Classic Literature

[CandiCame]

I'm going to read an assload of it. I'm far too stupid and I want to try and correct that. Right now I'm reading Emma by Jane Austen. I'm more than half-way through it and literally nothing has happened. It's really super boring. Which, I thought was just because it was old and the characters were all rich so I was having trouble connecting with them, but then this dude named John Knightly comes in and is like, "You're all fucking boring. Your dad is a hypochondriac. This town is fucked up I want to go to the beach. Fuck all of you."

So now I've got somebody I kinda identify with. Emma's just kind of a bitch. I don't know why nobody calls her on it. At the beginning this chick Harriet that she hangs out with wants to marry this dude she stayed with all summer and Emma talks her out of it for no good reason. So now chick's got no man. In the 1800s when having a man was like a huge thing. Also Emma thinks she's better than everybody. In short, I hope to god the reader's not supposed to identify with her because she's a bad person.

But yeah, this is a literature site, let's discuss some fucking literature until my woman gets home from class and I can bitch to her about it.

 

[yossi]

Are you sticking with English* lit or are you mixing it up?

*British

 

[islandman]

Are you sticking with English lit or are mixing it up?

Were you thinking Swahili lit as well?

 

[yossi]

Were you thinking Swahili lit as well?

Oops, British lit. Snarky. Pfffft.

 

[CandiCame]

Are you sticking with English lit or are mixing it up?

It'd have to be in English because that's the only language I speak- but anything that is considered a "classic". Like I just finished Pliny the Elder's letters, but they had been translated.

 

[Noor]

Russian Lit from the late 1800's can be interesting.

Gogol- Dead Souls, The Government Inspector, and The Overcoat
Lermontov-A hero in our times (which strangely paralled what happened later in his life.)
Turgenev-Fathers and Sons
Dostoyevsky-Crime and Punishment
I kind of find Tolstoy excessively long winded and depressing, not that all Russian Lit isn't a bit depressing
Andreyev-He who gets slapped.

non russian-
Henry James- Turn of the screw
Plato's Republic
Collins The Moonstone
Conan Doyle_The complete Sherlock Holmes
Verne -Around the World in 80 days
Hawthorne- The Scarlett Letter
Hope-The Prisoner of Zenda

 

[Noor]

I'm going to read an assload of it. I'm far too stupid and I want to try and correct that. Right now I'm reading Emma by Jane Austen. I'm more than half-way through it and literally nothing has happened. It's really super boring. Which, I thought was just because it was old and the characters were all rich so I was having trouble connecting with them, but then this dude named John Knightly comes in and is like, "You're all fucking boring. Your dad is a hypochondriac. This town is fucked up I want to go to the beach. Fuck all of you."

So now I've got somebody I kinda identify with. Emma's just kind of a bitch. I don't know why nobody calls her on it. At the beginning this chick Harriet that she hangs out with wants to marry this dude she stayed with all summer and Emma talks her out of it for no good reason. So now chick's got no man. In the 1800s when having a man was like a huge thing. Also Emma thinks she's better than everybody. In short, I hope to god the reader's not supposed to identify with her because she's a bad person.

But yeah, this is a literature site, let's discuss some fucking literature until my woman gets home from class and I can bitch to her about it.

Austin, Brontes-except maybe Jane Eyre, du Maurier are all kind of dull in my eyes, much has to do with social station, manipulations and manners. I like the gritty stuff like Dickens for that or the fun stuff like Wodehouse.

 

[CandiCame]

Russian Lit from the late 1800's can be interesting.

Gogol- Dead Souls, The Government Inspector, and The Overcoat
Lermontov-A hero in our times (which strangely paralled what happened later in his life.)
Turgenev-Fathers and Sons
Dostoyevsky-Crime and Punishment
I kind of find Tolstoy excessively long winded and depressing, not that all Russian Lit isn't a bit depressing
Andreyev-He who gets slapped.

non russian-
Henry James- Turn of the screw
Plato's Republic
Collins The Moonstone
Conan Doyle_The complete Sherlock Holmes
Verne -Around the World in 80 days
Hawthorne- The Scarlett Letter
Hope-The Prisoner of Zenda

Thanks! I've already knocked off the Moonstone, which I loved, The Scarlett Letter, which was weird and kinda sad, and Around the World in 80 Days wherein I loved Pasporto (or however you spell his name) so your taste is similar enough to mine to make me think that the rest'll be great!!

