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[ SECRET POST #3986 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3986 ⌋

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I very strongly and emphatically disagree with your opinions on the book in question. And I'm sorry you didn't like it but there's really no reason to be a huge fucking asshole about it.

Come on. It's okay to have a negative opinion about a book, even a strongly negative one.

dude it's an anonymous secret community why are you so mad
all they did is vent

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(Anonymous) - 2017-12-02 21:54 (UTC) - Expand

If this weren't FS, I would agree with you. But it's FS; if their opinion weren't super harsh, this wouldn't even be a secret.

Also, they aren't insulting people who do like the book. I mean, they hate the book so much I wouldn't be surprised if they privately think people who like it are all posers with no minds of their own or something. But the fact remains, they're not actually saying anything like that, so it's fine.

Op of secret

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Oh, boo-hoo. Grow up.

Bruh chill, I'm allowed to not like things you like

Ladies and gentleman, education in America.

Oh, come the fuck on

Eh? The American educational system needs a lot of work, but holding up the fact that a person didn't like a specific book isn't the damning proof you seem to think it is.

Okay, I'm the kind of person who casually insults Americans way more than necessary, but even I don't get where you're coming from here. It's okay to dislike a book, and it makes perfect sense to outright despise it if you're being forced to read it.

For instance, I acted exactly like this when I had to read Catcher in the Rye in school.

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froodle - 2017-12-04 19:42 (UTC) - Expand

I hardly think that one person's dislike for what is objectively a very unusual narrative style means every American is a semi literate boor

Cool book report, yo.

I take issue with the implication that such literature has no merits, but I also couldn't stand it, so.

I'm not a big fan of stream of consciousness writing myself, and I find I don't remember much of To The Lighthouse. However, one thing I will say for it, and for Virginia Woolf, is that I prefer her stream of consciousness writing to most others' I've read in that style. And, in particular, I vastly prefer it to James Joyces' stream of consciousness writing. I disliked Ulysses just about as much as you disliked TTL.

Then again, IIRC, Woolf herself felt much the same way about Ulysses, so I'll count myself in good company. :P

I know Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man isn't as much of a display of the style as Ulysses is, but I was supposed to read Portrait of the Artist in high school and I couldn't finish it, when usually the idea of me not doing a class assignment has the probability of Hermione Granger not doing one.

I was forced to read Mrs. Dalloway, and you're 100% correct. It was one of the worst books I've ever had to read.

I had to read the book for a class and did enjoy it, but I understand why other people might not enjoy it and it's perfectly valid to feel the way you do, OP. I had to read Wuthering Heights for four different classes and absolutely hated it. I actually enjoyed Twilight more than Wuthering Heights.

I love To the Lighthouse with all my heart, OP, but I’m glad you got that off your chest.

I felt this way about Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.

It was just so BORING. It erased itself from my mind as I was reading it. Truly a unique phenomenon, I've never had another book do that to me.

So, sincerely: thank you, OP, now I never have to read to attempt to read this book!

(P.S. Everyone recommends it, but the mere concept and the quotes from it just want to make me slam my head into a wall.)

I was so bored by Ancillary Justice but I read it for a book club so I felt like I had to finish it. I thought maybe it was just me because the other people in the club seemed to like it.

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I tried to read this but, like you -boring. And it's completely gone from my brain, now.

But I loved 'Orlando'.

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tabaqui - 2017-12-03 02:39 (UTC) - Expand

I love this secret because I think TTLH is okay but I’m never a huge VW fan, but only because this is how I feel about Emma. The way I feel about Emma is a the Cluedo gif “flames on the side of my face”, and people lose their shit over Austen.

Also her fans will not hear a word against it. And for the record, not educated in America!

Man, I feel you, OP.

I'm in an English Lit grad program and I could not stand this book. I can acknowledge that it had literally value in context as an experience in stream-of-consciousness and reflection on modern bourgeois whatever whatever, but my god was it dull. I quit halfway through.

I did really like the 3 pages of the kid imagining giant animals at the beach or whatever it was. That was lovely writing.

I'd definitely be interested in hearing about how other Woolf books are different, though, because I want to try again with something else someday.

I am in complete agreement with you. The first half of the book was kind of ok because I thought it was going somewhere, but then a major character dies in a parenthetical note and I realized I was in for a long haul.

Just chiming in to say you're not alone.

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