CONFUCIUS - ANALECTS
"It espouses an approach that I would consider soft (don't just focus on money, etc)."
SWIFT - A MODEST PROPOSAL
"I had a hard time with the thought of suggesting that the children of the poor be used as a source of food and clothing and just couldn't finish it."
PUSHKIN - EUGENE ONEGIN
"rhymed verse detracts from enjoyment of the novel."
DARWIN - ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
"still even today this books contradicts itself and it doesn't answer the most simple question,if we humanscare descending from monkeys,why and when did we became conscius ?!"
"This is just crud cause do you really believe that we came from monkeys I mean seriously. What comes after monkeys? MONKEYS! And what come after humans? HUMANS!! I'm a Christian and I believe what is true. I'm not trying to force religion on you (by the way Christianity isn't a religion it's a relationship with our one, true, living Creator) but how can you believe that we came from monkeys? Sure our skeletons look alike but that doesn't mean that we came from them! And how can Darwin ever be a Christian if he said we came from monkeys? How can monkey 'all of a suddenly' turned into humans? This is just pure crud."
SHAKESPEARE - THE TEMPEST
"The Tempest is an outdated attempt of a sci-fi story. Yes it may have been a basis for many other authors and even present day movies, but his stories are so inapplicable and painful to read that I think they should just be destroyed. Hypothetically speaking, if Adolf Hitler was alive today and were to burn all of William Shakespeare’s texts, I feel as if the modern college and high school students would praise him just for this noble act. The only version of Shakespeare I will ever spend another minute on is if film producers have taken his story and somehow made it into a bad ass movie with a similar plot line."
DE BEAUVOIR - THE SECOND SEX
"feminism has certain core beliefs that are simply crazy -- yet women listen to the philosophy anyway."
JOYCE - DUBLINERS
"the fact is just plain and simply that Irish politics and what Ireland was going through in the early 2oth century just is not important"
"Nearly all the stories are boring. Our modern sensibilities have us yelling mentally at them, or rolling our eyes."
LAO TZU - TAO TE CHING
"Not very impressed. Philosophic fumblings about a mysterious power. Makes me so grateful to have the restored gospel of Jesus Christ."
ARISTOPHANES - THE BIRDS
"this title makes you think that its a field guide to birds but if you arent familiar with the aristophanes it is just nonsense"
JUNG - THE ARCHETYPES AND THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS
"i think we die millions of times like we dnt wake up the same the next day evan in a moment we die an r reborn how far into non exitence is yesterday its gone like it was never ther just the ties of repocution jus the memories of our consiousness its hard 2 explain sumthing i dnt understand evan in my head and 2 express acuratly but think about time patterns and blind spots the answers right ther but im not evan sure wat the question is"
"Jung and Freud were listened to only because they managed to convince people they knew what they were talking about. Their era was so filled with ignorance and illiteracy that everyone believe them, even though most to the time they were incorrect."
"Jung was an idiot who had little understanding of the life force."
DICKENS - A TALE OF TWO CITIES
"I read A Tale of Two Cities my freshman year of high school and it drove me crazy. That following summer, I went to London on a trip and toured Westminster Abbey. Most of the tour I avoided the graves as much as possible, but once I arrived at The Poet's Corner, I spotted Dickens' grave and, well...I was jumping up and down on the grave in a post-AToTC fury. The guide was appalled until my mother explained that I had read that particular novel for class only a month prior."
MELVILLE - BILLY BUDD, SAILOR
"Melville seemed to wonder off topic a lot, writing about stuff I really didn't care about."
DANTE - THE DIVINE COMEDY
"In the dark ages it seems the whole focus was on the negative."
ORWELL - ANIMAL FARM
"Well, I really did like how the book related to World War 2, I'm a HUGE history geek when it comes to World War 2"
"Very great way to exemplify Hitler's rule"
"ANIMALS RUN A FARM 15/10 LIVES UP TO THE NAME."
TOLSTOY - ANNA KARENINA
"Six words- That Anna is one jacked-up whack-o!"
"It took every ounce of effort to get through this never-ending novel. It's difficult for me to admit that I didn't find this book captivating. After all-I'm an English major!"
