Benny_
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I disagree, Heaney is good. Whoever it was that wrote The Bone People though.. ye god that was a terrible book.
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Anti-Austen, or the author you like least (1 Viewer)
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i agree about shakespeare and seamus heaney
but no1 even mentioned william golding who brought us that trash, lord of the flies
but no1 even mentioned william golding who brought us that trash, lord of the flies
rific
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I haven't read Maestro yet, but I have read some of Goldworthy's essays and I thought he was reasonably talented.
Shakespeare can be a good read, not always, but some/most of his stuff is pretty good.
Back to my personal 'favourite' - Austen does make you think about social pressures and the nature of the human mind, and for that reason she could be seen as a good philosopher or teacher or something like that, I'm just not a fan of her voice (I think that's the best way to explain it), normally I can get over problems like that, but just not with Austen.
Shakespeare can be a good read, not always, but some/most of his stuff is pretty good.
Back to my personal 'favourite' - Austen does make you think about social pressures and the nature of the human mind, and for that reason she could be seen as a good philosopher or teacher or something like that, I'm just not a fan of her voice (I think that's the best way to explain it), normally I can get over problems like that, but just not with Austen.
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Well, I'm not sure which of the two I disliked more.jim_green said:
Heaney's poetry just seemed so insignificant and badly-written -- maybe this is because I was studying Donne for 2U at the time, and I liked that a lot better.TBP was a decent book in terms of plot and ideas. I liked many of the issues she tried to bring up, and I thought Kerewin was a great character. The style of writing, though, left much to be desired...
Pride and Prejudice was quite possibly the only assigned English book I've ever enjoyed. I love Jane Austen. But I can understand why I was the only person in the class who liked the book.
My personal least favourite author at the moment is David Malouf. I'm not a big fan of postmodernism. At least, I assume it's a postmodern text, since it's structured oddly, is full of pretentious metaphors and doesn't go anywhere. It seems unfair that there's so many people out there who don't want to do Emma, while there's a heap of girls in my class (stuck doing 'In the Wild') who desperately wanted to do 'Transformations' instead.
My personal least favourite author at the moment is David Malouf. I'm not a big fan of postmodernism. At least, I assume it's a postmodern text, since it's structured oddly, is full of pretentious metaphors and doesn't go anywhere. It seems unfair that there's so many people out there who don't want to do Emma, while there's a heap of girls in my class (stuck doing 'In the Wild') who desperately wanted to do 'Transformations' instead.
Austen never shows a happy marriage, but we are left to assume that all her heroines' marriages are blissful.. Sucky. I once thought I read a sequel to P&P where Darcy became an abusive SOB. I can't remember what it was called or who it was by.. I think I was 11.
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I also quite like the Classics and i enjoy Austens works but as for the worst book ever - im not sure. I do however believe that Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" was the most overrated book ever.
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rific said:"Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it."
Mark Twain
Some friends of mine are going to study a unit on Jane Austen, I'm sure some would find that really interesting. Just not me.
Are there any famous author's out there people don't like - really don't like - or do people like the better known authors best? In other words, as a general rule, who writes the best/worst, the famous or the silent majority?
DIE AUSTEN DIE!!!! *dude she's dead* BURN EMMA BURN!!!!! AHHHHHHHH PATHETIC LITERATURE!!! OMG CAN IT GET ANY WORSE!?!
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nicholas sparks.
rific
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Wow, now that's what I like to see, people being passionate about literature.nick1048 said:
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definitely nicholas sparks and dan brown
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Bryce Courtenay should never have been born thus leaving us without his "classically written stories" THEY ARE CLASSIC OR GOOD OR IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM READABLE!
end rant.
end rant.
Atticus.
how do i get out of this
what was the name of the guy who wrote catch 22? him
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Oh and Austen is soap operatic to the ninth degree, with many of her stories similar to that of say Nicholas Sarks. Serving the society's ideals of the time while at the same time spicing them up with an "edge". Goddamnit Elizabeth Bennet is not a rebel, she gets married like everyone else does and who knows is she is happy after her marriage?? Austen did the "happily ever after" stupidity too many times (that is that life in those times ended with marriage and that marriage was the pinnacle of life, thus not writing after her heroine/hero's post-marriage life).
grrr austen
grrr austen