Quotations and Literature Forum

Beowolf. i don't think i spelled that right though.

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"In my time, nightmares walked among us, skewering victims in plain sight...This to make us laugh. And now nightmares are trapped inside the heads of humans...I wonder whom they angered so to merit such a fate?"

It's not that I cannot understand her...it is just that she bores me to death... I just never really care about the characters enough to make me want to finish the novel (In all fairness, I never did actually finish any of hers...couldn't bring myself to do it)

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Scroll buttons, never looked so good!
Scrollin' up and down, like you knew they would.

-Vocal stylings of Strongbad

Augh, let's see....

I hate, hate, HATE books where it's about some kid whose mother dies, and they get a stepmom who they don't like at first, but then eventually love.
*shudder*

Lesse, what else...

Watership Down was just.... boring. I fell asleep two chapters in.

The Angels Command! Don't get me wrong, I love Brian Jacques' books. I even did a book report on the Flying Dutchman. But the Angels Command sucked SO BAD!!!! Did it even have a plot?! I swear, I could not find one.

Beyond the Western Sea by Avi... both books.. Oh gosh, I actually thought they would be INTERESTING!!! *bangs head against wall* Those had to be some of the most boring books that I ever tried to read-

MIdnight Magic, also by Avi. It was alright up until the middle, but then it got all strange and confusing. It seemed like the storyline was going no where! Another boring book that I couldn't ever finish..

Oh yes, and the books I hate the very most, are those that are absolutely perfect until the end. And then you want to strangle the author for ruining it!! (Like I wanted to do after I read the Two Sisters of Bamarre)

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And though we live in this cruel world,
where nothing seems to go right.
When war is everywhere you look,
and we can't see the light-
There's always hope
because what doesn't
destroy us, will make us
stronger! ~Me

absolutely marlo morgan's "Mutant Message Down Under"..it is te most stupist book i have ever had to read. i read it because of my studies and because of our teacher's order i couldnt stand to read every single page, i passed many pages. best wishes to marlo morgan, a few hours couldnt be that long in my life.. ans also best wishes to my teacher, a professional couldnt choose that kinda stupid, boring book.

I finished reading a western the other day. It was called 'First To Die' by G.T. Dunn, I believe. It was awful. The writing was poor, unlike "West Of Eden" by Mike Stall which was thoroughly enjoyable.

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I carry my smile in my pocket
A sight of beauty is opposed
Distorted and mutated faces of God
We paint; we visualize
We prove nothing but lies
You can't reclaim plates of lost souls

from 'Dying Light' by me

I read Flaubert's Madame Bovary long ago and remember there wasn't a single character I liked or empathized with and found it not to be spectacular in any way. I am revisiting some literature now... may read it again to see if I still think the same.

haha..

Ah, it was a little tedious... But I think I've read worse.

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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. -Mark Twain

i gotta say i really enjoyed waiting for godot. rosencreantz and guildenstern... is much better though

-j

Really? I haven't read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern...

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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. -Mark Twain

oh, it's really good. more stuff actually happens than in waiting for godot, which is more or less four guys standing around waiting. rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead is very similar, but also really funny, and great to see acted out. there's a really good movie version, but i can't remember who did it. zephirelli maybe? nah that doesn't sound right... oh well.

-j

ha ha! What bores one person excites another.

The most boring book I ever read? Well, Moby Dick wasn't THE most boring book I have ever read, but it was pretty boring. And yeah, Old Man in the Sea was a bit tedious, but there were aspects of both books that I enjoyed. Jane Austen, same thing. Some things about her books, I enjoyed, but other aspects bored me.

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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
~Bertrand Russell

Allright, maybe I am strange, but I LOVED the Old Man and the Sea and Waiting for Godot!


Anyone out there reading/read Memories of My Melancholy Whores????

Beth