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Which classic author or book can you not stand, and why?

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Caligulights · 13/12/2004 23:30

Following on from what your favourite book is, who or what do you find unreadable?

Mine are DH Lawrence and Ernest Hemingway - turgid, turgid, turgid, and I've never been fond of the Brontes who strike me as depressing - the only one I like is Anne. I've always hated Charlotte since I found out she dissed Pride and Prejudice and since I tried to read Villette and failed.

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FLOPSEYfairylightswithBUNNIES · 13/12/2004 23:34

oh christ they're all so dull, why just pick one!!

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Caligulights · 13/12/2004 23:39
Grin
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spacedonkey · 13/12/2004 23:40

well, as mentioned on the other thread, thomas hardy does drone on

cab · 13/12/2004 23:44

Fingers down the throat to Mr Lawrence here too - male cp of the first order and boring to boot.
Going back a bit further found Chaucer revolting in the extreme.

turquey · 13/12/2004 23:44

Hated a Christmas Carol - pages and pages on why a doornail could be described as dead!
Couldn't be bothered with Madame bloody Bovary either.

spacedonkey · 13/12/2004 23:45

turq

FLOPSEYfairylightswithBUNNIES · 13/12/2004 23:46

lol, oh god LOL!!

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Caligulights · 13/12/2004 23:47

God yes, Emma Bovary - what an idiot.

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MarsselectionboxLady · 13/12/2004 23:49

Thomas Hardy and Tess of the D'Urbevilles. Also Mill on the Floss. Never managed to finish that book and it is one of the few that I don't regret leaving unfinished and have no desire to return to.

FLOPSEYfairylightswithBUNNIES · 13/12/2004 23:50

tess of the what nots was even boring in AUDIO!!!

FLOPSEYfairylightswithBUNNIES · 13/12/2004 23:51

tess of the what nots was even boring in AUDIO!!!

FLOPSEYfairylightswithBUNNIES · 13/12/2004 23:51

whoops!

FLOPSEYfairylightswithBUNNIES · 13/12/2004 23:51

whoops!

Pidge · 14/12/2004 09:06

To my shame I've never got more than 20 pages into Dickens. And totally agree about Thomas Hardy - utter piffle!

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acnebride · 14/12/2004 09:13

WordsTurdsworth. The Prelude - on and on and on.

moondog · 14/12/2004 09:18

James Joyce

Yaaaaaaaaaaaawn.......

xmascaroltygirl · 14/12/2004 09:33

"The Well of Loneliness" by Radclyffe Hall.

Somehow, a subject and story that in itself could have been fascinating has been mangled so thoroughly by the author's use of language that I couldn't get through it at all.

JoolsTide · 14/12/2004 09:43

Harper Lee - To Kill A Mocking Bird

Everybody raves but I just don't get it.

I kept turning the pages waiting for something to happen. Even the courtroom scene left me feeling flat.

I found it very bland. When I start a book I have to finish it - was I glad this wasn't a tome!

Hazellnut · 14/12/2004 14:38

Agree with Mill on the Floss - actually finished it but hated it all the way through but wasn't going to be beaten !

prufRockingAroundtheXmasTree · 14/12/2004 14:40

George Eliot. Had Daniel Deronda for my mock A-level comprehension piece and got into terrible trouble for writing only half a page, basically saying, this is boring shte. Tried again recently - I though I might eb old enough to appreciate it, but no, still shite

Love DH Lawrence, and all Flaubert

spacedonkey · 14/12/2004 14:41

I do like DH Lawrence's poetry

amynSaintnixmum · 14/12/2004 14:43

Anything by Dickens - yawn!