"Anon" (tjsielsistneb)
09/12/2013 at 18:25 • Filed to: None
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"Anon" (tjsielsistneb)
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I do not enjoy Jane Austen's writing style at all. It's a wonderful story! I like Jane Austen's story! But it's so boring to read. Her writing style just seems to lack...I don't know how to put my finger on it, pizzaz? I don't know what it is, but I don't like it. It doesn't help that I'm reading Murakami's "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" at the same time which is a much better written book.
Tom McParland
> Anon
09/12/2013 at 18:28 |
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That book was terrible. I hated all that Victorian shit, goddamn serial publication made those things waaaay too long. I do like the essays from the time though. Oscar Wilde is hilarious!
offroadkarter
> Anon
09/12/2013 at 18:28 |
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is this a summer reading book?
are you in like the 11th grade?
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Anon
> Tom McParland
09/12/2013 at 18:31 |
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Oscar Wilde and Alexandre Dumas were the best writers around that time! (in my opinion)
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Anon
> offroadkarter
09/12/2013 at 18:32 |
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Nope, English 1002. I actually read well written stuff in high school.
Leadbull
> Anon
09/12/2013 at 18:32 |
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It's better than The Scarlet Letter.
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Anon
> Leadbull
09/12/2013 at 18:35 |
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We do not TALK of The Scarlet Letter! We do not WRITE of The Scarlet Letter! And above all we do not THINK of the scarlet letter!
HammerheadFistpunch
> Anon
09/12/2013 at 18:35 |
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is it the way she spends 2 pages describing the drapes and how they make her feel?
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offroadkarter
> Anon
09/12/2013 at 18:38 |
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I think this was a book I was supposed to read and high school. If I remember right, this was THE book where I read one page, and put it down, and never touched it again...
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Anon
> HammerheadFistpunch
09/12/2013 at 18:40 |
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It might be part of the problem...You know now that I think of it, classical literature reminds me of the big shonen anime (Bleach, Dragon Ball,.....Naruto...I feel like I need to brush my teeth now) They will spend an entire episode yelling at each other and maybe attack once or twice. Classical literature is like that except for they talk about shit that has next to no relevance to the story for 2 or 3 pages.
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Anon
> offroadkarter
09/12/2013 at 18:41 |
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And as a future english professor, I don't blame you.
Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
> Anon
09/12/2013 at 18:43 |
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Mark Twain said this of her writing "Whenever I take up "Pride and Prejudice" or "Sense and Sensibility," I feel like a barkeeper entering the Kingdom of Heaven. I mean, I feel as he would probably feel, would almost certainly feel. I am quite sure I know what his sensations would be — and his private comments. He would be certain to curl his lip, as those ultra-good Presbyterians went filing self-complacently along. ...
She makes me detest all her people, without reserve. Is that her intention?"
So you are in good company, opinionwise.
For Sweden
> Anon
09/12/2013 at 18:43 |
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"Mr. Darcy treats me like a dick, but he's nice to others, so I should sleep with him."
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Anon
> Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
09/12/2013 at 18:47 |
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God I love Mark Twain! Seriously, his life was one whacky misadventure after the other.
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Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
> Anon
09/12/2013 at 18:59 |
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And here's another opinion in a letter to a friend that Twain wrote regarding Austin's work:."I haven't any right to criticise books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
- Letter to Joseph Twichell, 13 September 1898
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Anon
> Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
09/12/2013 at 19:05 |
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I think him and Alexandre Dumas (Pretty much the french mark twain) would have gotten along amazingly well.
Bakkster, touring car driver
> Anon
09/12/2013 at 22:28 |
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Solved.
