"I didn't like her at all and I don't see how anyone could like her, she isn't charming with her stupidity, she isn't really pretty."
"Pretty pointless story for anyone in today's society to understand or care about"
"It makes backwards time travel less and less appealing."
"A very short book, and from a historical perspective it's one of the very first novels written."
"Daisy is a hooker.
Daisy Miller is a two timing whore. Every time she spoke I wanted to punch her."
"Daisy Miller as a character is a tease and the hero should have given up long ago."
"I had to read this dreadful book to complete an essay for English class. This book is pointless, not to mention boring. Anyone who has to read this book i feel sorry for!! The book is past its time and no teeager today could even begin to relate to this sad fictional prtoagonist, Dasiy Miller. The only purpose this book serves is to waste your time. Stay away form this worthless novella, this book is a waste paper i can't belive its actually printed"
"James killed Daisy in order to assure his European friends — rather than his American readers — that he was 'not like that', i.e., not like Daisy."
"I love to read. I’m absurdly nerdy ... While I love to read, there are some books I just can’t stand and will never ever understand. In college I took a Lit class that was so terrible to me and I felt like an idiot and a bad bookworm because I hate most of the classics. I hate The Great Gatsby. I hate Daisy Miller. Them, which isn’t technically a classic, is the worst book I’ve ever read just because I don’t get it. Books assigned in school almost always suck and are super complicated, outdated, and plain old complicated."
"I disliked Daisy Miller. I hated Daisy Miller. I wasn't sad at all when she died. She deserved it."
"Daisy Miller deserved to die because she's a slut and a tease"
"If we search someone to blame for the death of 'innocent' Daisy, i think she herself is the one to blame ... You thought you were more intelligent than Mrs. Walker. Girl, you should have listened to her advises. You were so arrogant and you thought you were a wise guy. You found yourself in the astonishing life of Europe. Travelling around the Europe didn’t improve your knowledge but your arrogance in society. You deserve death…
:)"
"If someone insists on doing wrong things,then let him/her to do it...Nothing can be effective than seeing the results of some mistakes,even if it is death!Daisy Miller deserves to die!Good end:)"
"Society was very strict and everybody laughed or made gossip after Daisy. However, the real responsible for Daisy’s death was Daisy’s herself. These kind of people, I mean who made gossip or laughed , can be seen everywhere. So people should behave according to the norms of the society."
Showing posts with label henry james. Show all posts
Showing posts with label henry james. Show all posts
Monday, March 11, 2013
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Henry James - Daisy Miller
"As Michael Crichton said about Henry James, 'I can't stand Henry James. His stuff reads like a first draft.'"
"The dialect consistently switches European languages, making reading difficult. The author also on a consistent basis lapses into descriptions of Daisy which, if anything, detract from the intentions of Henry James. Also, the characters switch languages in the middle of sentences."
"The fact that it's a 'classic' should only be taken to mean that the language 'sounds' 'classic' in the most dull, stereotypical sense."
"O dearest Henry James. Why art thou so wordy?!"
"This Giovanelli fellow comes across to me as a homosexual, I can't simply understand him. Even though during the 19th century there was never any exposed human contact between an unmarried couple per se but still I cannot see them marrying each other. Thank God they never did. No, Giovanelli to me would be Daisy's unhired stylist and gay acquaintance there by the reason for them spending so much time together but still no engagement. End of story."
"This book made me depressed while reading it because most people know the emptiness inside how it feels to be lead on. All i could do while reading is to sympathize for Winterborne who had strong feelings for Daisy but she teased him. I can understand that if you realling want someone, then you will have to fight for their heart, but knowing Daisy's personality, it's sick. I learned to respect other peoples emotions and be honest with them instead of torturing them inside for the possibility for love."
"I shiver when I hear 'Henry James', convulse at the book cover, and gag at the prospect of ever touching the cursed pages again."
"The underlying message is she got what she deserved because she was not a good girl."
"I didn't like Daisy at all, she was an attention-seeker and she deserved to be criticized."
"There is no protagonist I wished harm on MORE than Daisy Miller. I hated her from the moment I met her and then continually hated her throughout the whole book. She's stubborn, stuck up, flirtatious but in that annoying way that just makes her a frilly childish nuisance, she's uneducated, rude, culturally insensitive and honestly boring ... SHE'S AN IMMATURE EMPTY-HEADED COQUETTE (one of the terms from the class that forced me to read this book). I felt like her stupidity wins her EXACTLY what she deserved at the end of this book. I actually felt relief knowing that the narrator is saved from his own idiotic attraction to this woman."
"DAISY MILLER is part of my 'appetizer' book series for my pre-IB kids in 2011 ... it is the kind of 'girl book' I am loathe to teach...."
"The dialect consistently switches European languages, making reading difficult. The author also on a consistent basis lapses into descriptions of Daisy which, if anything, detract from the intentions of Henry James. Also, the characters switch languages in the middle of sentences."
"The fact that it's a 'classic' should only be taken to mean that the language 'sounds' 'classic' in the most dull, stereotypical sense."
"O dearest Henry James. Why art thou so wordy?!"
