An overhyped classic you really didn't like
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Re: An overhyped classic you really didn't like
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I have so many mixed feelings about 'Lord Of The Rings'. I know people or love them or hate them, no middle way! Personally I've read first two books and gave up in the middle of the third one, as I felt exhausted and I had the persistent feeling that this story should have ended many pages before already. It was a tiresome and demanding reading. Too many and too long descriptions of landscapes and elements which I assume were meant to be a sort of literal artistry but after all were just ditraction from actual happenings. The story was too long with no reason. It could have been closed within 2 books max. Also there was but a few female characters.
On the other hand it's hard to deny the high class of the books and their worth in a literature world. It is a very detailed story and it's hard to not appreciate how much work it must have cost to write it. I know plenty of people absolutely loving this title. So there must be something in it.
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I agree! I just wrote similar opinion on the other forum. I find 'The Great Gatsby' very overrated and characters simply unrealistic and annoying. I could hardly get through all the 'old sport's' which I found terribly irritating. Taking that book was no more than one hour reading, I'm asking myself if it was not written in a one evning or so. It doesn't seem thought through. And as you said, all the characters were unlikable. The story itself brought completely nothing in my life.
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I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I've never read it, but seeing your opinion I loose my regrets! Thank you for sharing, it seems a valuable point to me.mialanca17 wrote: ↑07 May 2020, 11:32 I have a profound aversion to The Catcher in The Rye - I understand its significance *but* I cannot stand it. Holden is a pretentious, angsty, edgy teenager that's unlikeable and annoying which would be fine if it had a point, but there is nothing of substance there. There is no point, no message, nothing I could take away from the book. Sure it talks about the trouble of adolescence and growing up but it *just* talks, without saying anything.
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Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne rambles and gets off topic WAYYYY too much for me. I was nearly finished with the dang thing before I realized that the Preacher was the father of the child.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Once again, another author that just rambles and gets off topic way too much. I got lost so many times while reading and forgot where we were in the story.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. This was written well and the story is very interesting but I just can't fathom people burning books. There's just something so incredibly off-putting by this action. It's not terrifying like horror, it makes me feel unsettled. I couldn't even watch the movie adaptation with Michael B. Jordan.
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier. I hated Mary Yellan and Jem's relationship. It just didn't seem like Jem really liked Mary all that much. Even at the end when he was leaving town, he was like "you can come if you want, doesn't matter much to me." WTF DUDE
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I love dystopian novels, but the writing style of these authors is very difficult for me to follow through. There's also a non-classic Young Adult book entitle FEED that sounds like 1984. I won't read a similar book again.
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Same! I tried to have a marathon and watch all the movies but it wasn't interesting enough for me. And boy was it hard to stay focused while reading the books Too much overlapping, not enough character development at least for me...
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