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| gorky
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 Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:38 am Post subject: Hated authors |
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We've had the favourites...now which authors do we detest
I submit Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy.
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| steven
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:17 am Post subject: |
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I might have been hallucinating, but I was hanging around the Radish a few nights ago and read a post by Gorky that exclaimed his hatred of Orwell; a post which now seems to have been deleted into nothingness, possibly cause it also said Buddhists and vegetarians should be shot?
Tell the truth...
PS: Also not a big fan of Austen or Hardy or most things British and nineteenth century. |
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| gorky
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I might have been hallucinating, but I was hanging around the Radish a few nights ago and read a post by Gorky that exclaimed his hatred of Orwell; a post which now seems to have been deleted into nothingness, possibly cause it also said Buddhists and vegetarians should be shot? |
Honestly, can't I put anything down the memory hole without somebody noticing?
Yes, I confess comrade, to crimes against Big Orwell and Ingsoc. I posted an anti-Orwell message to the favourite authors forum, but then I thought that it seemed far too grouchy and mean to ruin the favourite authors thread with my bile. Hence a new thread.
The Orwell quote I noted, which is worth keeping in mind, was that: "The greatest joy in the world would be to bayonet a Buddhist priest's guts.", which is a quote from Shooting an Elephant. However, my sense of fair play got the better of me, for Orwell was merely suggesting that those sort of feelings commonly manifest themselves in young men doing the work of empires (in this case the British empire). So some judicious editing was in order.
I also noted he disliked vegetarians, can't remember if I said they should be shot, probably not. The electric chair is far more humane.
Anyway, I confess, I confess. It didn't even need Room 101.
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| steven
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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I'm sure we all have a lot of respect for your honesty, because I think you could have got away with saying I'm mad and imagined it.
Vegetarian-wise, I think he said they're cranks, equivalent to nudists, that put ordinary men and women off socialism. |
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| gorky
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Vegetarian-wise, I think he said they're cranks, equivalent to nudists, that put ordinary men and women off socialism. |
Yes, I think that about sums it up.
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| theanonymousgeographer
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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| I had a look at my cousins Jacqueline Wilson books and they are crap. Some kids books are cool enough but i cant stand them! |
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| jenc_green
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| I thought Pride and Prejudice was ok, a bit like their version of a soap though. I know lots of people who love Hardy although I haven't read any of his |
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| hannoir
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| Dear Prudence
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CHARLES DICKENS. CHARLES DICKENS. CHARLES DICKENS.
Pride and Prej is great, put off by all the others though.
Whichever Bronte sister wrote Jane Eyre, although I love Wuthering Heights.
GERVASE PHINN. ARGGGGHGHHH.
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| ZiggyMarley
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| Dear Prudence wrote: | CHARLES DICKENS. CHARLES DICKENS. CHARLES DICKENS.
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Although I like Dickens I find David Copperfield really rubbish. I also can't stand the old film version of Oliver. |
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| steven
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| Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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| David Copperfield is a fascinating book to read about and write about, but a godawful trawl of a book to actually read. Jane Eyre was by Charlotte Bronte. And yes, Wuthering Heights is the sex. |
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| gorky
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| steven wrote: | | Jane Eyre was by Charlotte Bronte.. |
Anyone who likes Jane Eyre should also check out Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. It's sort of a prequel, but that description doesn't do it justice.
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| deadman
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Recommended Books
On The Road - Jack Kerouac. (full of energy and spirit)
1984 - George Orwell.
What A Carve Up! - Jonathon Coe (sprawling, hilarious, intense)
Anything by Hunter S. Thompson
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
Women - Charles Bukowski (you'll want to live a wasteful life).
Love All The People - Bill Hicks (thoughtful, wise comedian)
Complete Prose - Woody Allen (unstoppable)
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs (don't read it in one go)
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller.
Adventures in the Screen Trade - William Goldman
On Writing - Stephen King.
Self-Ed.
Things they don't teach you in school/Uni. you need to know.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki.
(ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL. Snaps you into a whole new way of looking at the world. GET IT).
Your Money or Your Life - Alvin Hall.
(accessible guide to the basics)
Awaken The Giant Within - Tony Robbins.
(400 pages of content! If you can stomach the title and style, it's a good read).
The Manipulated Man - Esther Vilar.
(VERY alternative perspectives on the fairer sex, by a woman. Only available at Amazon.co.uk)
More if you want it.
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| Georgy Porgy
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| theanonymousgeographer wrote: | | I had a look at my cousins Jacqueline Wilson books and they are crap. Some kids books are cool enough but i cant stand them! |
completely agree. jacqueline wilson's books are really depressing aswell. wasn't she a social worker before writing books?
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| bionicwaldorf
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:43 pm Post subject: J K Rowling |
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much prefer Tolkien
plus some locations are in Brum |
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