[Wangers]

(Original post by vector)
Dostoyevsky is brave

Not to mention long!

[naivesincerity]

(Original post by sarCAZm)
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintinence

I tried that. A little too obscure and deep.

[vector]

(Original post by Wangers)
Not to mention long!

I tried The Brothers Karamazov, which I just couldn't be done with

[ukebert]

I've read the Idiot and Crime and Punishment, but Brothers Karamazov defeated me; probably because at the time I was reading it in snatches: not a particularly good way to proceed with a book like that. I'll try again before long.

[Elements]

(Original post by ukebert)
I've read the Idiot and Crime and Punishment, but Brothers Karamazov defeated me; probably because at the time I was reading it in snatches: not a particularly good way to proceed with a book like that. I'll try again before long.

Yes, "try, try try- or you'll never get to catch that fly". From a song off the children's video "Spider In The Bath". Did anyone else watch that when they were younger? *Hums tune and remembers*.

EDIT: Comment made in sleepiness.

[brimstone]

Well, just found I couldn't finish Burmese Days by George Orwell.

An incredibly slow read, got bored within forty pages :|

[nosnibor]

(Original post by Elements)
Yes, "try, try try- or you'll never get to catch that fly". From a song off the children's video "Spider In The Bath". Did anyone else watch that when they were younger? *Hums tune and remembers*

"There's a spider in the bath!
Spider in the bath.
A creepy, crawly, creepy, crawly spider in the bath.
I know he's only there because he wants to have a laugh.
With hairy legs and big [something] eyes
And [something] [something] [something] surprise!
Spider in the bath!"


AWESOME SHOW.

[Elements]

(Original post by nosnibor)
"There's a spider in the bath!
Spider in the bath.
A creepy, crawly, creepy, crawly spider in the bath.
I know he's only there because he wants to have a laugh.
With hairy legs and big [something] eyes
And [something] [something] [something] surprise!
Spider in the bath!"


AWESOME SHOW.

YES! Take some rep!

[Aspect]

1984, George Orwell. Tried, stuck with it for a good bit, but failed miserably. Plan on going back to it again at some point, but dread the thoughts of it as I'd say I was about half way through, but it was so long ago I know I'll have to read that first half again...

Daniel Derona, Mansfield Park, Emma to name a few others. Classics in general. These time periods and authors absolutely fascinate me, and I love their romantic writing style and plots, but I just can never seem to finish them.

[vector]

You couldn't finish 1984? That's unbelievable. You NEED to go back to it; you're missing out ;yes;

[Mikimoto]

Vanity Fair, I simply couldn't get through it. It's a monster of a book, and whilst the plot sounds fantastic (Cheated and read the synopsis on Wiki after I gave up) it takes so long and if you try and skip a few pages you're totally lost, yet in those few pages you haven't actually been told anything of significance. Part of me really wishes they'd bring out edited versions of the old classics.

Learning the Law, admittedly not fiction, but this seems so boring at times, but a Cambridge graduate with a first in Law told me he couldn't get through it, which made me feel a lot better.

His Dark Materials, I attempting reading the first, but ugh!! I think I'm just not that partial to fantasy, yet I like Harry Potter.

[Zebrastripes]

(Original post by Mikimoto)
Vanity Fair, I simply couldn't get through it. It's a monster of a book, and whilst the plot sounds fantastic (Cheated and read the synopsis on Wiki after I gave up) it takes so long and if you try and skip a few pages you're totally lost, yet in those few pages you haven't actually been told anything of significance. Part of me really wishes they'd bring out edited versions of the old classics.

Learning the Law, admittedly not fiction, but this seems so boring at times, but a Cambridge graduate with a first in Law told me he couldn't get through it, which made me feel a lot better.

His Dark Materials, I attempting reading the first, but ugh!! I think I'm just not that partial to fantasy, yet I like Harry Potter.

I got halfway through Vanity Fair, then gave up!! It was just so slow. The movie is 2 hours 15, and that is long enough (even though much easier to watch through than read the book). Same has happened to Villette (Charlotte Bronte), i've just put it down and i was over two thirds through, i just can't bring myself to finish it.. it seems i would be reading it forever!

[hobnob]

(Original post by ladydeborah)
I got halfway through Vanity Fair, then gave up!! It was just so slow. The movie is 2 hours 15, and that is long enough (even though much easier to watch through than read the book). Same has happened to Villette (Charlotte Bronte), i've just put it down and i was over two thirds through, i just can't bring myself to finish it.. it seems i would be reading it forever!

I quite enjoyed those two, actually. Vanity Fair isn't exactly action-packed, but I've read slower books - and I actually rather liked the cynicism. As for Villette, it was a bit strange, but overall, I think I preferred it to Jane Eyre. Although Lucy Snowe is a horrible person and really deserves to be unhappy...
Oh well, tastes just differ, I suppose.

[Zebrastripes]

(Original post by hobnob)
I quite enjoyed those two, actually. Vanity Fair isn't exactly action-packed, but I've read slower books - and I actually rather liked the cynicism. As for Villette, it was a bit strange, but overall, I think I preferred it to Jane Eyre. Although Lucy Snowe is a horrible person and really deserves to be unhappy...
Oh well, tastes just differ, I suppose.

Ooh please PM me and give me a synopsis of what happens at the end of Villette. I do really want to know, i just wanted to read other books instead. I've got up to the part where they start learning German.

[hobnob]

(Original post by ladydeborah)
Ooh please PM me and give me a synopsis of what happens at the end of Villette. I do really want to know, i just wanted to read other books instead. I've got up to the part where they start learning German.

Oh dear, it's been a while since I last read it, actually... Do you remember which chapter it was (roughly)?
Edit: Or did you mean that bit when she meets Ginevra Fanshawe?

[Kater Murr]

(Original post by brimstone)
Well, just found I couldn't finish Burmese Days by George Orwell.

An incredibly slow read, got bored within forty pages :|

I thought that was a fantastic book! Awww...

[Aspect]

(Original post by vector)
You couldn't finish 1984? That's unbelievable. You NEED to go back to it; you're missing out ;yes;

I think I was far too young when I attempted to read it; I'd say I was only about 14/15, and reading it for the wrong reasons (in that the 'Big Brother' concept had been based on it - yes very silly)

Now that I'm older and more appreciative of literature I'd love to go back to it, but you know when a dislike is stuck in your head... like how you can never brussel sprouts simply because your mother forced you to as a kid...

[*Joanna*]

I really couldn't get into Catcher in the Rye. I got about halfway through and it didn't go anywhere or do anything! So so boring.

I also didn't like Lady Chatterly's Lover or other DH Lawrence stuff either. Or 1984.

Spider is without a doubt one of the best kids' TV shows ever We have it on video.

[Elements]

(Original post by *Joanna*)
I really couldn't get into Catcher in the Rye. I got about halfway through and it didn't go anywhere or do anything! So so boring.

I also didn't like Lady Chatterly's Lover or other DH Lawrence stuff either. Or 1984.

Spider is without a doubt one of the best kids' TV shows ever We have it on video.

Mais oui; d'accord! Good; me too!

[vector]

(Original post by BornUnderPunches)


I thought that was a fantastic book! Awww...

I haven't found any Orwell books I don't like ;no;