Ok, now I gotta ask it....
Who else thinks "Madame Bovary" was a giant piece of crap and wanted to slap whatsherface around by page 4?
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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."
Ok, now I gotta ask it....
Who else thinks "Madame Bovary" was a giant piece of crap and wanted to slap whatsherface around by page 4?
Heh. I had to drag DH kicking and screaming to Master & Commander, because to him if it has pretty men in pretty clothes doing adventurous things, it's a chick flick. Though he didn't make the same argument about PotC or LotR, so he's not entirely consistent. And I may be able to get him to see King Arthur with me, because Keira Knightley cancels out the chick flick factor.
I adore the more bizarre Tenessee Williams like Camino Real,
Heh. Suddenly, Last Summer. Homosexuality and cannbalism, baby. And a nun!
In most cases, I'm completely un-pinged by gender issues when I read. It's just a big old blind spot.
The one exception is that I do tend to subconsciously judge female POVs as "accurate" or not, which I don't do if the narrator is male. But I can't ever think of a time when I've given up on a book or movie because there were no women in it.
Who else thinks "Madame Bovary" was a giant piece of crap and wanted to slap whatsherface around by page 4?
Yo! Represent!
I can't appreciate the prose style on account of not reading French, and I wanted to slap (A) Mme. B and (B) her entire milieu and social restrants silly.
CR has a gypsy's virginity being restored by the moon, IIRC- Plus Byron, and Gutman- cripes I forget who else. 'Tis one of my favorites.
The thing that fascinates me about Conrad? That he'd take up writing stories as an adult, in a language he learned as an adult. Unfortunately, I found that the only interesting thing about the six weeks of "Heart of Darkness". (The horror! The horror!)
Madame Bovary had no effect on me at all. I read it, was entertained while I read it, and then forgot it.
Yo! Represent!
t high fives Betsy