Yes, two in one day, I have to do some catch up. This week’s Top 5 topic is Top 5 classics I’m not interested in reading.
As I say in the video–this list was hard to come up with! I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about books I’m not terribly interested in reading. If I have no interest in a book, I typically forget it right away. I’m funny that way??
In lieu of spending time formatting a post and hemming and hawing about this and that, I just turned on the camera, hit record, and blathered on a bit.
Let me know what you think!
peatlong
It’s funny. I’d have said the same thing, I don’t think about books I’m not interested in reading, and therefore putting together a list of classics I’m not interested in reading would be hard…
… but now I’ve watched yours, and it’s got me thinking, it’d be really hard to do this list as I can’t narrow it down to five!
Only one there I’m half-interested in is The Prince as research into a time and minset, but there’s too many other things I want to research anyway.
allysonyj
As a long-time contributor of comments, with an increasingly severe hearing disability, I don’t want to hear what you say, I want to see what you think.
HCNewton
That’s a good point. Something I need to account for.
wittysarcasticbookclub
I don’t know why, but the entirety of the video made me chuckle, especially your thoughts on Moby Dick.
HCNewton
Good! Was the intention!
Priscilla King
I like “Walden” though it’s not easy reading, or thinking. In college I remember thinking “But nobody can actually live like that!” Now I think “Actually I sort of do.”
The post about books I don’t plan to read, forthcoming this Wednesday, at my blog basically says I’ll wait to find most bestsellers on dime-a-dozen sales in aid of good causes–not that I never like reading them, just that I can save some money.
Classics? F. Scott Fitzgerald–skimmed and not understood in high school, no plans to revisit.
Anthony Trollope–too dry and wordy for me. Though Dickens and Thackeray do have some appeal as I grow older.
Hemingway–if his worldview didn’t help him survive his hard times, why should anyone else plod through it? Other writers have given examples of cutting back a story to a minimal number of perfect words, by now.
Walt Whitman–I’ve read enough of his “poems” to know I’ll probably never make the time to read the other ones.
D.H. Lawrence–Joyce did have insights that rewarded readers for putting up with the smut. I’ve never heard a credible claim that Lawrence did.
HCNewton
You make some good points about books you don’t plan to read has some really good points–particularly if you can be patient with bestsellers. If it’s one of my favorite authors, I can’t manage–but I occasionally pull it off for other wrters. (having trouble with my blogger password atm, so I’ll just hope you see this)
And you’ll get no argument from me on the rest of your list. 🙂