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RockyBalboa · 10-18-2006, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by SteelBlue

I loved Les Miserables. One of my all time favorites.

I liked Les Miserables when it wasn't boring.

I really like the parts in the cabin/courthouse in the middle of the woods when they were wrongly convicting a man of the Crime that Jean Valjean was guilty of and being a Priest at the time, finally revealing that he was the perpetrator.

Good stuff.....but a lot of boring stuff too.

non sequitur · 10-18-2006, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

You have to have more than naughty words to offend/titilate me (I'm the dude, man).

Explain to me what makes the book so good. Just seemed tedious to me.

At the time I read it, I identified with Holden Caulfield -- a bitter young man growing up into a world for which he had contempt. This line from the book typifies that feeling:

"I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say "Holden Caulfield" on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say "Fuck you." I'm positive, in fact."

I'm sure I wouldn't enjoy the book as much today as I did then, but at the time it was a powerful book for me.

Jeff Lebowski · 10-18-2006, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by non sequitur

At the time I read it, I identified with Holden Caulfield -- a bitter young man growing up into a world for which he had contempt. This line from the book typifies that feeling:

"I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say "Holden Caulfield" on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say "Fuck you." I'm positive, in fact."

I'm sure I wouldn't enjoy the book as much today as I did then, but at the time it was a powerful book for me.

I see. That's probably my problem. I read the book about two decades too late.

Detroitdad · 10-18-2006, 08:35 PM

Geez Rocky stole my thunder with Atlas Shrugged and Les Miserables. I read them back to back because my then girlfriend put them on a reading list we had for one another. I put Catch 22 and Don QUixote, which are the two funniest books that I have ever read on there and she rewards me with that garbage? Then, of course, after that torture, she dumped me.

I must say that the Scarlet Letter is an awful book that has not yet been mentioned.

RockyBalboa · 10-18-2006, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Detroitdad

Geez Rocky stole my thunder with Atlas Shrugged and Les Miserables. I read them back to back because my then girlfriend put them on a reading list we had for one another. I put Catch 22 and Don QUixote, which are the two funniest books that I have ever read on there and she rewards me with that garbage? Then, of course, after that torture, she dumped me.

I must say that the Scarlet Letter is an awful book that has not yet been mentioned.

I also read today that they're planning on bringing Atlas Shrugged to the Big Screen with Angelina Jolie playing the lead character.

Ugh......the movie will be 1905832850 hours long.

Surfah · 10-18-2006, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by RockyBalboa

I also read today that they're planning on bringing Atlas Shrugged to the Big Screen with Angelina Jolie playing the lead character.

Ugh......the movie will be 1905832850 hours long.

Atlas Shrugged was voted the most influential book of the 20th century in some book list.

I finished it a little while ago and posted my review. Not bad, not great. I can see Angelina as Dagny Taggart if they duct tape her breasts. I always pictured Dagny as flat chested.

Every time I drive by the refinery by Wood Cross I think of Wyatt's flame.

RockyBalboa · 10-18-2006, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by surfah33

Atlas Shrugged was voted the most influential book of the 20th century in some book list.

I finished it a little while ago and posted my review. Not bad, not great. I can see Angelina as Dagny Taggart if they duct tape her breasts. I always pictured Dagny as flat chested.

Every time I drive by the refinery by Wood Cross I think of Wyatt's flame.

Me too....funny how I've never seen a buxom feminist.

il Padrino Ute · 10-18-2006, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Detroitdad

Geez Rocky stole my thunder with Atlas Shrugged and Les Miserables. I read them back to back because my then girlfriend put them on a reading list we had for one another. I put Catch 22 and Don QUixote, which are the two funniest books that I have ever read on there and she rewards me with that garbage? Then, of course, after that torture, she dumped me.

I must say that the Scarlet Letter is an awful book that has not yet been mentioned.

Yes. Scarlet Letter was horrid.

SeattleUte · 10-18-2006, 11:15 PM

The Great Apostasy by Talmage is the worst.

The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, and Gibbon are outstanding.
Il Pad, my 16 year old daughter agrees with you, FWIW. Said she couldn't feel any sympathy for Hester Prynne. Kids these days.

Catcher in the Rye isn't terrible, necessarily, but it's monstrously overrated, like To Kill a Mockingbird, Possession, and some others.

creekster · 10-18-2006, 11:22 PM

The Great Apostasy is the worst book you have ever read? Hard to beleive you are being serious about that.

Catcher in the Rye is over rated, IMO. It appealed to the class of educators and ciritcs who were trying to bridge the gap between themsleves and the social upheaval they saw coming but didn't fully understand and they thought it would help them 'relate.' It's OK, but not great.

TO Kill A Mockingbrid Is a very good book, I think. It's appeal may depend somewhat on where you are in your own life. I have watched my 14 yo daughter read it this year and she has been very moved and involved in a way that I have a hard time remembering.

Moby DIck? For me, any book with a maori chracter is A-OK.

The worst book I ever read was one of those "world's greatest salesman" specials from the 60s. What a piece of tripe.

10-18-2006, 11:15 PM	#29
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	The Great Apostasy by Talmage is the worst. The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, and Gibbon are outstanding. Il Pad, my 16 year old daughter agrees with you, FWIW. Said she couldn't feel any sympathy for Hester Prynne. Kids these days. Catcher in the Rye isn't terrible, necessarily, but it's monstrously overrated, like To Kill a Mockingbird, Possession, and some others. __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster

10-18-2006, 11:22 PM	#30
creekster Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: the far corner of my mind Posts: 8,711	The Great Apostasy is the worst book you have ever read? Hard to beleive you are being serious about that. Catcher in the Rye is over rated, IMO. It appealed to the class of educators and ciritcs who were trying to bridge the gap between themsleves and the social upheaval they saw coming but didn't fully understand and they thought it would help them 'relate.' It's OK, but not great. TO Kill A Mockingbrid Is a very good book, I think. It's appeal may depend somewhat on where you are in your own life. I have watched my 14 yo daughter read it this year and she has been very moved and involved in a way that I have a hard time remembering. Moby DIck? For me, any book with a maori chracter is A-OK. The worst book I ever read was one of those "world's greatest salesman" specials from the 60s. What a piece of tripe. __________________ Sorry for th e tpyos.

10-18-2006, 08:35 PM	#24
Detroitdad Resident Jackass Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Roswell, New Mexico Posts: 1,846	Geez Rocky stole my thunder with Atlas Shrugged and Les Miserables. I read them back to back because my then girlfriend put them on a reading list we had for one another. I put Catch 22 and Don QUixote, which are the two funniest books that I have ever read on there and she rewards me with that garbage? Then, of course, after that torture, she dumped me. I must say that the Scarlet Letter is an awful book that has not yet been mentioned.