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Heh, this is the sound of the Universe telling me to stop being a snooty cow.
So, I registered for the review a Penguin Classic thing that's floating around. Mostly because I was horrified by the amount of complaining I have seen about people afraid to step out of their genre, and afraid to attempt some classics. After all, I am literate scientist girl. I love the Romantic Poets, I have been know to read literary criticism, even when I didn't have to. I read the Norton Anthology for fun. The Wasteland is comfort reading for me. How bad can it be?
I was faintly disgusted that people were so keen to not stretch their boundaries. After all, every person on the internet seems to think that they are big readers, so why aren't they keen to discover new worlds?
Yeah.
So.
Tess of the D'Urbevilles. Well, I read half of it while I was at school, as my brother had been assigned it, and hated it, and I wanted to see what there was to hate. It wasn't for me either, have to say. I have read other Hardy. I loved the Woodlanders, which I read when I was 15. Tess though, Tess?
Well, it will be pushing my boundaries too, and it's probably worth re-assessing while not a stroppy teen. Hardy is massively loved in some places, there's got to be a REASON. Hmph. I would have loved Pushkin, or Poems, or Turgenev, Trollope would have made me ecstatic.
This is me doing some sort of penance. Flist? I apologise for thinking you were wimps for being a little dismayed. I too am a bit hesitant. I'm going to give it a good try though. They're just WORDS, after all.
snapesbabe? Will you post some of those poems for us?
You can get your own slightly intimidating works of classic writing here. The results can be seen here.
So, I registered for the review a Penguin Classic thing that's floating around. Mostly because I was horrified by the amount of complaining I have seen about people afraid to step out of their genre, and afraid to attempt some classics. After all, I am literate scientist girl. I love the Romantic Poets, I have been know to read literary criticism, even when I didn't have to. I read the Norton Anthology for fun. The Wasteland is comfort reading for me. How bad can it be?
I was faintly disgusted that people were so keen to not stretch their boundaries. After all, every person on the internet seems to think that they are big readers, so why aren't they keen to discover new worlds?
Yeah.
So.
Tess of the D'Urbevilles. Well, I read half of it while I was at school, as my brother had been assigned it, and hated it, and I wanted to see what there was to hate. It wasn't for me either, have to say. I have read other Hardy. I loved the Woodlanders, which I read when I was 15. Tess though, Tess?
Well, it will be pushing my boundaries too, and it's probably worth re-assessing while not a stroppy teen. Hardy is massively loved in some places, there's got to be a REASON. Hmph. I would have loved Pushkin, or Poems, or Turgenev, Trollope would have made me ecstatic.
This is me doing some sort of penance. Flist? I apologise for thinking you were wimps for being a little dismayed. I too am a bit hesitant. I'm going to give it a good try though. They're just WORDS, after all.
snapesbabe? Will you post some of those poems for us?
You can get your own slightly intimidating works of classic writing here. The results can be seen here.