GENERAL ENGLISH MAJOR BULLSHIT
"I’m definitely aware of postmodernist tenants regarding having no universal truths and the subjectivity of individual existence…"
"I'll admit it: I don't read a lot of classics. I know, 'a real reader reads the classics' and all that but I have so many books to read that it just doesn't seem like I have time for a bunch of old books."
"Using Elvis Presley and christmas songs as an example, He still makes alot of money and we never hear new christmas songs, just remakes of the old classics, because they were first. Books are the same way. Certain books remain classics because they were first and people refuse to let go and move on and create newer books, songs, and artists to replace the original."
ON THE VICTORIAN NOVEL:
"Slightly different take, from someone with 2 degrees in English.
Yes, they do suck. . .
By OUR standards. They're over-long, end with deus ex machina too much of the time, depend on astonishing coincidence and 180-degree reversal, and all sorts of other stuff we would dismiss in our entertainment today.
But they're not writing for our market. They're writing for theirs, and understanding that is what makes them interesting to study.
200 years from now, Stephen King, Thomas Harris, Jane Green, Maeve Binchy, yes even JK Rowling, will seem boring/hideous/old/dusty to everyone too. That's just how it goes."
Showing posts with label dante. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Dante - The Divine Comedy IV
"'Twixt? Isn't that a candy bar? I'm going o'er there, back to Dr. Seuss! Back where I can read Withouten all these extraordinarily outdated words! If I were more into poetry I believe I would have loved to read this book, but...."
"A struggle to read, I feel like it would have read a lot better in the original Latin."
"I wanted to read or listen to it in Latin even though I don't know Latin. I found a recording by Librivox that I downloaded and listened to.
My wife though it was silly to listen to it in a language that I don't know. As I began to listen to it, I felt like I only knew perhaps a dozen words in Latin. But as I strove to understand what I was hearing, I have recognized enough words that my recognition vocabulary seems more like 100 words."
"I can not look beyond its catholic propaganda preached by an Italian drunkard who ultimately killed himself."
"a comedy uses common vernacular and tragedy uses high language. funny how common vernacular back then sounds so cryptic today"
"Dante's Divine Comedy is the worst book that I have read in my life, and that means a lot, because I also have read 'Twilight', well at least tried the first 50 pages ... it is of no importance today, it can give no joy to the reader, and the ideas expressed in the book are rare, old-fashioned and sometimes stupid. Overall, don't waste your time reading the Divine Comedy"
"Why did I even read this? Because I read Dan Brown's Inferno, which is based on this book. And because it's on Book Riot's 100 books to be well-read list.
This is a so called classic. I did not find it sensational or even that interesting, despite it being about hell. It was basically the same thing over and over: Dante (the narrator) goes with Virgil (his guide) to a section of hell, and in that section, dead people are being punished. He stops and talks to one of these sinners, and discovers their name and what they did to deserve their punishment. He moves on, and repeat. For something that had a lot of influence, this book is pretty tedious."
"when I read it almost 10 years ago, I HATED this book. Talking about circles of hell. I felt like I was in a circle of hell trying to get through this book."
"This book is the Journey of Dante Aligheri and his Journey through the 9 circles of hell. Each Circle contains diffrent sinners and as Dante goes deeper in, it'll get worst. Dante goes through hell, and when he gets out, he'll try desperately to find his long lost love Blanche."
"I would like to give Dante`s Hell , tow Stars for putting Muhanned in the ninth gulf of hell , because this is the place he deserve :D"
"A struggle to read, I feel like it would have read a lot better in the original Latin."
"I wanted to read or listen to it in Latin even though I don't know Latin. I found a recording by Librivox that I downloaded and listened to.
My wife though it was silly to listen to it in a language that I don't know. As I began to listen to it, I felt like I only knew perhaps a dozen words in Latin. But as I strove to understand what I was hearing, I have recognized enough words that my recognition vocabulary seems more like 100 words."
"I can not look beyond its catholic propaganda preached by an Italian drunkard who ultimately killed himself."
