Vandalshandle
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Oh, no, how can you say that? I've read The Count of Monte Cristo well over 20 times! Admittedly, that was because I could never understand it and I got mad about that (not having been taught there was someone called Napoleon who did this takeover and then the Hundred Days and all --- never does Dumas ever mention Napoleon by name (doesn't have to, everyone French knew! American girls in the 20th century? Not so much.). Still, it's got something. All those movies: it must have something.I read 100 years of solitude for school, and I didn't bother reading it much, just wrote what I had to write. So I went back to it last year, half way through I was like "stuff this" and stopped reading it. It's not that good.
The Count of Monte Cristo I felt was a very rubbish book too. The plot line isn't great, nothing about it is great.
Robin Hobb's books are so much better, and she doesn't get anywhere near. In her Farseer Trilogy she manages to subtly get the boy and wolf to resemble each other more and more over the course of the books and on into another trilogy, fantastic writing.
I started to read 100 years, boring, boring -- that "magical realism" stuff is just what you call normal fantasy if the writer lives in South America.
The Help? I do not do oh-the-poor-blacks books. Now they don't have maid jobs. Hope they're happy on welfare instead. I am so not interested. Do you all know that ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL book clubs persistently do all the oh-the-poor-blacks books one right after the other? They only have white women participants, of course. There are a bunch of them: The Help, The Secret Life of Bees, etc., etc. I say no, just no. It's racist against whites, really. They can do that on their own time.
WOW, Circe! can't even post on a literary thread without racist comments? Considered starting your own thread under Race?
Didn't look like a racist comment to me.
Ok, I am out voted. Blacks are happy on welfare now~~~~ (sigh)
Yes, sigh.... you're trying to turn this into what it isn't. Someone says they don't like a type of book and you have to make it political. Sigh.
Well, Frid, it is kind of hard to pretend that someone's stereotyping blacks into "Stephenfechit" , without drawing certain conclusions about their moral and ethical state of mind. Since the issue of "...feel sorry for blacks...": has been raised, I responded likewise, and not wanting to ruin my evening with racist poison, I sign off, knowing that such negativity is harmful to my inner peace.