"This Giovanelli fellow comes across to me as a homosexual, I can't simply understand him. Even though during the 19th century there was never any exposed human contact between an unmarried couple per se but still I cannot see them marrying each other. Thank God they never did. No, Giovanelli to me would be Daisy's unhired stylist and gay acquaintance there by the reason for them spending so much time together but still no engagement. End of story."
"This book made me depressed while reading it because most people know the emptiness inside how it feels to be lead on. All i could do while reading is to sympathize for Winterborne who had strong feelings for Daisy but she teased him. I can understand that if you realling want someone, then you will have to fight for their heart, but knowing Daisy's personality, it's sick. I learned to respect other peoples emotions and be honest with them instead of torturing them inside for the possibility for love."
"I shiver when I hear 'Henry James', convulse at the book cover, and gag at the prospect of ever touching the cursed pages again."
"The underlying message is she got what she deserved because she was not a good girl."
"I didn't like Daisy at all, she was an attention-seeker and she deserved to be criticized."
"There is no protagonist I wished harm on MORE than Daisy Miller. I hated her from the moment I met her and then continually hated her throughout the whole book. She's stubborn, stuck up, flirtatious but in that annoying way that just makes her a frilly childish nuisance, she's uneducated, rude, culturally insensitive and honestly boring ... SHE'S AN IMMATURE EMPTY-HEADED COQUETTE (one of the terms from the class that forced me to read this book). I felt like her stupidity wins her EXACTLY what she deserved at the end of this book. I actually felt relief knowing that the narrator is saved from his own idiotic attraction to this woman."
"DAISY MILLER is part of my 'appetizer' book series for my pre-IB kids in 2011 ... it is the kind of 'girl book' I am loathe to teach...."
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Henry James - The Turn of the Screw II
"I only decided to read this book because there was a brief reference to it in an episode of 'LOST'. Similar to watching 'LOST', I was often confused at what the hell was exactly going on in this book ... I would recommend Nicole Kidman's 'The Others' as an acceptable alternative to reading this book."
"I felt no connection with any of the characters, and the narrator (a governess who is flat to the point of wafer thin and who is obviously so disposable James didn't even bother gracing her with a name) just left me feeling hollow."
"I have never read a story with so many commas before !"
"even being an avid literature fan myself, i had to sit with a dictionary and look up every second word."
"This book is mostly nonsense about evil dead people trying to lure children to their ways. I won't even comment on the story. What interests me though is the mind of Henry James. He was a committed anglophile. In fact, he seems to have believed all the claptrap of England's aristocratic society. It seems to shine most brightly in this book. The children in question are aristocrats. The boy, a beautiful, young gentleman, was tossed out of school for reasons unknown, and James has his heroine make the case that it must be wrong since, indeed, the boy was a beautiful, young gentleman. (The ghosts in the story are, of course, common and vulgar.) I thought this sort of class nonsense was why we fought the redcoats in the first place, but James seems to accept it as the true way. If he were alive today, he'd be a Randian. Like all good converts, he seems to hold his class prejiduces more strongly than the natives. Of course the little snot could steal and cheat and cavort with ghosts! Anyway, I didn't think much of this book. And I was just beginning to think I sort of liked James."
"Many people will say: 'you can't judge a 19th-century book according to our 21th century standards'. Good point, but yes, I can."
"Would someone who has read this please explain to me what in the h e double heck it is supposed to be about? Ghost story? Moral tale? Nothing?"
"The Wikipedia page listed controversies about the book: is the main narrator imagining things? Are her interpretations of what she sees true? Are the children complicit in The Evil involved in consorting with the dead?
Meh. What all those controversies mean to me is that even people who read PROFESSIONALLY don't have any idea why the hell James wrote this.
It really reads like it was a children's fairy story... only duller than that. Much MUCH duller. So children couldn't be expected to finish it. I am NOT a child, and I had a hard slog, which is quite something for as short as it is.
Here's the point of the book: 'WOO, SCARY! if you come from a family that isn't careful, your children will be followed by pedophiles from BEYOND THE GRAVE! Ones who are so evil and debased that they'll make your children LIKE THEM! Woo!!'
Yeah, not too likely."
"Often whole pages are chock-filled with relentless text."
WHOLE PAGES OF TEXT! WHAT IN THE HEHECKHECK IS ALL THIS TEXT DOING IN MY BOOK
"I felt no connection with any of the characters, and the narrator (a governess who is flat to the point of wafer thin and who is obviously so disposable James didn't even bother gracing her with a name) just left me feeling hollow."
"I have never read a story with so many commas before !"
"even being an avid literature fan myself, i had to sit with a dictionary and look up every second word."
