tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post4140234581296959322..comments2023-07-19T04:05:34.796-04:00Comments on Of Cabbages and Kings: Cheating Natty Bumppo and the Kit-Kat BarterAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10883854503294092142noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-270516156578111642008-09-19T05:54:00.000-04:002008-09-19T05:54:00.000-04:00Melanie- Oh, boy- Anna Karenina... talk about your...Melanie- Oh, boy- Anna Karenina... talk about your literary challenges! And no, don't worry, Melanie, we will not ask you to read Shakespeare...<BR/><BR/>Oh, but we do have this nice volume of "War and Peace" for you to enjoy... Here: get cracking. :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10883854503294092142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-77767418525254615632008-09-18T18:25:00.000-04:002008-09-18T18:25:00.000-04:00I didn't have to read "Last of the Mohicans", but ...I didn't have to read "Last of the Mohicans", but I did anyway. Don't remember a blessed thing about it.<BR/><BR/>"Tale of Two Cities" I slogged thru in high school and thought it was stupid. Read it a few years later and liked it ok.<BR/><BR/>There are only two books that come to mind that I've tried to read and ended up putting back on the library shelf unfinished. "Moby Dick" and "Anna Karenina". Er, did I spell that right? <BR/><BR/>And don't ever ask me to read Shakespeare!!! It's pointless, useless, and incomprehensible.Melaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08424489590437278846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-17857274310418220102008-09-18T12:08:00.000-04:002008-09-18T12:08:00.000-04:00Jay- Oh, if a character other than Heathcliff from...Jay- Oh, if a character other than Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights ever needed therapy, it would have been "Jude the Obscure"! I hear ya. That's Thomas Hardy's philosophy of "Character is fate" at work. :)<BR/><BR/>And, well, I like your spin on my lack of cheating. I have to say, I have never once considered it that way...<BR/><BR/>Suddenly I feel so-- liberated!! :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10883854503294092142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-38905820510602629062008-09-18T11:13:00.000-04:002008-09-18T11:13:00.000-04:00Count me in for another Moby Dick failure! Grim, ...Count me in for another Moby Dick failure! Grim, miserable excuse for a book, in my opinion.<BR/><BR/>I was lucky at school - the chosen book for 'O' level was The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy and I actually rather liked Thomas Hardy. I have most of them... have to say I never actually finished Jude the Obscure, I found that heavy going, and in the end I got tired of how hopeless the main characters were in taking charge of their own lives, and how bad they were at making decisions. But I guess that's got to be put in context.<BR/><BR/>I loved The Last of the Mohicans as a TV series. Haven't tried the book. But just as a FYI, I don't consider what you did to be cheating. It was getting someone to give you a very quick and very last-minute coaching job. YOU were the one who processed the information and wrote it down, huh? ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-65352908117485321622008-09-18T05:48:00.000-04:002008-09-18T05:48:00.000-04:00Meg- Oh, yes, Moby Dick ended up being one of thos...Meg- Oh, yes, Moby Dick ended up being one of those for so many kids, didn't it? My group had to read "The Bridge Over San Luis Rey" instead. And that Last of the Mohicans movie made me cry. It was certainly not the book I tried to read. :)<BR/><BR/>Shirley- A spit wad for a week? Good gad. Now there's class.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-88032564517419159052008-09-17T23:48:00.000-04:002008-09-17T23:48:00.000-04:00I did see The Count of Monte Cristo. Very good mo...I did see The Count of Monte Cristo. Very good movie. About the teacher I'm not too terribly upset her hairdo do look like someone's butt. She never washed it either. One of the kids in class threw a spit wad and it stayed in her hair all week. She was pretty sad to pay much attention to what she thought of me.Miss Shirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948305900722983328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-57808327571613020342008-09-17T22:22:00.000-04:002008-09-17T22:22:00.000-04:00I've tried Moby Dick and tried and tried.As for La...I've tried Moby Dick and tried and tried.<BR/><BR/>As for Last of the Mohicans, great love scene with Daniel Day Lewis in the movie.Meghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16253518897502046799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-72581809817772388432008-09-17T16:32:00.000-04:002008-09-17T16:32:00.000-04:00Unfinished- Ohmigod, me too too! (Actually, I don'...Unfinished- Ohmigod, me too too! (Actually, I don't think I remember reading Great Expectations, I just kinda had to say that.) :)<BR/><BR/>But it's good to have a friend-in-struggle with Last of the Mohicans. Maybe I'd like it now. But at the time, it was absolutely a crusher.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10883854503294092142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-45586867334583440042008-09-17T16:26:00.000-04:002008-09-17T16:26:00.000-04:00I feel like such a girl today: Me too! I also hate...I feel like such a girl today: Me too! <BR/><BR/>I also hated The Last of the Mohicans. Luckily, I didn't have to read it for class, but just tried to read it on my own, because it was one of those classic American novels that everyone is supposed to read. I can't say I recall a thing about it, but I remember I hated it. It was sooooo slooooooow....at least when I recently read Great Expectations, I had one a-ha moment that allowed me to get through the last 200 pages.