Comments on: Opinions. We All Got ‘Em … http://carversdog.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/opinions-we-all-got-em/ Fiction and Musings From L.A.'s Most Far-Flung Suburb Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:11:04 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Rodger Jacobs http://carversdog.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/opinions-we-all-got-em/#comment-1022 Rodger Jacobs Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:57:04 +0000 http://carversdog.wordpress.com/?p=124#comment-1022 Exactly, Julie. After several decades of reading, these days if a book does not strike my fancy it's usually a result of something I can put my finger on: bad dialogue, a slow moving plot, a thesis that the writer fails to deliver on, always something that I can deconstruct intellectually, not emotionally. Exactly, Julie. After several decades of reading, these days if a book does not strike my fancy it’s usually a result of something I can put my finger on: bad dialogue, a slow moving plot, a thesis that the writer fails to deliver on, always something that I can deconstruct intellectually, not emotionally.

]]> By: Julie Scott http://carversdog.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/opinions-we-all-got-em/#comment-1020 Julie Scott Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:47:27 +0000 http://carversdog.wordpress.com/?p=124#comment-1020 I find "Don Quixote" loses quite a bit in translation. (A Spanish teacher who would obviously have rather been teaching literature required her 3rd year students to read it in the original Spanish.) It's likely unfairly reviewed by those who've only read it in English. The first line of "A Christmas Carol" is my favorite opening sentence of all time, but I had trouble slogging through most of his other works as well. Overall, I think far too many people mistake personal opinion for objective criticism. I find “Don Quixote” loses quite a bit in translation. (A Spanish teacher who would obviously have rather been teaching literature required her 3rd year students to read it in the original Spanish.) It’s likely unfairly reviewed by those who’ve only read it in English.

The first line of “A Christmas Carol” is my favorite opening sentence of all time, but I had trouble slogging through most of his other works as well.

Overall, I think far too many people mistake personal opinion for objective criticism.

]]> By: Rodger Jacobs http://carversdog.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/opinions-we-all-got-em/#comment-1013 Rodger Jacobs Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:05:13 +0000 http://carversdog.wordpress.com/?p=124#comment-1013 Oh God. I <i>loathe</i> DeSade, David. And who's that DeSade-worshipping contemporary who wrote "Dark Eros"? Him, too. Oh God. I loathe DeSade, David. And who’s that DeSade-worshipping contemporary who wrote “Dark Eros”? Him, too.

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