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Any book that makes you uncomfortable ? (pg. 5)
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| I really felt The Great Gatsby was the first great work of fiction I'd ever read, sorry to say. The completely innocuous chapter where they are at some party getting drunk, and the chapter just degrades in writing style as they become more and more intoxicated, to the point where it it some jumbled, narrative mess; that was the first time my early teenage mind probably saw an example of true style and craft, and recognized that there is a mind behind every great work of fiction, whether it is recognized by the majority of people or not, as a true work of meticulous art. Perhaps it's becomes nostalgic for me at this point though; I should read it again. |
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| chlola |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by floyd741
As much as I hate to say it, The Great Gastby made me feel uncomfortable. I had to read it for school and though I thought it was cool, the whole book just gave me this... desolate feeling. Like it was just a narrative devoid of any events or emotions or anything, it just felt so superficial that it was like... surreal. It was like an empty room with people walking through it at random times, then Gatsby dies and its over. Maybe it was just my mood because a friend of mine says he never felt that.
Besides that I've never read a book that has made me feel the slightest bit uncomfortable. |
Bahaha, well then you should read This Side of Paradise. I found it had that same feeling. Gatsby is one I can read over and over again, always maintaining hope that everything will work out. Sort of like when you can't find anything to eat in the fridge, yet you still keep checking back every 1/2 hour - as if new/different/more food is going to magically appear. :p |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
:haha:
30 mins is pretty generous. I find that it's necessary to survey every 15 minutes in order to collect the most diverse sample of results. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Well I didn't want to portray myself as some kind of junkie. :o |
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| Esiotrat |
How about any poetry ever written by Shakespeare?.. Honestly, he sounds like a high-schooler, except with incomprehensible Elizabethan-babble thrown in.
I suppose it's got to be read for the amazingly beautiful lines that occasionally spring out, although I find that most of his poetry is pretty turgid. Some of the lines just stick in your head forever, though. |
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| Lira |
Any book by Chico Xavier. Many people believe he did in fact hear the dead and whatnot but the nationalist and racist undertones of some of the works I read made me feel really really uneasy. Not because of the actual content, as I wouldn't mind his racism/nationalism if he were just a random writer, but because people actually believe he was a bridge between this world and "the other realm" and, for some reason, they tend to think the dead are much more honest and wise than the individuals around us.
Go figure. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
Suffer the slings and arrows of... blablabla, I looked off the rest of his soliloquy from a note resting firmly upon the top of my backpack. It meant nothing to me- thanks, American High School.
But I am grateful for the fact that Shakespeare has become practically second competence for generations previous to mine. I have siblings that I harbour scholarly ambitions in stead for, AND THEY WILL NOT DISAPPOINT ME IN THE SAME WAY THAT I DID. |
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| couch-potato |
| Redundant :o |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Hal, did you find some subordinate clauses in the back of your fridge last night that were about to go out of date? |
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