Comments | make_meabird: Banned Books Meme

make_meabird

Banned Books Meme

Oct 01, 2009 18:48

Bold the books you've read & liked or loved
Strike the books you've read but didn't enjoy
Italicize the books you want to read

( onto the books.... )

books, banned books

Comments 14

elandae October 2 2009, 01:06:45 UTC

Personally, I was really unimpressed with The Bell Jar. Maybe it's just because I can't bear any more of those emotionally deadened characters, but it just didn't hold my attention at all, so I didn't get very far with it. I also was a bit letdown by Bastard Out of Carolina but that wasn't really so much to do the writing itself )which was just fine) but the way the author chose to deal with one part of the end of the book. I don't want to be spoiler-y I'll just say I didn't care for it at all.

The Color Purple is an amazing read, though. I think you'd really enjoy it. Same with One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Might just have to steal this one!

elandae October 2 2009, 01:07:17 UTC

Oh, and I forgot to add...you don't like Roald Dahl's stories at all?

make_meabird October 2 2009, 02:10:13 UTC

I liked Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ok but not his other works. I had to read them for school though.

elandae October 2 2009, 16:57:58 UTC

Man, I so seriously wish my school had had assigned reading like that. lol I think I read a total of two good books for my English classes in all my time in school.

But to the point, I love Roald Dahl... I can appreciate that you don't, but I grew up with his books so I've always loved them. They're a bit quirky though, I think it's one of those love/hate things, really.

eveofrevolution October 2 2009, 01:56:10 UTC

make_meabird October 2 2009, 02:07:20 UTC

Because I honesly cannot stand most of his works.

eveofrevolution October 2 2009, 02:09:25 UTC

make_meabird October 2 2009, 02:11:40 UTC

I don't like the dysfunctional themes and his writing tends to bore me.

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jjoongie October 2 2009, 05:56:14 UTC

Catch 22 and Gone with the Wind are absolutely brilliant; I was floored by the former and did nothing but read the latter until I was done -- literally, two straight days of nothing but reading. The Giver is one of my favourite books from childhood, and I think I'm the only person who loved The Scarlet Letter. :| And Plath! Although I think everything Plath wrote pales in comparison to her journals ... I liked The Bell Jar and found it a good read, but I can't say I loved it.

Grapes of Wrath, personally, is the only Steinbeck I couldn't get through. I love love love his other books, but Grapes of Wrath ... I do want to reread it, though, because I adore his work. Ayn Rand I admit I have a personal vendetta against because The Fountainhead was freaking torture, and I hear Atlas Shrugged is even worse ... :|

lol you're not alone on not liking Dahl. I enjoyed Matilda, but I could never really get into him. I don't know why; I kind of like his ideas and what he tried to do; but that's ... all, if that ( ... )

aurillia October 2 2009, 14:30:51 UTC

I'm a bit distracted by some of these titles. Why the hell was Charlotte's Web banned? Or The Minpins? This must be a list of books that used to be banned, because most of these are fully accepted now, and it's missing the more recent books. But then, I've had my rant...

I don't even recognise most of these books!