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Constance: You are obviously much younger than I. When I was 12-13, I used to read Dennis Wheatley....and I still like his books. They scared me stiff...but he has gone out of fashion. He has had a tremendous effect on my psyche. Like Stephen King - his characters get under your skin, but without the bad language. I love Stephen King - his books frighten me to death - but the trouble is with such awful bad language, it gets into your vocabulary - and I wouldn't want people to hear the 'words' I was thinking!!! So I stopped reading him in case the words slipped out and shocked my family!!!  |
I can't say his books really scare me too much. I think intrigue me is a better word  . I actually just enjoy his weird stories. Only a couple really scared me. They get too supernatural and far-fetched in the end for me to be scared. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was a little scary because getting lost in the woods is a more real fear. Things that are reality based scare me more than supernatural stuff. |
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Audrey - I would once have said it is because you are American that you couldn't get Jane Eyre. But my daughter who was born and bred here, quite close to the Yorkshire Moors, also hated her.
You could try - The Wild Sargasso Sea - by Jean Rees. That is about Mrs. Rochester - the mad woman in the tower (as we get older, we all relate to her - believe me). It is a very good read anyway. |
It's funny. I love Jane Eyre, but could not get into Wide? Sargasso Sea. 
Anyway...can't read any horror. Westerns don't interest me.
Books I have tried but couldn't get into:
Unbearable Lightness of Being
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I really loved ' The Unbearable Lightness of Being' by Milan Kunduras???......
But when the film was to be broadcast....and I suggested to my husband that we watch it....he was shocked.....it was a bit pornographic....
I just thought how great it would be to live in a society where they had that 'Cafe Culture' - sat around drinking coffee and discussing what the hell it was all about...
West Bank of Paris - Beatniks were like that once. So I suppose I am before the hippy era - more of a Beatnik me!!! |
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Every time we try to type the name of the man who wrote 'Oliver Twist' we get a bleep. A few days ago I tried to say that Shakespeare and the man who wrote Oliver Twist - were nasty about the Jews. ie Shylock and Fagin.
Anyway I got Shakespeare and Bleep - I think it might be the CK thing - they think we are using the F-Word - Ha!!!! |
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It could have been immaturity, but our great classic, Moby Dick, no way. I fell asleep many times over that. I was especially annoyed at the parts where Melville would talk about whaling, once "proving" that whales were so numerous in the oceans as to be inexhaustible. Should I go back and give the great albino another chance? Anyone out there admire this book?
With the strong exception of Huckleberry Finn, I don't much enjoy Mark Twain. Oh, also Ernest Hemmingway is a writer whose reputation as a great writer is a mystery to me. I'm always open to reconsidering any judgment.
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| I just thought how great it would be to live in a society where they had that 'Cafe Culture' - sat around drinking coffee and discussing what the hell it was all about... |
Oh, Penelope you have no idea. You're not the only one being jealous. I envy the café discussions... |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:39 am Post subject: About as crazy as Urantia?
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The Xtian Bible. I just dont get it...
Atlas Shrugged. Characters are so shallow and thin and so is the 'plot'.
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Ever try reading through Urantia Book? It's sort of an 'alien bible'.
Absolutely mind boggling to try and understand that. |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:42 am Post subject: Re: don't make me read...
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Stephen King - I tried to read "It" when it came out and it just went on and on with too much detail about nothing. ick. Although I did read one of his latest, Cell, as a quick fluff read. Not my usual genre or storyline but fun for what it was. I've also gotten two copies of Liseys Story and can't get into it...again with the rambling detail...
I wish I could appreciate what others do about King. |
I agree . . . IT is one of the few books by SK that I didn't like. CELL . . . I listened to that on an audio version - the story itself is intriguing but the way he wrote it in that long dragged out way of his - tedious. |
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One of the books on here right now . . . I am going to do a few more pages - not fair to give up this soon, I guess.
I don't like it much though - I find the wordiness makes it a tedious read. Too much crammed into one sentence in narrative makes it difficult. |
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It could have been immaturity, but our great classic, Moby Dick, no way. I fell asleep many times over that. I was especially annoyed at the parts where Melville would talk about whaling, once "proving" that whales were so numerous in the oceans as to be inexhaustible. Should I go back and give the great albino another chance? Anyone out there admire this book?
With the strong exception of Huckleberry Finn, I don't much enjoy Mark Twain. Oh, also Ernest Hemmingway is a writer whose reputation as a great writer is a mystery to me. I'm always open to reconsidering any judgment.
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I have to agree. I was required to read Moby Dick in 11th grade and couldn't finish it. I just read the Cliffs Notes and aced my test - in fact, I got the highest grade in the class
I never got Hemmingway either. I only read a Farewell to Arms, but it was so depressing and the characters were so blah, I never wanted to read anything else by him. |
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Dickens - Dickens - Dickens
I just typed the name of the man who wrote Oliver Twist - three times - just testing.
The thing about Moby Dick was.....it made a great film.
Has anyone ever watched the film. Educating Rita? From the play by Willie Russell:-
How would you stage an Ibsen play? Put it on the Radio, she said. |
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Hello Veerwald -
Test positive - Do you want to join in?
What books/authors have had an effect on your life?  |
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| I just recently finished reading "The Keep" by Jennifer Eagan and was disapointed with it. The premise was interesting and I had been excited to read it but I felt it was confusing and fell flat, but maybe I just expected too much. Has anyone else read this? |
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