S/O Classics

GilliC · September 2013

@booknerd226 said:

GilliC said:

@booknerd226 said:
I can't remember if I ever read Catcher in the Rye in high school or not but I want to read it and see if I like it. You guys are bumming me out with that one lol.

I read it recently. I didn't hate it, but I didn't really enjoy it. I'm glad I finally read it just to know what everyone was talking about, but it's not something I would recommend, and I think I would have liked it more as an angsty teenagers.

@GilliC - I'm definitely going to read it one day with an open mind. But just from reading the comments it sounds like a whiny teenage boy. Not my cup of tea.

Just be sure to have something fun and enjoyable queued up after it!

Luckily it's not too long, so it's not a huge investment. (I'm looking at you, War & Peace!)

kaylynne · September 2013

Catcher in the Rye - I was annoyed at 16. So much whining, so much posturing and unnecessary cursing.

Catch 22 - it's all happening again, life is a trap, you're stuck in a cycle, it's all happening again... I tried to read this 3 years ago after being pressured by my colleagues in the English dept. I made it about 2/3 of the way before I decided I had gotten everything I was going to get out of it. This book was like a test within the dept - half of us hated it and half loved it, there was no in-between. I should have known better than to try Perdido Street Station on the recommendation of the Catch 22 lovers.

Heart of Darkness - just, yuck. I read this in hs too.

Anything by Faulkner - in college I had to take a class that was all one author. The choices were Faulkner (which I hadn't read), Chaucer (which I had read enough to know I didn't want to do it for a full semester), Shakespeare (which I had already studied in three other classes) or ummm I think Jane Austen maybe? (and I had already read her entire cannon).
One of the biggest regrets of my college career was choosing the Faulkner class.

sassypants527 · September 2013

Jane Austen in general. Her characters annoy me. And I think I was too old when I finally read Catcher in the Rye to appreciate the angsty behavior anymore.

84Lauren · September 2013

OH AND -

A Farewell to Arms.

This may be one of my all time favorite movie scenes EVAR.

dmlk413 · September 2013

Atlas Shrugged, Heart of Darkness, Catcher in the Rye

Oh and The Great Gatsby.

LuluMurph · September 2013

P&P and Wuthering Heights, it was like fingers on a chalk board of my mind.

ChristyDM82 · September 2013

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (I hated this book)

Through the Looking Glass

Phantom of the Opera

LaBellaBarv66 · September 2013

Oh my god FAULKNER is AWFUL! I painfully got through The Sound and the Fury but NEVER AGAIN!

Passanie · September 2013

mrsvedo said:

Heart of Darkness.

I'm actually friends with my HS English teacher on FB and some of us were talking with her one day and she outright apologized for making us read this. :P

That's so funny. I read it in high school and loved it. My teacher was a former military guy and we watched Apocalypse Now after. I remember being just an ideal book to read in that setting. Sometimes I think context makes all the difference.

oliversbear · September 2013

Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

I'm beginning to think I have a problem with the Bronte sisters in general.

And Dickens. I CANNOT STAND DICKENS!

fabk · September 2013

I strongly disliked The Great Gatsby. However i loved the catcher in the rye. I re-read both as an adult and my feelings didn't change.

ceresas · September 2013

I hate any and all Charles Dickens.
#Gavel

I also couldn't make it through Pride & Prejudice until I listened to it on audio. Still can't get through Tess of the D'urbevilles

nocturnalintimacy · September 2013

kaylynne said:

Catch 22 - it's all happening again, life is a trap, you're stuck in a cycle, it's all happening again... I tried to read this 3 years ago after being pressured by my colleagues in the English dept. I made it about 2/3 of the way before I decided I had gotten everything I was going to get out of it. This book was like a test within the dept - half of us hated it and half loved it, there was no in-between. I should have known better than to try Perdido Street Station on the recommendation of the Catch 22 lovers.

Catch 22 is one of my favorites.

RiverPlate · September 2013

I haven't liked anything by Jane Austen, Toni Morrison, or James Joyce that I've read, and I won't give them another try. I couldn't finish Moby Dick or The Once and Future King. Dr. Zhivago wasn't completely awful, but it was a trek to muddle through, and took much longer to read than it should have.

Adjudi-Kate · September 2013

Ethan Frome. Hate, hate, hate.

denmanam · September 2013

I've tried a few times to read Catcher in the Rye, but I just can't do it.

sagoon · September 2013

Adjudi-Kate said:

Ethan Frome. Hate, hate, hate.

Agreed.

kaylynne · September 2013

nocturnalintimacy said:

kaylynne said:

Catch 22 - it's all happening again, life is a trap, you're stuck in a cycle, it's all happening again... I tried to read this 3 years ago after being pressured by my colleagues in the English dept. I made it about 2/3 of the way before I decided I had gotten everything I was going to get out of it. This book was like a test within the dept - half of us hated it and half loved it, there was no in-between. I should have known better than to try Perdido Street Station on the recommendation of the Catch 22 lovers.

Catch 22 is one of my favorites.

Please don't hate me
:-S

sweetrhythms · September 2013

The Grapes of Wrath and The Scarlet Letter

jason&robin · September 2013

I don't know if this is considered a classic or not, but I didn't really care for Slaughterhouse Five

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