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Originally Posted by Kralik
If you want digressions, try Don Quixote!  |
I haven't read
Don Quixote (actually I may have tried to read it when I was younger), but if you want disgressions, try
Mémoires d'outre-tombe, by Chateaubriand. The author can't tell a simple anecdote without raving on and on about the family of the persons involved, and their nobility titles, and how this man was the second cousin of the daughter of the uncle of the third cousin of a man he met last night. Dreadful and also very high on my boring list.
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Originally Posted by nomesque
For me, 'digression' equals Les Miserables - one whole flippin' chapter of digression that I painstakingly read, thinking it might be important. Nup. Nothing to do with the story at all, except the fact that it described a battle fought in the same war. Or part of a battle.
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I haven't read
Les misérables, but I tried to read
L'homme qui rit by Hugo. I also found it very boring (stopped reading after 40 pages or something), but not because of disgressions. It was just that nothing was happening. The beginning was about a man walking in the snow, and how difficult it was to walk in the snow, and how cold he was, and how the snow fell on him, and how he was tired... I'm not sure he completed a single step before I stopped reading.
A third author which I find also boring is Balzac. Can't stand the lengthy description.
Hmmm, if it weren't for Zola, Flaubert and Maupassant, I might think I find all classical French authors boring...