"a comedy uses common vernacular and tragedy uses high language. funny how common vernacular back then sounds so cryptic today"
"Dante's Divine Comedy is the worst book that I have read in my life, and that means a lot, because I also have read 'Twilight', well at least tried the first 50 pages ... it is of no importance today, it can give no joy to the reader, and the ideas expressed in the book are rare, old-fashioned and sometimes stupid. Overall, don't waste your time reading the Divine Comedy"
"Why did I even read this? Because I read Dan Brown's Inferno, which is based on this book. And because it's on Book Riot's 100 books to be well-read list.
This is a so called classic. I did not find it sensational or even that interesting, despite it being about hell. It was basically the same thing over and over: Dante (the narrator) goes with Virgil (his guide) to a section of hell, and in that section, dead people are being punished. He stops and talks to one of these sinners, and discovers their name and what they did to deserve their punishment. He moves on, and repeat. For something that had a lot of influence, this book is pretty tedious."
"when I read it almost 10 years ago, I HATED this book. Talking about circles of hell. I felt like I was in a circle of hell trying to get through this book."
"This book is the Journey of Dante Aligheri and his Journey through the 9 circles of hell. Each Circle contains diffrent sinners and as Dante goes deeper in, it'll get worst. Dante goes through hell, and when he gets out, he'll try desperately to find his long lost love Blanche."
"I would like to give Dante`s Hell , tow Stars for putting Muhanned in the ninth gulf of hell , because this is the place he deserve :D"
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Dante - The Divine Comedy III
"If it were published today, it would need serious improvements in the narrative form to keep up with the style of modern fantasy literature."
"Does anyone else think that Dante spent way too much time thinking up really hurtful things to do to everyone who ever even looked at him funny? ... once one realizes how many enemies Dante and his family had, and then read the books, you may wonder if Dante would have had a more fulfilling life if he learned forgiveness early on... I also wonder about what he could have written if he didn't have so much pent-up hatred."
"I cant believe they make high school students read this! Its an angry passive agressive man's attempt to write a book!"
"Dante uses an incredibly convoluted form of language and takes many lines to get his point across. Many sentences make no sense at all and must be examined in the greatest of detail to discern their meaning ... avoid The Divine Comedy outright, regardless of the edition; be it Wordsworth or the alternative from the Oxford Classics, you'll get confused relatively early on."
"I just wanna say that much I hate 'the divine comedy' the game looks good. Much similar to GoW. Even if we don't play it the rest of the world will and some of them will probably want to know about this Mr dante since EA will highlight the name in the game. And so a person who should be hated for such an act will become more popular."
"Much of my problem with this book was religious, namely the conflict between my atheism and Dante's Catholicism. I have trouble stomaching the idea that unborn babies and those born before Christianity universally belong in Hell, even in a part of Hell that includes no other torments but hopelessness. Furthermore, I find many forms of what would have been considered sodomy to be blameless, and I also have trouble believing that those who are false and traitorous should be in a lower circle than murderers. Heretics are also, obviously, blameless to the unbeliever ... Dante's Inferno may have once been a thrilling read, but that was quite a few hundred years ago."
"tHE iNFERXON
The book was in rather bad shape. With all the the writings, etc,.
it made it hard to read."
"Would Not Make It In Today's World
One of those classics that would not make it in today's world. There are some humorous parts, but the America is so over the edge with its shock culture, such as shock rock, and shock news that it makes this book seem quite dated."
"'The Comedy' is a collection of nonsense from an age so seeped in religious nonsense that nothing was in excess in the name of God. Considered a 'Classic' by generations of Christian zealots. I consider it (brace yourselves) trash."
"Why people feel so touchy about the books they 'should' like? Classic or not, who cares? Damn, I HATE the Divine Comedy. No big deal."
NO. NO! NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN OBSESSIVELY CATEGORIZING ALL PEOPLE BASED ON HOW CLOSELY THEIR NICHE INTERESTS FIT YOUR OWN SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH
"Does anyone else think that Dante spent way too much time thinking up really hurtful things to do to everyone who ever even looked at him funny? ... once one realizes how many enemies Dante and his family had, and then read the books, you may wonder if Dante would have had a more fulfilling life if he learned forgiveness early on... I also wonder about what he could have written if he didn't have so much pent-up hatred."
