wtf-classic author

[dick van cock]

Who's the classic author on the school / university curriculum that made you say :wtf:

... all of the above for me (with the notable exceptions of Shakespeare and Joyce)

 

[Jagger69]

The worst class I ever took was statistics. Ayeeeeeeee!!!!! What a pain in the ass!!!!!

Classic author I loved to hate.....gotta be Dickens. Just too tedious. Thank God for Cliff Notes!!!

 

[hos]

different: theodor fontane.

 

[dave_rhino]

I appreciate Shakespeare now, but I remember in school I hated that fucking bastard with a passion. I still think he is a bit overrated...

 

[Dootifull]

Faulkner for me. Sound and the Fury. yech.

 

[BlueBalls]

Shakespeare used to piss me off, although I like some of his stuff now.

 

[Jagger69]

Sorry DVC I replied before you got the poll up I guess and I thought you wrote classic author or the school / university curriculum.....

Need to get my eyes checked....

:dunno::helpme:

 

[hothannah]

The main author I remember at school is John Steinbeck.

Of Mice And Men
and
The Grapes of Wrath

Also the plays

Spring and Port Wine by Bill Naughton

and Hobsons Choice

are terribly dull and bring back horrible memories of a class full of idiots reading aloud in dulcit monotone.

 

[BlueBalls]

The main author I remember at school is John Steinbeck.

Of Mice And Men
and
The Grapes of Wrath

Yes we read him to. Along with a few Tennessee Williams plays, A Streetcar Named Desire et al.


I couldnt stand them whilst I was there.

 

[gunslingingbird]

Where's JD Sallinger in the poll? "Catcher In The Rye" left me thinking :wtf:

 

[BlueBalls]

Where's JD Sallinger in the poll? "Catcher In The Rye" left me thinking :wtf:

So you didnt want to shoot a Beatle after? Isnt that the message of the book :dunno:

 

[gunslingingbird]

So you didnt want to shoot a Beatle after? Isnt that the message of the book :dunno:

That's exactly why I was left thinking :wtf:. I didn't quite get what the message of the book was.

 

[dick van cock]

Where's JD Sallinger in the poll? "Catcher In The Rye" left me thinking :wtf:

... only 10 options...

Salinger, Kerouac, Virginia Woolf ... you name 'em!

:conehead:

 

[BlueBalls]

That's exactly why I was left thinking :wtf:. I didn't quite get what the message of the book was.

Its supposed to be about defiance but I just thought it was dull.

 

[titsrock]

Some of these writers are poets and poets aren't taught in American public schools anymore.

For me, on that list, I hated William Faulkner. I still hate him. THe worst American author is John Steinbeck..hands down.

The worst UK author is James Joyce. I read "Portrait of the Artist" and "Dubliners" and hated them both.

Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Daniel Defoe, Dickens, Bram Stoker, William Makepeace Thackeray...these are wtf?wtf?wtf?wtf?wtf?wtf?wtf?wtf?c "Classic" British authors...

"Catcher in the Rye" was great. "The Great Gatsby" was pretty good. Hemingway is pretty good too.

I didn't like Mark Twain at all. Paul Auster--isn't he too contemporary to be considered "Classic"?

 

[squallumz]

i always wondered how huckleberry fin made it as such a wonderful book. fucking stupid if u ask me.

 

[Torre82]

Shakespeare. Creator of dramedies. Bleh.

 

[D-rock]

He's not really on the curriculum but I remember reading stuff from Sigmund Freud. Talk about somebody that was overrated. I don't think he knew what he was talking about half the time and just made stuff up.

 

[Fresno]

I would have to say, none of them every made me say WTF.

 

[YMIHERE]

I had to read Ulysses by James Joyce. There were large parts of which I’ll swear did not make any sense and was incompressible. Why it's great literature I will never understand. It was like Karl Marx’s Das Kapital in that I am sure nobody ever reads it cover to cover including the authors.