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[erastes]

KWESTIONS! (because omg - so bored...)

I was talking to <lj user="gehayi"> the other day about Library thing and how I love every single book I own and couldn't consider parting with any of them, even though they threaten to overtake the house at times, when i suddenly said "Except for Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography, that is - I've never been able to read past chapter 2 without falling asleep"

And amazingly she'd tried to read it too - and had the same reaction - exactly!

I said "It's better than any sleeping pill" and she had to agree. It's bloody ironic, though. He allegedly had this major exciting life, swords, duels bisexuality and I'm going - "blah blah who cares"... Perhaps it gets better after chapter 2....

So - what's the most boring book you either own, or have ever read?

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[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In college, I wanted to take a class in Irish Lit, but I avoided it for fear of being made to read Joyce again. Gah!

Also, Mark Twain's Old Times on the Mississippi made me want to pull my brain out of my head in seventh grade. And I generally like Twain. O_O

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I am firmly of the belief that Joyce was taking the piss and the literati fell for it.

*G*

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Could be. I hear Dubliners is quite good, but I'm still traumatized over Portrait.