Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
JM Coatzee. He won a Nobel prize for literature, but his books are good only for academics to write papers about.
Interesting. I've heard him praised before but have never read anything by him. What faults did you find in his works?
Cpt.Cocaine
Beethoven's 5th symphony. I hated it the first time I heard it and to this day I still fail to see what's so great about it.
MrJiveBoJingles
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Originally posted by Cpt.Cocaine
Beethoven's 5th symphony. I hated it the first time I heard it and to this day I still fail to see what's so great about it.
Do you like any of his other works? Other of his symphonies?
Seems like it's rare for people to enjoy other Beethoven but hate the 5th.
SYSTEM-J
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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Interesting. I've heard him praised before but have never read anything by him. What faults did you find in his works?
Well, to be fair, I've only read Foe, but it was a novel with so much effort put into the subtext that the actual text was just a flimsy conceit. There are large tracts consisting of the idiotic protagonist writing long and rambling letters that no real human would ever write unless they became trapped in a novel straining hard for a mimetic narrative strategy.
MrJiveBoJingles
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
There are large tracts consisting of the idiotic protagonist writing long and rambling letters that no real human would ever write unless they became trapped in a novel straining hard for a mimetic narrative strategy.
:haha:
I see.
SuspicionVandit
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astroboy
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Originally posted by Lira
No, after I read 1984, I promised myself I wouldn't read anything by Orwell's any time soon.
But, the reason why I disliked 1984 is not because it is cliché. It's because it is shallow and far-fetched. I don't know if you were born in Australia but, if you weren't, we both have in common the fact that we were born under dictatorships - so 1984 should not be that much far from home. Yet, it is.
Fair enough.. I read it a LOOONG time ago so can't even remember the specifics found it a fairly accurate representation of the Soviet/North Korean style dictatorships
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All right, I will read it in December :)
Ps.: By the way, what Sartre recommendation? You said you recommended me something by Sartre in another thread, but I don't remember :conf:
I originally thought this thread was going to be about moments like this:
Cpt.Cocaine
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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Do you like any of his other works? Other of his symphonies?
Not really. I just mentioned this one because that's the one that gets the most attention (and praise) in popular culture.
MrJiveBoJingles
Ahh, so you're just a Beethoven-hater then. ;)
Do you like other orchestral music from that era? I know some people that can only stand stuff from late nineteenth century (Debussy is often the cutoff point) and onward. And of course even more with no taste for classical music at all.