"This book is mostly nonsense about evil dead people trying to lure children to their ways. I won't even comment on the story. What interests me though is the mind of Henry James. He was a committed anglophile. In fact, he seems to have believed all the claptrap of England's aristocratic society. It seems to shine most brightly in this book. The children in question are aristocrats. The boy, a beautiful, young gentleman, was tossed out of school for reasons unknown, and James has his heroine make the case that it must be wrong since, indeed, the boy was a beautiful, young gentleman. (The ghosts in the story are, of course, common and vulgar.) I thought this sort of class nonsense was why we fought the redcoats in the first place, but James seems to accept it as the true way. If he were alive today, he'd be a Randian. Like all good converts, he seems to hold his class prejiduces more strongly than the natives. Of course the little snot could steal and cheat and cavort with ghosts! Anyway, I didn't think much of this book. And I was just beginning to think I sort of liked James."
"Many people will say: 'you can't judge a 19th-century book according to our 21th century standards'. Good point, but yes, I can."
"Would someone who has read this please explain to me what in the h e double heck it is supposed to be about? Ghost story? Moral tale? Nothing?"
"The Wikipedia page listed controversies about the book: is the main narrator imagining things? Are her interpretations of what she sees true? Are the children complicit in The Evil involved in consorting with the dead?
Meh. What all those controversies mean to me is that even people who read PROFESSIONALLY don't have any idea why the hell James wrote this.
It really reads like it was a children's fairy story... only duller than that. Much MUCH duller. So children couldn't be expected to finish it. I am NOT a child, and I had a hard slog, which is quite something for as short as it is.
Here's the point of the book: 'WOO, SCARY! if you come from a family that isn't careful, your children will be followed by pedophiles from BEYOND THE GRAVE! Ones who are so evil and debased that they'll make your children LIKE THEM! Woo!!'
Yeah, not too likely."
"Often whole pages are chock-filled with relentless text."
WHOLE PAGES OF TEXT! WHAT IN THE HEHECKHECK IS ALL THIS TEXT DOING IN MY BOOK
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
"It is supposed to be a 'ghost' 'story' but is neither a story nor is it about ghosts ... Apparently it's a must for the GRE, but do not be mistaken. It is the most un-literary thing I have ever listened to. And there is no screw."
"Henry James over uses the English language with an onslaught of fluffy words that waters down the text, diminishing any hint of fright or suspense. He uses words excessively, saying close to nothing. Nearly all of the writing was very vague and foggy."
"This book had an original plot, but was weird, in a strange way."
"Henry James, and many others from his generation, writes in such a way that I have to really think about each sentence to comprehend it. Not what I want from a book. Too many commas in each sentence."
"I've just finished reading this story and feel as if I've wasted 3 months of my life!"
"This book was like the movie The Others, but this was terrible."
"Spoiler alert: governess comes, master leaves, kids act weird, ghosts appear, no one knows what is happening or who to believe. You be the judge. That is the entire book and I wrote it in ONE sentence."
"Not worth wading through the archaic verse. Disappointing"
"Is all Henry James this hard to read? The sentences are so long with so many commas, I have to re-read sentences to get the meaning sometimes. I'm not a fan of books that make me feel dumb. I'll give it a little while longer.
Eh, couldn't finish. I started counting the commas, I got up to 9 in a single sentence! I find it hard to believe that that's correct grammer, but it must be I guess."
"OK, you see, the thing is, this was required reading for a Senior Writing Seminar. I was told that this was scary. Hmm, tlet me think... uh, no. Boring."
"Now maybe ghost sightings themselves were enough to give a shiver at the time TOTS was written, but in the age of Stephen King and Clive Barker, mere apparitions just aren't much of a challenge."
"So, I just finished The Turn of the Screw and found Henry James' writing to be agonizingly verbose bordering on pretentious. I think I'm officially out of the Brit Lit phase."
"This is the hardest book I've ever read."
"Henry James over uses the English language with an onslaught of fluffy words that waters down the text, diminishing any hint of fright or suspense. He uses words excessively, saying close to nothing. Nearly all of the writing was very vague and foggy."
"This book had an original plot, but was weird, in a strange way."
"Henry James, and many others from his generation, writes in such a way that I have to really think about each sentence to comprehend it. Not what I want from a book. Too many commas in each sentence."
"I've just finished reading this story and feel as if I've wasted 3 months of my life!"
"This book was like the movie The Others, but this was terrible."
"Spoiler alert: governess comes, master leaves, kids act weird, ghosts appear, no one knows what is happening or who to believe. You be the judge. That is the entire book and I wrote it in ONE sentence."
"Not worth wading through the archaic verse. Disappointing"
"Is all Henry James this hard to read? The sentences are so long with so many commas, I have to re-read sentences to get the meaning sometimes. I'm not a fan of books that make me feel dumb. I'll give it a little while longer.
Eh, couldn't finish. I started counting the commas, I got up to 9 in a single sentence! I find it hard to believe that that's correct grammer, but it must be I guess."
"OK, you see, the thing is, this was required reading for a Senior Writing Seminar. I was told that this was scary. Hmm, tlet me think... uh, no. Boring."
"Now maybe ghost sightings themselves were enough to give a shiver at the time TOTS was written, but in the age of Stephen King and Clive Barker, mere apparitions just aren't much of a challenge."
"So, I just finished The Turn of the Screw and found Henry James' writing to be agonizingly verbose bordering on pretentious. I think I'm officially out of the Brit Lit phase."
"This is the hardest book I've ever read."
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