Discworld QOTD, from Soul Music
“In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”
“In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”
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Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures
"Ordinary laziness was merely the absence of effort. Victor had passed through there a long time ago, had gone straight through commonplace idleness and out on the far side. He put more effort into avoiding work than most people put into hard labour."
"Ordinary laziness was merely the absence of effort. Victor had passed through there a long time ago, had gone straight through commonplace idleness and out on the far side. He put more effort into avoiding work than most people put into hard labour."
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“The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.”
I gave it back to my English teacher and told him it made me feel ill every time I tried to read it
I didn’t care about Literature unless that Literature was also a good book
You can shove your Shakespeare up your arse. They should be reading Pratchett in schools.
Wyd Sisters has jokes in it like
"Is this a dagger I see before me?"
"Of course it's a bloody dagger."
You only need to know Shakespeare to understand that it's a reference to Shakespeare. An Easter egg if you will.
So, no good literature after Dickens?
But, they met Tiffany Aching, and she has had them jumping into mythology and many other interesting asides.
Reading is endless discovery. It's a shame to see the joy squidged out of it for kids
A lot of the assigned stuff, re-read when I was older, moved up to good book. But not that one.
I hated that book and everyone in it with the fire of a thousand suns
(A_Farewell_to_Arms, Catcher_in_the_Rye, and Ethan_Frome, for me -- all books my brain has blotted out all memory of except hatred)
Scarlet letter was dry and annoying.
I picked it up out of curiosity - I was in a track that MOSTLY had more interesting books. I *loved* Jane Austen. Hated Wuthering Heights.
1/2
2/2
The plot device I hate the most is when people just don’t speak up when they should
Remember thinking maybe-it-will-get-good-when-they-leave-town. Not so much.
It may be the most beige book I've ever read, if that makes sense.
I loathed Tale of Two Cities in comparison because I had no point of reference/empathy as a 80s kid
Like "Atlas Shrugged."
Also some classics that just didn't resonate with me, like Huck Finn. Something about the writing of those just was not compatible with my brain and I was miserable.
I didn’t really get it with Shakespeare until I actually saw it performed
if you’re gonna try, at least start with the fart jokes
I will say that it was the single most memorable lesson from the entire year, so it definitely worked in that respect.
On the plus side, watching a very nice production of Hamlet was immediately followed by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
Got stuck watching the Luhrmann “Romeo + Juliet” and boy oh boy did that adaptation piss my whole class off.
The 1968 version was better but we all thought Romeo spent too much time bare assed. 🤣🤣🤣
I've loved Shakespeare since at least middle school and even getting my theater degree it was a struggle to just read his work like literature
nonsense way to teach, unjustly popular approach
"But they won't understaaaaaaand it"
Any half-decent actor can get the gist of a line across. You don't have to understand every word, just the feeling behind it
I mean, that one's got a guy named Bottom who gets cursed to have a donkey's head - it's a pun *and* a butt joke.
But if not that, plays are meant to be *seen* not read.
People forget that in addition to the rich folks and nobility, these performances also had a whole *bunch* of poor, uneducated, easily bored folks in the audience, and they were closest to the stage.
Hamlet remains good shit tho
(If you don’t have the balls for either, Cyrano de Bergerac is a decent consolation prize)
We got stuck with "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
such a fucking relentless march of them that I'm STILL burned out.
Like.
Of Mice and Men
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Bluet Eye
1984
Death of a Salesman (FUCK)
back to back to back to back--