"I cant believe they make high school students read this! Its an angry passive agressive man's attempt to write a book!"
"Dante uses an incredibly convoluted form of language and takes many lines to get his point across. Many sentences make no sense at all and must be examined in the greatest of detail to discern their meaning ... avoid The Divine Comedy outright, regardless of the edition; be it Wordsworth or the alternative from the Oxford Classics, you'll get confused relatively early on."
"I just wanna say that much I hate 'the divine comedy' the game looks good. Much similar to GoW. Even if we don't play it the rest of the world will and some of them will probably want to know about this Mr dante since EA will highlight the name in the game. And so a person who should be hated for such an act will become more popular."
"Much of my problem with this book was religious, namely the conflict between my atheism and Dante's Catholicism. I have trouble stomaching the idea that unborn babies and those born before Christianity universally belong in Hell, even in a part of Hell that includes no other torments but hopelessness. Furthermore, I find many forms of what would have been considered sodomy to be blameless, and I also have trouble believing that those who are false and traitorous should be in a lower circle than murderers. Heretics are also, obviously, blameless to the unbeliever ... Dante's Inferno may have once been a thrilling read, but that was quite a few hundred years ago."
"tHE iNFERXON
The book was in rather bad shape. With all the the writings, etc,.
it made it hard to read."
"Would Not Make It In Today's World
One of those classics that would not make it in today's world. There are some humorous parts, but the America is so over the edge with its shock culture, such as shock rock, and shock news that it makes this book seem quite dated."
"'The Comedy' is a collection of nonsense from an age so seeped in religious nonsense that nothing was in excess in the name of God. Considered a 'Classic' by generations of Christian zealots. I consider it (brace yourselves) trash."
"Why people feel so touchy about the books they 'should' like? Classic or not, who cares? Damn, I HATE the Divine Comedy. No big deal."
NO. NO! NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN OBSESSIVELY CATEGORIZING ALL PEOPLE BASED ON HOW CLOSELY THEIR NICHE INTERESTS FIT YOUR OWN SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Dante - The Divine Comedy II
"Seeing as how Dante's Inferno is a hot topic nowadays, I was wondering: I've always wanted to 'read' The Divine Comedy, but I hate reading verse. Does anyone know of any books that do a straight adaptation of the work in a novelization-like form?"
"DUDE I HATE DANTE LOLOLLLLLLLL!"
"Not that many pages in, and I already love the feeling of 'fanciness' when you read a novel dated in time of the renaissance."
"I don't see the point of postmodernism if this is kind of the epitome of a postmodern work."
"I read this because I must. It isn't a bad book but I have been reading it for 3 years now. I just can't get all the way through. I pick it up and read a bit then put it down.
I read it because I was told it must be read, it is a classic. All good students of literature must read this, right?"
"I would prefer the game over the book because Dante in the book seems like a wimp almost every single seconds in Hell. In the game, he be destroying everything and it makes him more of a man. Even though the book and the game are some part are different but it's almost the same as each other. They both want Beatrice and they have to go through hell."
"It took me four and a half years to finish this book. It was that slow."
"'Comedy' was considered a 'low' art form and he was one of the first to use it when treating spiritual matters."
"I had heard a lot about Dante and his masterpiece,but when finally read that about approximately 7 years ago ,it didn't make me pleasure,I was disappointed!"
"Awesome book if you can tolerate looking up his 16th century references every 10 seconds."
"DUDE I HATE DANTE LOLOLLLLLLLL!"
"Not that many pages in, and I already love the feeling of 'fanciness' when you read a novel dated in time of the renaissance."
"I don't see the point of postmodernism if this is kind of the epitome of a postmodern work."
"I read this because I must. It isn't a bad book but I have been reading it for 3 years now. I just can't get all the way through. I pick it up and read a bit then put it down.
I read it because I was told it must be read, it is a classic. All good students of literature must read this, right?"
"I would prefer the game over the book because Dante in the book seems like a wimp almost every single seconds in Hell. In the game, he be destroying everything and it makes him more of a man. Even though the book and the game are some part are different but it's almost the same as each other. They both want Beatrice and they have to go through hell."
