tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22922478.post6574963509026897821..comments2024-03-23T09:28:00.454+00:00Comments on Random Distractions: Blog a Classicmonixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16631194815411019266noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22922478.post-58878531541459289022008-08-17T11:00:00.000+01:002008-08-17T11:00:00.000+01:00By the way, isn't Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis and L...By the way, isn't Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis and Lord Jim by Conrad?LadyLuzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01425624818859182752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22922478.post-83184195745642561672008-08-13T10:34:00.000+01:002008-08-13T10:34:00.000+01:00We're agreed on Moliere then, D. I haven't come ac...We're agreed on Moliere then, D. I haven't come across 'The Rover' but I'll take your word and put it on the banned list for our desert island. I read 'Lucky Jim', 'Heart of Darkness' and 'The Secret Agent' and enjoyed them all, so I think I had a fortunate introduction to Conrad.monixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16631194815411019266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22922478.post-26418430928294714512008-08-13T10:15:00.000+01:002008-08-13T10:15:00.000+01:00As you've already cited Monsieur M I won't add Tar...As you've already cited Monsieur M I won't add Tartuffe, which I plodded through for French A-level and of which I enjoyed not a line. (Well, I suppose I just have added it . . .)<BR/><BR/>However, the book that really required me to prop open my eyelids with matchsticks, was Joseph Conrad's The Rover, which blighted O-level English Literature for me. Even now, 45 years later, I only have to hear the words Escampobar Farm and the memory comes back to haunt me. Thankfully, these are words that rarely crop up in polite conversation. I loathed The Rover with a passion. I don't think I ever did finish it and it put me off Conrad for life. Groaned inwardly, therefore, when I discovered that Heart of Darkness was a set book for one of my Eng Lit degree options - I gave it a miss, I'm afraid. I put my long unread copy on ReadItSwapIt and Greenmetropolis a year ago - seems that nobody else wants to read it either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com