P. J. Alling wrote:
I thought the punishment in question was being forced to read it. But
hey, that's just me. I originally put it down to a bad translation,
maybe it was a good translation...
Boris Liberman wrote:
Paul Stenquist wrote:
I hate Dickens. I find it unreadable. I had to read much of his work
in college, and it was a task. Remember, those works were serialized
in newspapers. Compiled into a single volume, they become rather fat
and lazy.
Paul
I agree... never liked him...
Well, being a native Russian speaker I was forced to read some of
Dostoyevsky at age of 15-16 - last years in school. Notably of course
the "Crime and Punishment"... Somehow I had mental repulsion of it...
Oh dear -- Boris, I LOVED Crime and Punishment - one of the very first
serious books I read when
I was just 19 years old.... but I wasn't Forced to read it... I was
presented it along with several other
marvelous works of lit by my first lover. Others included Madam Bovary,
The Catcher in The Rye,
Point Counterpoint, The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby - I was taking
a couple of night courses
at NOrthwestern U and working as a receptionist for a railroad company
in downtown Chicago -
I had stopped attending school full time becuase I had had
mono-nucleosis and full time schoo was too tough. The receptionist job
required me only to sit and greet people on the Corporate legal department
of this large company.... so I read a lot.
I think possibly 15-16 is a bit young for reading profundity. :)
ann
So Paul, I suppose we were through somewhat similar experience,
although ironically the involved languages and authors were quite
different.
Boris
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