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Apr. 25th, 2005 09:05 pm( In the form of a meme. )
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kortirion
Killed some time today by visiting the Mayersche bookstore. Where I saw a collection of "the greatest literary works of our time".
In this collection, they had The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing.
I had to read this book in school. It features the brilliant sentence "He looked at her with his hostile-looking grin, that looked hostile." As far as I am concerned, any author beyond the level of 13-year-old Mary Sue-fanficcer should be whipped in public and forced to eat their own book for that sort of sentence. And the editor who obviously didn't notice it, too.
That book was a quarter of acceptable albeit not overly new story, a quarter of lukewarm prose, a quarter of cliché and a quarter of cheap effects. The best thing I can say about this book is that the fifth child was nick-named 'Hobbit'.
And this piece of crap is in a collection of "the greatest literary works of our time"?!
You make the baby Shakespeare cry.
My only solace is that this collection has been compiled by the BILD newspaper group. They probably just don't know better. (Or the translator practically re-wrote the book...)
Practice was fun. Sensei wasn't there due to having to give an interview, so Doris (NOT Lessing) held the practice. Now I don't like Doris much, but she's a good trainer. She had us do real basic stuff, which the advanced group, i.e. us, hadn't done for a long time, and which I enjoyed a lot. I'm afraid I'm not made for complex combinations, except in the form of kata.
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kortirionKilled some time today by visiting the Mayersche bookstore. Where I saw a collection of "the greatest literary works of our time".
In this collection, they had The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing.
I had to read this book in school. It features the brilliant sentence "He looked at her with his hostile-looking grin, that looked hostile." As far as I am concerned, any author beyond the level of 13-year-old Mary Sue-fanficcer should be whipped in public and forced to eat their own book for that sort of sentence. And the editor who obviously didn't notice it, too.
That book was a quarter of acceptable albeit not overly new story, a quarter of lukewarm prose, a quarter of cliché and a quarter of cheap effects. The best thing I can say about this book is that the fifth child was nick-named 'Hobbit'.
And this piece of crap is in a collection of "the greatest literary works of our time"?!
You make the baby Shakespeare cry.
My only solace is that this collection has been compiled by the BILD newspaper group. They probably just don't know better. (Or the translator practically re-wrote the book...)
Practice was fun. Sensei wasn't there due to having to give an interview, so Doris (NOT Lessing) held the practice. Now I don't like Doris much, but she's a good trainer. She had us do real basic stuff, which the advanced group, i.e. us, hadn't done for a long time, and which I enjoyed a lot. I'm afraid I'm not made for complex combinations, except in the form of kata.
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