Quotations and Literature Forum

Galileo's daughter.

moby dick is nothing compared to that thing

"Reply to DaVinci Code"

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"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
Voltaire

i think i may have to agree with that one. i think it topped Galileo's daughter for sleep inducing potential

Eagle's Gift by Carlos Castaneda. Confusing, boring and pointless. Beyond a doubt the worst book I've ever read. A desperate attempt at originality- achieving only to be absurd.

che

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Re vera, cara mea, mea nil refert.

i think that characterizes most of the books we've listed here,

and the ones it doesn't fall under the catagory of 'waste of paper'

Well, I disagree with those who criticized the works of Dickens. Personally I... well, not enjoy, but like his books, especially Oliver Twist and Hard Times, as they offer us a window into the hardships of the less fortunate in his era.

Oh, and I LOVED Call of the Wild as a kid- I don't agree that that it's bad.
Jenny said that she hated Gulliver's travels- also one of my childhood favourites, though I read it again later and discovered the underlying social and political critique.

che

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Re vera, cara mea, mea nil refert.

Hey, everyone's different, we all like different things.

i havent read the old man and the sea but have a feeling taht i am gona find it utter boring... well i loved the gullivers tales and jane eyre(though before reading it i thought it would turn be boring, but turns out that i liked the story a lot).

I have actually enjoyed a lot of the books that other people didnt like, though i do have to agree that Watership Down never seemed to end! i think i ended up giving it away.

Dickens is so bleak. there seems to be nothing good about his life at all

I LOVED the Angel's Command though the plot did wander. Have you read the new book? It's called Voyages of Slaves. I had a few problems with it but it was good.

Not saying we didn't necessarily like them, just that they were, long, boring, or hard to get through. there have been books that i have hated all the way through till the very last sentence, then i loved it, and i still count them among the worst books i have read because while i was reading them i hated them. If that makes any sense.

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Sanctuary: a small safe place in a troubling world

Elaborate please, Che.

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To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

alex callinicos, social theory. kill me kill me kill me..........

we will not kill you, however you can feel free to vent about the book all you like.

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Sanctuary: a small safe place in a troubling world

the teacher will continue to kill me in a few hours.. i think she is trying to evaluate how much patient we are.