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I'm reading The Great Gatsby right now. Three chapters into it, and I'm honestly not impressed...
Well, I'm gonna keep reading, maybe there will be an interesting twist somewhere.

Oh, trust me, there is. Honestly, it's a bit slow in the beginning, but it gets better. I've finished it in a few hours a while back.

I've been trying to read Brothers Karamazov, but I only find it interesting in small chunks, then I just get bored and annoyed.

You've got to get really used to Dostoevsky to enjoy it. The Brothers Karamazov might have been my least favorite of the three I've read, even though it is accepted as his greatest work. Also, I have found in rereading The Idiot that this stuff is a whole lot better the second time around. Once you know how the story goes, you can actually understand why everything is in there, where the first time it almost seems like the whole book is pointless.

I read the Great Gatsby; I didn't like it as much as the rest of the world seems to love it. I think I was somewhat soured on it by having a truly awful teacher at the time, though.

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I still didn't hate it or anything, but it was one of those books that everyone kept trying to tell me "all the kids love" (that's not a real quote but that sort of thing) and that doesn't push me toward it either. Then the teacher wouldn't stop with bullshit stuff about it. I am all for over-analysis of literary things, usually, but she was just obsessed with talking about why things were the color that they were.

I read the Great Gatsby; I didn't like it as much as the rest of the world seems to love it. I think I was somewhat soured on it by having a truly awful teacher at the time, though.

[EDIT]
I still didn't hate it or anything, but it was one of those books that everyone kept trying to tell me "all the kids love" (that's not a real quote but that sort of thing) and that doesn't push me toward it either. Then the teacher wouldn't stop with bullshit stuff about it. I am all for over-analysis of literary things, usually, but she was just obsessed with talking about why things were the color that they were.

Color...?

I suppose your teacher ruined the book then. Mine was great. Truth be told, his class (American Lit) actually got me back into reading, in the 11th grade. He's an author as well, so that helps.

*SPOILERS BELOW*

Back to Gatsby: It's a Novella, it's a fun story if you're into that time period. My grandmother was born right around then, so maybe that's why I like reading about it: Just seeing a glimpse of the "Roaring Twenties."

And it's a Love Story, a tragic Romeo and Juliet...in its own respect.

*END SPOILERS*

All in all, it's one of my favorites, but I understand if you don't like it other than because your teacher ruined it. Everyone has different tastes, American classics may vary between Americans.

I decided I'm going to read Joyce's Ulisses.
Oh boy. xD

Reas "Finnegans Wake"!

A long time ago I started to read Paradise Lost. I have never experienced something so difficult to understand. More than half of the lines in the poem had footnotes. It was insane. I got about a tenth of the book in then set it aside, and suddenly nothing else was hard to read anymore. Faust (part 1) was a breeze, I still can't figure out why everyone was complaining about Crime and Punishment, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest felt more like watching a movie than reading. (I haven't seen the movie.)

Sublevel said to me to install some anti-Vurn defense here.

ENIHCAMBUS wrote:Sublevel said to me to install some anti-Vurn defense here.

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Activating protocol #834

ENIHCAMBUS wrote:said to me

Or rather 'told me'. The verb 'to say' is usually intransitive.

Vurn wrote:Or rather 'told me'. The verb 'to say' is usually intransitive.

But "to me" is not a direct object, so technically the grammar's right, not?
(at least my English book accepted that construction)

EDIT: wait, I'm not sure...