I am so glad you said that. I abhor Dickens, but he's so well-liked by so many people that it seems hating him is the equivalent of declaring yourself to be a brainless teenager. And his books could have been so *good*, if only they'd been written by someone else. Take A Tale of Two Cities. There's revolutions and secret identities and angsty pasts and true love and evil villanesses and grave robbery and self-sacrificing heroics! And yet somehow, it's still boring and impossible to get through.
See, that's a lot more mythology that I know. I learned the basics of Greek/Roman when I was young, and recently I've been looking at a bit of the Norse stuff- if only because Neil Gaiman features it in so many of his books- but really, that's it. I'd like to know more. It's always interesting.
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Date: 2004-10-12 02:10 pm (UTC)I am so glad you said that. I abhor Dickens, but he's so well-liked by so many people that it seems hating him is the equivalent of declaring yourself to be a brainless teenager. And his books could have been so *good*, if only they'd been written by someone else. Take A Tale of Two Cities. There's revolutions and secret identities and angsty pasts and true love and evil villanesses and grave robbery and self-sacrificing heroics! And yet somehow, it's still boring and impossible to get through.
See, that's a lot more mythology that I know. I learned the basics of Greek/Roman when I was young, and recently I've been looking at a bit of the Norse stuff- if only because Neil Gaiman features it in so many of his books- but really, that's it. I'd like to know more. It's always interesting.