I liked having my wisdom teeth pulled better than Ethan Frome.
Zombies! Hyena people! Snyder!
Student ,'Touched'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Ginger - May 28, 2004 4:00:41 am PDT #2945 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Steph L. - May 28, 2004 4:20:36 am PDT #2946 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I liked back surgery more than Ethan Frome.
Hil R. - May 28, 2004 4:24:02 am PDT #2947 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Megan, that's it exactly. I want to believe the tiger story. And I'm thinking maybe that was the point.
Ginger - May 28, 2004 4:24:15 am PDT #2948 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I liked breaking a bone in my hand better than Ethan Frome. In fact, the only experiences in my life that I liked less than Ethan Frome were a ruptured ovarian cyst, moving and chemotherapy.
Nutty - May 28, 2004 4:33:33 am PDT #2949 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
So the question is, why do all the schools make us read it??
Also, I want to have a talk with the first person who put Bartleby the Scrivener into the curriculum.
I'm currently reading Hard Times, and sometimes I forget in Dickens's customary frothiness and overdone-ness that he can sometimes luck himself into great hushed pointful prose. The introduction would have me believe that because Hard Times is so short, it's got a lot more of said pointful prose; unfortunately so far this means there are also no characters I particularly like. Maybe Louisa Bounderby, except she desperately needs to murder her husband (or run away with some factory worker) and I don't think Dickens will allow her a happy ending if she does.
Then again, book called Hard Times.
msbelle - May 28, 2004 4:35:29 am PDT #2950 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I read EF in highschool, I don't remember hating it , and now I don't remember anything about it, except there was a man, a woman and it was winter.
Frankenbuddha - May 28, 2004 4:45:17 am PDT #2951 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So the question is, why do all the schools make us read it??
Misery loves company?
Also, I want to have a talk with the first person who put Bartleby the Scrivener into the curriculum.
Hm, I rather like old Bartleby, but I always read and enjoyed that as a precursor to Camus and the like.
Steph L. - May 28, 2004 4:45:37 am PDT #2952 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Bartleby makes me laugh out of sheer frustration, in that What About Bob? kind of way.
I remember reading Hard Times in high school, and I might even still have it on my shelves, but Dickens is such hard slogging for me.
Is Hard Times the one where one of the character's father is The Aged P? And he (Aged P) is hard of hearing, so the son rigged up a system of little signs that would pop out of the stonework around the fireplace? Or is that another Dickens?
Angus G - May 28, 2004 4:48:37 am PDT #2953 of 10002
Roguish Laird
That's Great Expectations, Steph.
Steph L. - May 28, 2004 4:50:20 am PDT #2954 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I haven't read any Dickens in over 15 years, so I'm not surprised I've conflated them.