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-73473537374718551192008-09-17T14:03:00.000-04:002008-09-17T14:03:00.000-04:00Greg- Heh-- Grandpa only worked on "Les Mis" if th...Greg- Heh-- Grandpa only worked on "Les Mis" if there were deer in the sewers and trout fishing along the Seine. :) <BR/><BR/>Grandpa was not a "Les Mis" kinda guy. He once got a French Dip sandwich, with beautiful rare roast beef, and made some comment about the cow still mooing. No, Grandpa might've been Natty Bumppo material, but not Jean ValJean. :)<BR/><BR/>I'll have to look up Arms and the Man, I'm not familiar with that one.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10883854503294092142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-68580529331164925762008-09-17T13:55:00.000-04:002008-09-17T13:55:00.000-04:00I seem to recall there was an entire chapter in Le...I seem to recall there was an entire chapter in <I>Les Miserables</I> about the Paris sewer system...but having seen the musical and knowing there were some critical scenes in the sewer coming up made the lengthy parenthetical break a little easier to get through. <BR/><BR/>Actually, <I>Les Mis</I> had a bunch of chapters like that...where you got all this background/technical info that was going to briefly figure into some future scene. I wonder if your grandpa helped write that...<BR/><BR/>I have to say, though, I still loved every unabridged word of that book.<BR/><BR/>I can't say the same about <I>Arms and the Man</I>.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14337889899066280559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-46161091350321710922008-09-17T12:31:00.000-04:002008-09-17T12:31:00.000-04:00Da Old Man- Oh gosh-- Russian nihilism... no wonde...Da Old Man- Oh gosh-- Russian nihilism... no wonder. Ah, when even the Cliff's Notes make you ache, that's pretty bad. You should have told them in tribute to the nihilistic approach in the book, you didn't believe in writing reviews. :)<BR/><BR/>Kirsten- Oh, yes, for everyone who loves Hemingway, there are we who are not so enthralled. I have been afeared to read larger Hemingway works after my Hemingway "Hills Like White Elephants" saturation in college. I should probably give it a go once, just to see if I've changed my mindset about it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10883854503294092142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-24075993430301889262008-09-17T12:22:00.000-04:002008-09-17T12:22:00.000-04:00I couldn't stand getting through, "The Old Man and...I couldn't stand getting through, "The Old Man and the Sea". But, then again, I couldn't get through much in my younger years!Kirstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648349804434938726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-11502937596267446912008-09-17T12:13:00.000-04:002008-09-17T12:13:00.000-04:00Fathers and Sons. Oy vey. It is a short book, but ...Fathers and Sons. Oy vey. It is a short book, but prety painful. Struggled through the first chapter or so, went right to the campus book store and bought the Cliff notes. <BR/>Even hated the Cliff notes.<BR/>Was able to put together a credible review of it, so aced it and the course.Da Old Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02529514518271981093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-50584962698504267322008-09-17T11:05:00.000-04:002008-09-17T11:05:00.000-04:00Sue- Not my favorite Dickens novel, either, really...Sue- Not my favorite Dickens novel, either, really, though I tend to like Dickens. I think it's interesting how these books-- love or hate 'em-- gain our emotional investment. <BR/><BR/>As a writer, it's sort of exciting thinking you can elicit such passion from readers-- even if they look back on your work years later as stressful and unreadable! :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10883854503294092142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-6306978291848671672008-09-17T11:02:00.000-04:002008-09-17T11:02:00.000-04:00A Tale of Two Cities... I tried...oh, how I tried....A Tale of Two Cities... I tried...oh, how I tried...but I gave up after finally being introduced to the second character in the book...all seven, ungodly, mind numbing pages of descriptive introduction. This was the only time in my scholastic life I broke down and bought the Cliff Notes. To this day I have no clue what that darn thing is about and I don't have the mental or emotional stamina to ever try to actually read it.<BR/><BR/>SueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-199742614094366852008-09-17T10:25:00.000-04:002008-09-17T10:25:00.000-04:00Papercages- Well, you get credit for the refreshin...Papercages- Well, you get credit for the refreshing self-awareness, anyway! :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10883854503294092142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-53415488397927388552008-09-17T10:23:00.000-04:002008-09-17T10:23:00.000-04:00No book comes to mind but I think I might be ralat...No book comes to mind but I think I might be ralated to your grandpa.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-67870562959163055752008-09-17T10:16:00.000-04:002008-09-17T10:16:00.000-04:00Shirley- "The Count" is one heckuva long book, too...Shirley- "The Count" is one heckuva long book, too! I read it as an adult, where I think I was better able to handle it than if I'd been a teen. <BR/><BR/>Don'tcha love it when you pretty much SENSE a teacher doesn't like you? <BR/><BR/>PS- If you haven't gotten to see it, "The Count of Monte Cristo," as a film with Guy Pearce and Jim Caviezel is really good.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10883854503294092142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-45947004356004794302008-09-17T10:13:00.000-04:002008-09-17T10:13:00.000-04:00The Count of Monte Cristo. Flunked the test but i...The Count of Monte Cristo. Flunked the test but it's one of my favorite books. I think the teacher had it in for me though. :) Seriously, the teacher didn't like me.Miss Shirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948305900722983328noreply@blogger.com