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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 21, 2014 - 09:41am PT
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Randisi, I hate to agree but yer right. I was also not taken with One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Maybe it hit too close to home.
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MH2
climber
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Jul 21, 2014 - 09:46am PT
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The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, made famous in 1961 by
The book was a big disappointment.
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Jul 21, 2014 - 09:46am PT
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It would take me a hundred years to finish that book.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 21, 2014 - 10:10am PT
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The Larry, try reading it out loud to yourself. That sometimes works.
Steppenwolf left me wondering why I'd bothered with it. I was fine with Siddhartha.
For those of us with silver hair now, During our adolescence in the past, we were delighted by the beautiful novel Siddhartha by Herman Hesse the great, a novel in Which He sang the praises of humanism, in the pursuit of Eastern mysticism. In short the work was a lyrical symphony. however it In my case, it always reminds me of his other excellent and unique book Which is Der Steppenwolf, a novel That still captivates me today. When I was 17 years old I read it for the first time, but I did not know how to decipher its contents. Now that I Have Decided to reread the book, I can identify identity With the more tormented and central character of the novel, the melancholic and misanthropic Harry Haller.
Der Steppenwolf is a book to be read not just once, but to be re-read and be reflected upon. The character is a creature That has Chosen solitude as an antidote against the masses and the mediocrity of life. Portrayed as He is not unsympathetic but rather antisocial. The character was happy During a point of time in his life, living a conventional life and in a marriage bourgeois. One day all that disappeared and I Began to enclose himself and it is when yo have discovered the abomination of the society in Which I was living. 've Realized In his solitude how easy it was to manipulate human beings. 've Realized That the Citizens of a nation prone to Employing Were Not Their devices in pursuit of a critical thinking against the powers that be. Clearly The book was a critique of the rise of Nazism.
The book by Herman Hesse is of an astonishing relevance to the current deplorable situation in Europe, where in its crude and selfish societies, soccer and trashy TV programming routine and vile occupy the lives of many. The thoughts of Harry Haller, the protagonist of the novel, is synthesized in annotations like the following. He Also Noted...
The foregoing was a translated Google critique from a Panamanian who obviously knows more than I.
I had a hard time with this book for some reason. It left me cold.
Siddhartha, no problemo.
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raymond phule
climber
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Jul 21, 2014 - 10:25am PT
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"Born to run" really disappointed me. I really cant understand why, in my opinion, such a bad book managed to be so popular.
I started to read "steppenwolf" some months ago but I didn't finish it...
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Jul 21, 2014 - 10:27am PT
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The Bible
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Jul 21, 2014 - 10:42am PT
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I thought this one was gonna be a winner but it was a bit pessimistic.
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Mike Friedrichs
Sport climber
City of Salt
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Jul 21, 2014 - 11:07am PT
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Naked lunch. Just couldn't somehow get through it.
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Braunini
Big Wall climber
cupertino
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Jul 21, 2014 - 11:11am PT
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RyanD beat me to it
Atlas shrugged
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Park Rat
Social climber
CA, UT,CT,FL
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Jul 21, 2014 - 11:11am PT
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The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Jul 21, 2014 - 11:14am PT
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Heart of Darkness
I actually though Apocalypse Now was a better story.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Jul 21, 2014 - 11:17am PT
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Overly voluminous and flabby, The Naked and the Dead. Written by a very young Norman Mailer in fifteen weeks and at the age of twenty-five (1948). It is 731 pages long. He thought the book "was possibly the greatest book written since War and Peace
Gore Vidal wrote,
My first reaction to The Naked and the Dead was: it’s a fake. A clever, talented, admirably executed fake. I have not changed my opinion of the book since… I do recall a fine description of men carrying a dying man down a mountain… Yet every time I got going in the narrative I would find myself stopped cold by a set of made-up, predictable characters taken not from life, but from the same novels all of us had read, and informed by a naïveté which was at its worst when Mailer went into his Time-Machine and wrote those passages which resemble nothing so much as smudged carbons of a Dos Passos work.[13]
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TwistedCrank
climber
Released into general population, Idaho
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Jul 21, 2014 - 11:18am PT
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All of them. Every last one of them. I haven't read a famous book that I ever thought was worth a crap.
Once it's famous, it ceases to be relevant.
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Jul 21, 2014 - 11:24am PT
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Dr F 's guide book socal bouldering guide!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jul 21, 2014 - 11:32am PT
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Something Happened by Joseph Heller. Catch 22 is a masterpiece of world literature, I've read it half a dozen times, getting something different from it each time.
So I looked forward to Something Happened. It was so depressingly dark and hopeless that I could never finish it. Tried three times, stopping at the same place each time.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jul 21, 2014 - 11:34am PT
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"The Book of Schmaltz".....there are only so many things you can do with chicken fat.
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couchmaster
climber
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Jul 21, 2014 - 11:40am PT
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The Great Gatsby. Anything by Hemmingway
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Jul 21, 2014 - 11:42am PT
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The Old Man and The Sea is a great book. I haven't read any of his other books.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jul 21, 2014 - 11:43am PT
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Atlas Shrugged was the most dissapointing, overhyped book of all Time!
I like steppenwolf, born to Run, 100 years of solitude and the naked lunch though, though the last two were, difficult reads....
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bergbryce
climber
East Bay, CA
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Jul 21, 2014 - 12:06pm PT
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2nd for naked lunch.
Schizos too long off their haldol make better beatnik poetry than that $hitpile.
Was born to run the book about barefoot running? It was fine.
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