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Mar. 20th, 2009 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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From March 19, 2009: What’s the worst 'best' book you’ve ever read — the one everyone says is so great, but you can’t figure out why?Easy: Moby Dick. I'd heard great quotes from it on X-Files and Star Trek and it sounded brilliant. So only a few years ago I sat down and read it cover to cover, and haven't been so bored (or frustrated) by a novel since Ivanhoe. But I understand why some people might like Ivanhoe, or, rather, might have done so in the 19th century. Moby Dick? I just didn't get it.
It quotes well, though. Ignorance is the parent of fear.
It was a sharp, cold Christmas.
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Date: 2009-03-20 07:00 pm (UTC)LOL. I don't think I've ever tried to read Conrad. Don't feel in a hurry to do so, either.
Wuthering Heights
It's so turgid.
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews. It got all these awards and wonderful reviews, but it gave me the creeps.
I quite enjoyed it, but I'll agree that it was creepy.