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The greatest book you just. couldn't. finish.

^ I am with you on that - I tried to watch the movie Dune countless times because everyone raved about how fab it was - HORRIBLE - the worst movie of all time - just some fat guy covered in cankers trying to pawn off spice of some kind - miserable
 
Bram Stoker's Dracula. Apart from some inspired episodes I progressively found that it lacked bite.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, on the other hand: electrifying. I devoured it all in just a few sittings.
 
The Book of Mormon, The Pearl of Great Price, and Doctrines and Covenants.

They are published together in a bound volume referred to informally by the Mormons as a triple.

No matter how much I tried, I couldn't get through it. The phrasing and language reminded me of Wimpy's affectations when begging burgers off Popeye. It doesn't resemble anything to me other than a tired narrative doing its damnedest to sound like Jacobean English.
 
DepravedMuscleFTL said:
^ I am with you on that - I tried to watch the movie Dune countless times because everyone raved about how fab it was - HORRIBLE - the worst movie of all time - just some fat guy covered in cankers trying to pawn off spice of some kind - miserable
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Don’t know who would say that movie was something to rave about. Movie is pretty not good. Book is really good if you can get the hang of it. Not for everyone though.
 
ClubLevelVegan said:
Don’t know who would say that movie was something to rave about. Movie is pretty not good. Book is really good if you can get the hang of it. Not for everyone though.
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Because it was actually produced, it remains as a cult film, but even David Lynch agrees with you.
 
NotHardUp1 said:
The Book of Mormon, The Pearl of Great Price, and Doctrines and Covenants.

They are published together in a bound volume referred to informally by the Mormons as a triple.

No matter how much I tried, I couldn't get through it. The phrasing and language reminded me of Wimpy's affectations when begging burgers off Popeye. It doesn't resemble anything to me other than a tired narrative doing its damnedest to sound like Jacobean English.
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My Mormon high school buddy gave me a copy of the Book of Mormon and I tried to read it. Yep - didn't get far!
 
I didn't think that I would have anything to comment in this thread until I read someone said the Bible. I started reading it with the Old Testament and got to the part where someone begat someone and they begat someone and on and on and lost interest. They do read small exerts of it at church and that is enough for me.
 
I used to slog through every book I started. No more. If it gets where I don't like it..
goodbye. It's especially discouraging when it's by an author I liked. Ann Patchett's The Magician's Assistant is one of my favorite books ever. Her Bel Canto...no, no, no.
 
Ulysses also.

I didn't finish Finnegans Wake either, and figure that both for it and Ulysses I have better uses of my time. However, I have finished Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners, both of which I read in high school, and both of which I liked a lot. (I highly recommend The Dead, both the story and the film.) Finnegan was for a college lecture class in which the other assigned reading was The New Science (Giambattista Vico), The Ancient City (Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges), and Myth Religion and Mother Right (Johann Bachofen), all of them with the exception of Finnegan interesting to a point, but I doubt they're on many "greats" lists.(I actually finished Fustel de Coulanges, and occasionally dip back into it.) I slept through much of the class, and thought it was somewhat of a joke. It was the only class in which I've done so. My loss I'm sure. I'm amazed I still remember these titles.
 
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