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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:05 pm

klr wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:I'm readin Tess of the D'Urbevilles at the mo...
I read it at university. :read:

Oddly enough, this was in the first year of a Bachelor of Commerce. I don't think there's any room in a business degree for such luxuries as English literature any more. :levi:
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:06 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:I'm readin Tess of the D'Urbevilles at the mo...
Great book - I read it 20 years ago or so.
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:07 pm

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Clinton Huxley wrote:I'm readin Tess of the D'Urbevilles at the mo...
Great book - I read it 20 years ago or so.
Quite enjoying it but not as many belly laughs as I was expecting
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Svartalf » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:08 pm

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Svartalf wrote:Classics you should read Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais; L'Assommoir, by Emile Zola

Classics to avoid : anything by Honoré de Balzac or Stendhal... I swear, I prefer Dickens to either of those
Reading that now. :dance:
Enjoy... it's not necessarily my own favorite, but it's one of the best written in the whole series.
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by klr » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:08 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:
klr wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:I'm readin Tess of the D'Urbevilles at the mo...
I read it at university. :read:

Oddly enough, this was in the first year of a Bachelor of Commerce. I don't think there's any room in a business degree for such luxuries as English literature any more. :levi:
How terribly civilised.
Terribly. :tea:

But by the third year, we had descended into typical back-stabbing ultra-ambitious business students ... :shifty:

Anyway, back on topic ...

Classic you should read:

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Classic you shouldn't read:

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:09 pm

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Clinton Huxley wrote:I'm readin Tess of the D'Urbevilles at the mo...
Great book - I read it 20 years ago or so.
Quite enjoying it but not as many belly laughs as I was expecting
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Pappa » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:12 pm

Should: 1984

Shouldn't: Brave New World
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by klr » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:14 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:I'm readin Tess of the D'Urbevilles at the mo...
Great book - I read it 20 years ago or so.
Quite enjoying it but not as many belly laughs as I was expecting
I have (unsurprisingly) a huge collection of Trollopes if you're interested. :tea:
Read that last line very quickly, and ... :hehe:

Classic you should read:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Pride and Prejudice is a decent read. :read:

Classic you shouldn't read ... hold on:
Pappa wrote:Should: 1984
:tup:
Pappa wrote: ...
Shouldn't: Brave New World
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Cunt » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:16 pm

Should: All Quiet On The Western Front, Demon Haunted World

Shouldn't: G.E.B. - An Eternal Golden Braid, All Quiet On The Western Front
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Svartalf » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:18 pm

Pappa wrote:Should: 1984

Shouldn't: Brave New World
another cas of inverted books...
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by BrettA » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:22 pm

Don't Panic wrote:...Classic you shouldn't read:

Ulysses, James Joyce.
But... but... but... then you'd miss that great-but-obvious come-on line for redheads:

"You know what James Joyce said about you, huh? 'Redheads buck like goats'... Care to play show and tell?"
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Pappa » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:22 pm

Svartalf wrote:
Pappa wrote:Should: 1984

Shouldn't: Brave New World
another cas of inverted books...
Pah! I challenge you to a duel!
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Svartalf » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:27 pm

BrettA wrote:
Don't Panic wrote:...Classic you shouldn't read:

Ulysses, James Joyce.
But... but... but... then you'd miss that great-but-obvious come-on line for redheads:

"You know what James Joyce said about you, huh? 'Redheads buck like goats'... Care to play show and tell?"
I'd gladly see how much you buck.
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Svartalf » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:27 pm

Pappa wrote:
Svartalf wrote:
Pappa wrote:Should: 1984

Shouldn't: Brave New World
another cas of inverted books...
Pah! I challenge you to a duel!
cream pies at ten paces, is it?
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Azathoth » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:28 pm

Should: Down and Out in Paris and London-Orwell
Shouldn't: Faust-Goethe
Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.

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