classic literature love stories
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Do you think less of a person if they hated your favorite book?
I’m the sort of person who enjoys books with mythical or dystopian themes. One of my friends is the sort of person who enjoys classic lit and romance. Her favorite author is Jane Austen and her favorite book is Sense and Sensibility. I told her that I had never read it. She couldn’t believe that I’ve never read it and insisted that I try it. I told her that I wasn’t interested in that type of story and she suddenly got defensive and started bashing me saying that I can’t appreciate classical literature. I’ve read Pride & Prejudice and found it tolerable, but it gave me enough sense to avoid that kind of book in the future. Many of the books I love are considered classics, but I know she’d never bother reading them.
Does it seriously bother you if someone hates or absolutely refuses to read your favorite book?
Terry Pratchett is one of my favorites. I did offer my friend Good Omens at one point. Once the word “Armageddon” left my mouth she quickly said, “no thanks.”
Not if they hate my favorite book. I might prod them a little and ask if they’ve even read it. If they say yes, they’ve read it and give a short, legit reason why they disliked it, fine.
But it does actually bother me when someone does not like my all time favorite film, which is a Spanish film. The reason I think less of them is because the people who did not like it literally watched the first two minutes and then realizing it had subtitles they turned it off and said it was a bad movie and they didn’t care for it. That bothers me.
Love Story – Beethoven
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The Samurai’s Garden $9.91 Tsukiyama’s classic story of love, sacrifice, and devotion. On the eve of World War II, a young Chinese man is sent to his famil |
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Heike Story $18.27 |
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The Mysteries Of Udolpho $8.5 This classic Gothic novel by the incomparable Ann Radcliffe tells the story of Emily, her lover, Valancourt, and the evil Count Montoni, whose castle Udolpho provides the setting. |
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Treasury of Classic French Love Short Stories in French and English $6.76 This book contains French love short stories in both French and English. |
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A Christmas Story $10.07 Jean Shepherd’s classic holiday stories are the basis of a beloved 1983 film. Here they are gathered into a collection that includes Ralphie Parker and his decoder ring, the bullies who challenge him to an epic snowball fight, and his hopeless lon… |
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A&E Literary Classics – The Romance Collection Megaset (DVD) $130.78 The cable channel A& E is widely known for its acclaimed adaptations of romantic literary classics. 8 of these films are include |
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A&E Literary Classics II – The Romance Collection (DVD) $66.1 Description not available. |
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Great Classic Love Stories (Compact Disc) $17.06 Description not available. |
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Lady of Conquest $7.59 The bestselling author of Nobody’s Darling shares a classic romantic epic of myth and history, the tale of a proud woman who loves and wars with equal fervor. Gelina O’Monahan stands against the mightiest warriors in ancient Ireland–until she los… |
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Evergreen $7.59 The towering modern classic of passion and ambition that forever changed the way we see the courageous immigrants who came to America’s shores — the story of Anna Friedman transfixes us with the turbulent emotions of a woman and her family to… |
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The Scarlet Letter (Paperback) $11.27 Hawthorne`s classic novel of guilt and redemption in pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts provides vivid insight into the social and religious forces that shaped early America. |
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Homemade Love $10.09 A classic collection of stories about African-American families. |
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Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady $9.45 A rakish city gentleman, the roguish Lovelace determines to seduce Clarissa, the virtuous, youngest daughter of the Harlowe household, in this eighteenth-century romance, in an abridged edition of the classic novel. Reprint. |
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The Man Who Invented Christmas (Hardcover) $14.22 An uplifting study of the story behind Dickens`s most beloved work, A Christmas Carol, describes how the author, at a low point in his career, self-published the holiday classic, revitalizing Dickens`s failing literary career and reviving the c… |
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The Shirley Letters $11.8 This beloved classic of California historical literature offers a vivid portrait of the exuberance and brutality of gold rush life from a woman`s perspective. |