a particular author or genre. It usually means they read one or two works and didn't find them too tricky.

I do love Dubliners, mind. Not Ulysses. I tried a few times and have dismissed it as utter wank. I enjoy Hardy's prose, but his stories leave something to be desired.

A lot of classics are actually quite dull and most of them were just the pulp fiction of their day.

Having said that, I dislike a lot of modern literature too. There's too much storyline often and not enough attention paid to the language. I guess it's just a matter of taste.

LeQueen was yours a joint honours - Lit and Lang? I seem to remember you studied English Language.

I hate books written in the present tense. I don't know why, it just annoys me.

In a certain mood, I'm rather fond of Hardy. It's all so melodramatic. At sixth form we used to award points for those who could get the phrase "grotesque prestidigitation" into a sentence after reading it in Tess. Not keen on any Austen's other than Pride and Prejudice.

I leave lights on and don't always turn the TV of at the switch.
I get bored with all the re-cycling and sometimes put things in the wrong bin

Eco-friendly "green" people are ofetn very dull and way too "worthy" for my tastes.

Orf with your head.

Oh, if I believed in hell I'd be going there.
But I would know lots of people so it would be fine!!

I've read each Harry Potter book at least three times. I've also read the Twilight series but they're just not as good.

Salmotrutta. I did think of you today as got a whistle when I went into town!!!!

YOu got to do some running my friend.....

You got a whistle boo??

Oh and Harry Potter is over-hyped crap. And adults who read them are in need of help. Hah!

I told you! They all do it here and it was a rather young (almost enough to be my son) handsome chap no less. I did literally think of you immediately!!!!!

You may melt the ice though, so might sink....

Oooooh - young you say?
Hahaha - life sounds very laid back over there.

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