A Book considered great that you did not like
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A Book considered great that you did not like
For me Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra i just found this book to be extremely boring it took me almost 3 years to finish it. Its one of the worst books i have read. Which i guess is weird in away because i remember reading that it was considered the greatest book ever written.
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It is amazing how two people can read the same book and have such diametrically different opinions of it. I respect your opinion but contrary to yours I consider Don Quixote by Cervantes to be one of the finest books I have ever read. I found it to be an enormously entertaining comedy. I read the Putnam translation (1949).Jolyon Trevelyan wrote:Name a book that is considered among the greatest ever written that you did not like.
For me Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra i just found this book to be extremely boring it took me almost 3 years to finish it. Its one of the worst books i have read. Which i guess is weird in away because i remember reading that it was considered the greatest book ever written.
After 600 years it still ranks very high on the lists of the finest novels ever written and many book organizations of note consider it the finest literary work ever written. It is the second-most translated book in history.
― Steven Wright
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Yes it is funny how people can have completle different view on something they read or watch for that matter. I mean i see a user over don`t like War and Pace which is a book i really enjoyed.DATo wrote:It is amazing how two people can read the same book and have such diametrically different opinions of it. I respect your opinion but contrary to yours I consider Don Quixote by Cervantes to be one of the finest books I have ever read. I found it to be an enormously entertaining comedy. I read the Putnam translation (1949).Jolyon Trevelyan wrote:Name a book that is considered among the greatest ever written that you did not like.
For me Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra i just found this book to be extremely boring it took me almost 3 years to finish it. Its one of the worst books i have read. Which i guess is weird in away because i remember reading that it was considered the greatest book ever written.
After 600 years it still ranks very high on the lists of the finest novels ever written and many book organizations of note consider it the finest literary work ever written. It is the second-most translated book in history.
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I found it so bleak, depressing. I realize that is what Golding was going for as he worked with topics like civilization vs. savagery, individuality vs. group-think, etc... but for me, the book was a bleak, hope-destroying, depression-inducing horror. I will never read it again, and I have never wanted to read any of his other books.
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On the other hand, we both like Dostoyevsky, and, may I say, you look so much like him judging from your picture that the two of you could be twins!Jolyon Trevelyan wrote:Yes it is funny how people can have completle different view on something they read or watch for that matter. I mean i see a user over don`t like War and Pace which is a book i really enjoyed.DATo wrote:It is amazing how two people can read the same book and have such diametrically different opinions of it. I respect your opinion but contrary to yours I consider Don Quixote by Cervantes to be one of the finest books I have ever read. I found it to be an enormously entertaining comedy. I read the Putnam translation (1949).Jolyon Trevelyan wrote:Name a book that is considered among the greatest ever written that you did not like.
For me Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra i just found this book to be extremely boring it took me almost 3 years to finish it. Its one of the worst books i have read. Which i guess is weird in away because i remember reading that it was considered the greatest book ever written.
After 600 years it still ranks very high on the lists of the finest novels ever written and many book organizations of note consider it the finest literary work ever written. It is the second-most translated book in history.

― Steven Wright
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I had some work done......................DATo wrote:On the other hand, we both like Dostoyevsky, and, may I say, you look so much like him judging from your picture that the two of you could be twins!Jolyon Trevelyan wrote:Yes it is funny how people can have completle different view on something they read or watch for that matter. I mean i see a user over don`t like War and Pace which is a book i really enjoyed.DATo wrote:
It is amazing how two people can read the same book and have such diametrically different opinions of it. I respect your opinion but contrary to yours I consider Don Quixote by Cervantes to be one of the finest books I have ever read. I found it to be an enormously entertaining comedy. I read the Putnam translation (1949).
After 600 years it still ranks very high on the lists of the finest novels ever written and many book organizations of note consider it the finest literary work ever written. It is the second-most translated book in history.
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