I love books, me. That's one of the few things my parents did for me. Taught me to appreciate books.
Dickens, though, is fucking shit, as is Zola and the rest of the realist authors of the 19th century. Twenty pages to describe the setting and half a page to describe a year's worth of action.

There's a couple of authors I love, and always read what they release. Nothing Booker-worthy or anything. One's a chick lit type girl, and the others are thriller/mystery/adventure books.
Basically, if a book sleeve mentions 'centuries' old mystery' and 'change the face of the world', I'm there.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:43, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

exactly why Modernism was so important.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:44, Reply)

I had a couple of university modules on realist authors
Fucking horrendous. As if Dickens wasn't bad enough, try having to read Zola in French.

And don't get me started on Goethe.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:46, Reply)

Goethe was a cunt, that's for sure.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:49, Reply)

I dunno, "Somebody That I Used to Know" is alright

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 14:08, Reply)

As before- just because a movement is of critical importance to the form
Does nit mean it is in any way superior or more enjoyable.

Having said that, Beckett is fucking funny.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:50, Reply)

Calm down Clouseau.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:54, Reply)

I loved Beckett
and Ionesco. I did a module on Theatre of the Absurd in my final year. Bloody brilliant.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:57, Reply)

Oh Beth, don't have a go at Zola, he's fucking ace.
:(
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:47, Reply)

Don't tell me you're a Watford fan?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:49, Reply)

Fuck off AA, They are the scum.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:50, Reply)

Haha

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:50, Reply)

You seem like a nice chap, but you are wrong.
Germinal? Toss. Thérèse Raquin? No thank you.
The other extreme isn't much better. Ever read Flaubert?

Alain Robbe-Grillet, on the other hand, is bloody brilliant. Les Gommes is a wonderful dream-sequence of a book, where the character doesn't know who he is or whether he's real, or what else is real, and he's detective-ing.
As I rather pretentiously said in my A Level French oral exam, it's the antithesis of Cartesian philosphy.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:51, Reply)

Well, I'm just an engineer, not an arts student.
So I guess you must be right*

* not all right
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:14, Reply)