[bookshare-discuss] Re: the worst book ever
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:07:59 -0500
Moby Dick was required reading in my college lit class, and none of the
students liked it!!
Sue S.
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From: Dan Hicks
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Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:20 PM
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I am going to commit what some would call utter blasphemy, but my nomination
for worst book ever is Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I don't think a
publisher would give it a second glance today. It has been called the
greatest novel of all time, but I don't see it. And, don't think I hate it
just because it was required reading. Catcher in the Rye and Grapes of Wrath
were required reading and I like both of those books a lot -- in spite of
what have said about Catcher.
Let the Moby Dick lovers flame away!
Dan Hicks
"If you are going to walk on thin ice,
you might as well dance."
- Inuit Proverb
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From: "robert tweedy" <roberttweedy@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 10:06 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: the worst book ever
>I don't like what people are calling the classics. I didn't like the way
>they where written.
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> From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:18 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: the worst book ever
>
>
>> Wow, Bob, I can't limit myself to just one! grin
>>
>> Off of the top of my head:
>>
>> I hated hated hated "The Red Pony." What caring person would recommend
>> that book to a child who loves horses? YUCK.
>>
>> Also, I hated "As I Lay Dying." Every time my literature professor raved
>> about the wonderfully layered inner themes, I gagged. Please. What's so
>> thematically critical about a family that cements their son's broken leg
>> to the coffin that contains the decomposing body of the mother. Instead
>> of idolizing this, shouldn't we be pointing out to students, as a
>> learning moment, that this is way past the time when you call the
>> authorities? YUCK.
>>
>> And less I ever forget, I couldn't stand James Jones "From Here to
>> Eternity." Read the first fifty pages, and wanted someone to give me
>> back the time I'd wasted on it.
>>
>> And to finish up on the books I hated, I couldn't stand any of Sondra
>> Marshak's Star Trek books.
>>
>> Judy s.
>>
>> Bob wrote:
>>> Let's not just pick on sci-fi, sf, science fiction (whatever you want to
>>> call it).
>>> What's the worst book you've ever read?
>>> I don't know the title of mine, but it was by Donald Westlake (I'm
>>> pretty sure) and I usually like his mysteries. The heroin was so yuck!
>>> Never mind, I don't even want to think about it.
>>> I read about two-thirds of it, then skipped to the last track and all
>>> the good people were bad and all the bad were good.
>>> Bob
>>>
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