I think all of Vonnegut is cilantro. At least, everybody seems to love him, and I find him unbearable. Slaughterhouse, Galapogos, that one with the weird Ice, the one where every male character has a parenthetical penis size... disliked them all. Weird that I finished them all, I know, but I liked the stories! Great ideas, painful-to-me execution. I felt much the same about Catch-22, only that one I never bothered to finish.
If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.
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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Gris - Jul 10, 2012 3:31:30 pm PDT #19299 of 28343
Hey. New board.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 10, 2012 3:37:18 pm PDT #19300 of 28343
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I think if you like Ulysses, you will also like Virginia Woolf's The Waves.
I have a love of Thomas Hardy, and I seem to remember everyone else hates him. I can barely abide Hemingway (The Old an and the Sea alomost killed me. See also The Big Two Hearted River) and Steinbeck (that darned The Pearl). Of course, those were also books I had to read in school, where I think they mistook terse and short for easy to read and therefore OK for 7th graders.
Dana - Jul 10, 2012 3:37:58 pm PDT #19301 of 28343
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Thomas Hardy! t hisssss
Sophia Brooks - Jul 10, 2012 3:40:47 pm PDT #19302 of 28343
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Actually, come to think of it, I hated many books we read in school-- I think I only liked The Great Gatsby, Silas Marner, and The Diary of Anne Frank. I have no idea what lead me to be an English Lit major after all those terribly boring books, and it was a little frustrating in high school that I was such a big reader and didn't like anything.
Amy - Jul 10, 2012 3:41:53 pm PDT #19303 of 28343
Because books.
Oh, I also love Hardy! Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of my favorites.
Dana - Jul 10, 2012 3:42:43 pm PDT #19304 of 28343
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I was assigned Pride and Prejudice in AP English and blew it off, did terrible on the test. And then, of course, I loved it. That was not one of my smarter decisions.
Connie Neil - Jul 10, 2012 3:44:02 pm PDT #19305 of 28343
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God bless Mr. Berryhill, who had Lord of the Rings as extra credit and The Hobbit as a required book. And whose Advanced English Lit course was really "How much Shakespeare can we cram into a schoolyear?"
Calli - Jul 10, 2012 3:45:44 pm PDT #19306 of 28343
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Henry James is cilantro, I expect. I love his books, but a number of people don't care for them.
Atropa - Jul 10, 2012 3:46:25 pm PDT #19307 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I probably should eventually read The Man Who Was Thursday. People who write things I love adore the book, so there's a good chance that it would be the sort of literary cilantro I love.
And now I'm wondering what else is literary cilantro.
I can, as an intelectual exercise, see where some of Ray Bradbury's work would be not to some people's tastes. In fact, there are times when I fear that Pete will eventually read Something Wicked This Way Comes or From Dust Returned and HATE them. And then I'd be horrified and sad.
Oh! Francesca Lia Block. I love love love her writing, but I'm certain other people think it's way too twee.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 10, 2012 3:49:26 pm PDT #19308 of 28343
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I have to confess I could not get through LOTR or the Hobbit, either...