Oh yes, Tolkien’s stuff. Can’t get past the Shire.
Every. Single. f***ing. One. Of. Them.Which Dickens book is it that opens with an intensely detailed, lengthy and tedious account of…
David Copperfield starts with his birth and his aunt Betsy Trotwood storming off because he's not a girl. Dombey and Son starts with the birth of Dombey's son and the fussing around of the doctor.Which Dickens book is it that opens with an intensely detailed, lengthy and tedious account of the narrator's own birth?
Because I f***ed that off and it can keep right on f***ing off as far as I'm concerned.
Also - Lord of the Rings. Never made it out of the Shire.
Oh yeah, this as well.Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho...
the egregiously grotesque violence that was either meant to be real or meant to be psychosis (in the end I lost the will to find out...
I did finish LotR, which i absolutely hated, having loved the Hobbit.I finished Les Miserables, but it took me about five years, putting it down with a bookmark in, reading something else and picking it up again every year or two. I've never got to the end of the musical though.
I read The Lord of The Rings in a similar way. An absolute chore. I'd seen Ralph Bakshi's film as a kid and wanted to know how it ended. It's a good story, but JRR's a terribly dull and long winded writer, most of it seems to be descriptions of landscapes.
Pretty sure it was David Copperfield. I picked it up from the shelf in Lewes train station waiting room while waiting for the train to Seaford.David Copperfield starts with his birth and his aunt Betsy Trotwood storming off because he's not a girl. Dombey and Son starts with the birth of Dombey's son and the fussing around of the doctor.
Christ.Oh yeah, this as well.
I gave it to some guy I lived with who apparently really dug both the excessive and seemingly pointless violence, and the lengthy digressions on f***ing Genesis.
I did pay attention to the bit about shaving around the sides of the face first to give the tricky chin bits longer to soften. It may well be bollocks though. And I don't shave often anyway because since most of my hair dissappeared I get nutty women from Blackpool coming up to me and insisting that I not merely resemble Prince William but am in fact actually him, unless I have some sort of beard.
I got a free whisky from the sympathetic barman at least.Christ.
Every. Single. f***ing. One. Of. Them.
You reminded me.Catch 22
American Psycho
Prophet Song
Pretty sure it was David Copperfield. I picked it up from the shelf in Lewes train station waiting room while waiting for the train to Seaford.
Somehow, the wait for the train seemed to last longer than it would have done if I'd spent the time setting my watch by the station clock.
Hardy’s good for that as well. He’s a great writer, but when you come out of one of his novels you’re measuring time in epochs. You can almost feel the continents bouncing off each other and the implosion of nearby stars.
Probably only Ulysses-Portrait of An Artist As A Young Man was great - maybe should give another go.But are highly rated
Ulysses, Wolf Hall, Paradise Lost and Captain Corelli‘s Mandolin for me
Yes I know I am a peasant/philistine
I know some people who NEVER give up on a book, my wife is one of them, you?
I've read quite a few Dickens and really enjoyed them. David Copperfield is my favourite and I loved the birth scene. Like Hugo, he was a bit of an old windbag though. If you think that was dull, don't ever read the beginning of Bleak House. That really is a slog. I didn't start reading them for pleasure until I was in my forties. It took me that long to get over being forced to read him as a teenager.Pretty sure it was David Copperfield. I picked it up from the shelf in Lewes train station waiting room while waiting for the train to Seaford.
Somehow, the wait for the train seemed to last longer than it would have done if I'd spent the time setting my watch by the station clock.
I'm a bit like your wife I never give up on a book once I've started. But having finally waded through the tedium of 'Wings of The Dove' I swore a blood oath at midnight on All Hallows Eve that I would never again pick up anything by Henry James again. He's a tedious old bastard.But are highly rated
Ulysses, Wolf Hall, Paradise Lost and Captain Corelli‘s Mandolin for me
Yes I know I am a peasant/philistine
I know some people who NEVER give up on a book, my wife is one of them, you?