 

[jmace1000]

I quite enjoy literature. I found "The Moonstone" very slow though, so if you liked that you might absolutely love "The Woman in White", also by Collins. I did!

 

[Deafening]

You are required to read those novels in High School.

Why are you doing it now?

Probably you dropped out.

 

[CandiCame]

I quite enjoy literature. I found "The Moonstone" very slow though, so if you liked that you might absolutely love "The Woman in White", also by Collins. I did!

I've already read that one too- I really liked it! The whole insane asylum thing was pretty fucked up.

 

[Sean Renaud]

You could always read modern stuff.

 

[CandiCame]

You are required to read those novels in High School.

Why are you doing it now?

Probably you dropped out.

I went to high school in Kentucky. I read many of them in grade school under that accelerated reading bullshit, but as I was a small child I'm 99% sure that I didn't get everything out of them that I should have, so it's not a bad idea to reread them.

 

[CandiCame]

You could always read modern stuff.

Yeah, but I wanna be all learned and shit.

 

[planetqueen]

Dostoevsky - crime and punishment. One of the most life changing, wonderful books I have ever read.

Really - read it!

 

[NatashaluvBoris]

I'm going to read an assload of it. I'm far too stupid and I want to try and correct that. Right now I'm reading Emma by Jane Austen. I'm more than half-way through it and literally nothing has happened. It's really super boring. Which, I thought was just because it was old and the characters were all rich so I was having trouble connecting with them, but then this dude named John Knightly comes in and is like, "You're all fucking boring. Your dad is a hypochondriac. This town is fucked up I want to go to the beach. Fuck all of you."

So now I've got somebody I kinda identify with. Emma's just kind of a bitch. I don't know why nobody calls her on it. At the beginning this chick Harriet that she hangs out with wants to marry this dude she stayed with all summer and Emma talks her out of it for no good reason. So now chick's got no man. In the 1800s when having a man was like a huge thing. Also Emma thinks she's better than everybody. In short, I hope to god the reader's not supposed to identify with her because she's a bad person.

But yeah, this is a literature site, let's discuss some fucking literature until my woman gets home from class and I can bitch to her about it.

A lot of classic literature is like that, especially romance novels. All the action happens in the very end of the story. All of the beginning is so boring however necessary to the story as a whole. You will find that with the Bronte sisters, Edith Wharton, and others. But keep reading because I have found that there are so many illiterations in current movies and literature that you miss if you haven't read the classics.

I found that I had to read some biblical stuff and mythogies in order to understand art and many things mentioned in classic literature. The more you read the better understanding you will have of everything in the world around you. There's no negatives there!

 

[CandiCame]

A lot of classic literature is like that, especially romance novels. All the action happens in the very end of the story. All of the beginning is so boring however necessary to the story as a whole. You will find that with the Bronte sisters, Edith Wharton, and others. But keep reading because I have found that there are so many illiterations in current movies and literature that you miss if you haven't read the classics.

I found that I had to read some biblical stuff and mythogies in or to understand art and many things mentioned in classic literature. The more you read the better understanding you will have of everything in the world around you. There's no negatives there!

The Bible is way more metal than Christians make it out to be. I was genuinely shocked at how good it was.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Yeah, but I wanna be all learned and shit.

Yeah, then skip to the modern stuff. It's better if you want to be all learned and shit.

 

[CandiCame]

Yeah, then skip to the modern stuff. It's better if you want to be all learned and shit.

That's what I thought, but I also didn't know how to do the Shakespearian thingy for learn-ed. So obviously I have a long way to go.

 

[jmace1000]

Talking of Shakespeare, Hamlet is terrific!

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

english lit >

 

[Sean Renaud]

That's what I thought, but I also didn't know how to do the Shakespearian thingy for learn-ed. So obviously I have a long way to go.

Just watch the version with DMX.

 

[CandiCame]

Just watch the version with DMX.

omfg what are you talking about!? I need this knowledge that sounds awesome.

 

[Sean Renaud]

You've seriously never seen Romeo must Die?

 

[CandiCame]

You've seriously never seen Romeo must Die?

I have not. Now I feel like I need to. I'm not a huge Shakespear fan.