Meme of unread books

[vaznetti]

As seen everywhere, the list of books other people say they haven't read. The best part about this is learning that many, many people share my loathing of Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

Comments

[cassandre]

I am with you on David Copperfield. That and Oliver Twist are my least favorite Dickens.

You read the Silmarillion! Wow!

[vaznetti]

People keep telling me that not all Dickens is as bad as David Copperfield, and I keep looking dubious.

Is reading the Silmarillion really an accomplishment? I really like Tolkein, and it's not like I don't read ancient epic for fun anyway.

[octavia_b]

Oh I loathed Catcher in the Rye too. The only Dickens novel I haven't hated was A Tale of Two Cities but that's because I read it when I was 12. I tried re-reading it as adult and thought it was rubbish. But DO read Jane Eyre and Crime and Punishment. They're worth it, although the second half of JE is a little Victorian and the ending a bit pat.

I should do this. I've read a frightening number of the books on this list, although I don't know what that says about me.

[vaznetti]

I've never gone back to Catcher in the Rye, but my teacher was really mean about my not liking it. My attitude was, "This is a book about some dumb boy I don't care about, who needs to get over himself."

I think it just means that you read the books you buy, rather than leaving them lying around unread.

[subtly_modded]

Oh, I love it when I have time to do one of these. MMMMM books!

[holli]

I had to read Tess my senior year of high school, but I had wonderful teacher who encouraged me to write an essay about why it sucked. Very cathartic, that.

[vaznetti]

That's really cool! If only the teacher who had assigned me David Copperfield had let me do something similar!

[holli]

Well, the assignment was to write an essay. Nobody said it had to be a *nice* essay, and writing about what you really think of the book is a great way to make up for the fact that you had to read the thing.