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This is the place for posting weird things about classics. I have three that come to mind, so here goes.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Bronte's e has an umlaut) has absolutely no redeeming features except for Bronte's exceptional way with words. Read it for ten minutes and you come away depressed and angry. It makes me want to shout "We need a birthday party here! Disney princesses! Just once! One birthday party! PLEASE!!!" Honestly, it is the darkest book I have ever read.
Robin Hood aparantly has no respect for geography, as in some of the stories he can teleport across the whole of England in the space of a few hours.
After King Arthur's death, a knight who had been there when he died got depressed, wandered off into the woods, found a hermit, and promptly became a hermit himself. Then Sir Laneclot comes home from France, finds the king dead, becomes depressed, wanders off into the woods, finds the same hermit, and promptly becomes a hermit along with said hermit and aforementioned knight. As if this weren't enough, six other knights find the king dead, get depressed, wander off into the woods, find the same tiny house, and all become hermits, one after the other. Poof. For goodness sake, these myths need a little work in the realm of believable plotlines....
-EH
submitted by Emily H. :), age 14, Sparks, NV
(October 6, 2009 - 8:40 pm)
(October 6, 2009 - 8:40 pm)
Dracula and Phantom are obviously awesome. I'm halfway through Frankenstein, which is also pretty awesome, but not quite how I thought it would be. Little Women is *filled* with sues, but still a great book. I read Jane Eyre a while ago, but need to re-read it sometime, as I was 7 and understood about half of it.
Umm... that's all for now, so now an off-topic piece of random info: The Hunger Games is great! I'm reading it now for the 1st time so...yeah.
(October 13, 2009 - 9:09 pm)
I didn't much like Frankenstein. Alas, Babyon is a really good classic, but it does have some language. Fascinating view of what would have happened in the Cold War if America had gotten squashed into a nuclear pulp by Russia. Good characters, too.
-EH
(October 14, 2009 - 1:27 pm)