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Originally Posted by Sparrow
I tried to read it a couple of times.
In the end I just settled for listening to a few Rush albums instead.  |
Sounds like a plan. Do you mind if I listen to a couple of Falco singles on repeat instead though?
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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And the prose. Oh, dear goodness, the prose, with dialog that read like it was graven in stone tablets, brought down off a mountain by a prophet, and intended to be spoken IN ALL CAPS....
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"This is John Galt speaking"...or should that be
"THIS IS JOHN GALT SPEAKING"?
The thing is, I thought it was an okay book as a story, but it sometimes felt so crammed with philosophising shoved into any possible nook and cranny that it felt like sitting on an overstuffed chair (I should concede, though, that Pirsig's
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance might feel like this to some people too, though I loved it)
I hear that Rand's
The Fountainhead is better though.
On another tack, I know some people dislike
Moby Dick, and I've heard it expressed that this was possibly because they had to slog through it at school. Down this way, we didn't get a lot of Am.Lit. (mostly Eng.Lit., with increasing amounts of Aus.Lit. gradually being added), so the White Whale wasn't on the syllabus. I read it a couple of years ago, and quite enjoyed it - far more approachable than I expected. It was the kind of book that made me want to attend a study group on it, just for a couple of weeks to extract the a decent amount of filling from its rich, creamy centre.
On the other hand, my last attempt at
Crime & Punishment (admittedly over twenty years ago, while in my mid-to-late teens)...well, it wasn't a success. It's a "Worst" that deserves a review on my part though (since I didn't come close to completing it, or even starting it properly). I could say the same about ~gasp~
The Silmarillion.
Cheers,
Marc