Can't do it.
You might have noticed my current read is Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice. Well no more! No matter how hard I try I cannot get into the book. Don't get me wrong, I'm shure it's great, but not my cup of tea. All in all the book's picture of the female mind makes me mildly nervous. Neither do I care about the intricate social tapestry of affluent brittish girls. I want BLOOD! I want SACRIFICE! I want pages dripping with TESTOSTERONE!
But now that I think about it, what's more like war than love? As Cherterton said: "Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline." And if you should happen to listen to popular music you might get the impression Love is combat oriented, akin to gurilla warfare.
However interesting that is, I still can't enjoy Pride and Prejudice, and I'm happy with that, I sleep better.
9 comments:
I can't blame you, it was the same for me with Jane Eyre.
Haha Dave you had me laughing pretty hard there. I have to admit, it was even hard for me to get through that book. All my fellow females in the world will probably shoot me now
Some books are like that for some people. I adore Pride and Prejudice and also Jane Eyre. However, try though I might, I've been unable to get through Catch-22, though it's supposedly this hilarious modern classic and one of my husband's favorites. (It's still on my list to read someday, though). I got through Moby Dick only through sheer stubbornness and I will never read it again.
Don't unfinished books seem to haunt you on their loney, miserable shelf of rejection?
Funny you've been struggling with this one. So have I. The only thing better than the cliff notes is a book by Peter Leithart called Miniatures and Morals.
...wherein he says real men love Jane Austen.
He gives a great Christian perspective on six of her books. Maybe six is all she wrote, I can't remember, but anyway...
She's not testosterone dripping enough for me either, but Leithart analyzes literature as good as any Christian scholar can. And his book is great for giving us guys at least some sort of appreciation.
Yes, six is all she wrote.
I don't need no perception. Sensitivity is for wimps.
Okay, so I couldn't make it through the book, and I do agree sensitivity is for wimps.
but...
I do actually enjoy the seventeen hundred hour bbc production of Pride and Prejudice.
And I'm not afraid to admit it.
Well, I guess I will give you that one, I like the Sound of Music.
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