"It took me four and a half years to finish this book. It was that slow."
"'Comedy' was considered a 'low' art form and he was one of the first to use it when treating spiritual matters."
"I had heard a lot about Dante and his masterpiece,but when finally read that about approximately 7 years ago ,it didn't make me pleasure,I was disappointed!"
"Awesome book if you can tolerate looking up his 16th century references every 10 seconds."
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Dante - The Divine Comedy
"You meet a lot of ancient Greeks and Romans who are apparently famous, though I knew less than half of them."
"The Inferno is a book about a totally biased queer who writes about him traveling to hell. There, he receives Virgil as his guide and jollily travels along hell's circles (levels). There, he witnessed the punishments people would receive and it got harsher as he went on. Eventually he met the devil and climbed him back to earth. What a story."
"Although Dante's Inferno is supposed to be the best Commedy, I find that hard to believe."
"Too many circles of hell."
"inferno is a book in old old english so its really hard to understand but what i got is that its about hell. inferno tells how someone is pick to go to hell and what the 9 rings are like throught poetry.
when i was reading inferno i could not connet to any thing. i keep on thinking about where i would go and what it really was like when you died.
this book is for any one who is religous."
"The book was also very bias because Dante only wrote good things about the christains, everyone else was being tortured in hell. Overall, I would not recommend this book because I feel it is not worth reading, unless you need it for some type of literature test."
"As one of the girls in my book club noted when talking about the lower circles of hell, 'Dante must have been on something.'"
"Really it's only the fact that the book was written in poem form that annoyed me."
"This book is highly annoying. Seriously. Dante is a man that 'sugar-coats' stuff. In other words, he doesn't say things straight up. He says things too detailed and even though we want to know stuff with details, he takes a long time saying it. For example, if he wants to say 'The ice cream is white.' he will say 'The ice cream is as white as the first fallen snow in a cold winter day when the birds are cuddled in their nests and the fireplace...' Like that. Catch my drift?"
"An interesting look at what the afterlife might be in the 1600s.Old english is hard to read."
"It was very challenging to read because it was written as a epic and the words inside this epic were challenging. The way Dante the poet wrote the book was always challenging because he wrote in a way it was hard for us readers to understand."
"Shocking, I'm sure, back when there were no reality t.v. shows..."
"The Inferno is a book about a totally biased queer who writes about him traveling to hell. There, he receives Virgil as his guide and jollily travels along hell's circles (levels). There, he witnessed the punishments people would receive and it got harsher as he went on. Eventually he met the devil and climbed him back to earth. What a story."
"Although Dante's Inferno is supposed to be the best Commedy, I find that hard to believe."
"Too many circles of hell."
"inferno is a book in old old english so its really hard to understand but what i got is that its about hell. inferno tells how someone is pick to go to hell and what the 9 rings are like throught poetry.
when i was reading inferno i could not connet to any thing. i keep on thinking about where i would go and what it really was like when you died.
this book is for any one who is religous."
"The book was also very bias because Dante only wrote good things about the christains, everyone else was being tortured in hell. Overall, I would not recommend this book because I feel it is not worth reading, unless you need it for some type of literature test."
"As one of the girls in my book club noted when talking about the lower circles of hell, 'Dante must have been on something.'"
"Really it's only the fact that the book was written in poem form that annoyed me."
"This book is highly annoying. Seriously. Dante is a man that 'sugar-coats' stuff. In other words, he doesn't say things straight up. He says things too detailed and even though we want to know stuff with details, he takes a long time saying it. For example, if he wants to say 'The ice cream is white.' he will say 'The ice cream is as white as the first fallen snow in a cold winter day when the birds are cuddled in their nests and the fireplace...' Like that. Catch my drift?"
"An interesting look at what the afterlife might be in the 1600s.Old english is hard to read."
"It was very challenging to read because it was written as a epic and the words inside this epic were challenging. The way Dante the poet wrote the book was always challenging because he wrote in a way it was hard for us readers to understand."
"Shocking, I'm sure, back when there were no reality t.v. shows..."
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