I remember trying to read one of the Artemis books. I got about ten pages into it before giving up, probably for the same reasons you don't like them, though I don't remember it at all now.
Oh, man, are you telling me. Whooff.
I sort of enjoy some 18th century fiction. Pamela, for example, is a laugh riot--although I'm pretty sure much of the hilarity is unintentional--and on a certain twisted level it's also kind of sweet. Humphrey Clinker is also fun and funny, and I've heard enough good things about Sterne to have Tristram Shandy fairly high up in my to-read pile. But I have to be in exactly the right mood for those kinds of books, or they become really irritating.
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Date: 2010-07-31 02:30 am (UTC)Oh, man, are you telling me. Whooff.
I sort of enjoy some 18th century fiction. Pamela, for example, is a laugh riot--although I'm pretty sure much of the hilarity is unintentional--and on a certain twisted level it's also kind of sweet. Humphrey Clinker is also fun and funny, and I've heard enough good things about Sterne to have Tristram Shandy fairly high up in my to-read pile. But I have to be in exactly the right mood for those kinds of books, or they become really irritating.