Leora’s Comments (group member since Jan 24, 2013)

Leora’s comments from the Classics Without All the Class group.

I'm from Vancouver Island, Canada, currently living in Araçatuba, SP,Brazil.

Marley and Me was a book first, which everyone but me probably knew. I had heard a lot of buzz about the movie but didn't get to the cinema to see it. So, when I ran across the book I decided to read it instead. Bad idea. It's so poorly written I couldn't get past chapter 4.Later I tried to watch the movie, but much the dialogue was lifted directly from the horrible book, and I was so irritated by it that I had to quit.

there are a few of the plays I haven't read and/or seen performed. I guess what I am missing is the histories. any suggestions about where to start?

the hills.

as solemn as

The only one I've ever heard was in a book by (I think) Terry Pratchett: as funny as . . . a very funny thing.
Karu wrote: "LL Cool J

As funny as..."

I know of at least one English teacher who regularly assigns this book in grade 11. The kids respond well to it, as they are pretty sophisticated readers by that age. I applaud this teacher for giving kids something new and fresh to study, instead of the same old tired stuff.

I'm trying (again) to read The Pickwick Papers, Volume II, having given up on it twice before. It's the only Dickens that I would classify as a monster.

A Room with a View and Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster are great reads and both very short.

captain Corelli's Manicotti

Every Living Thing

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

Alessia wrote: "Running with the Demon then?"

you got it :)

Sue, is Glass in the big town City of Glass?

Running with the Devil is wrong

it is snow in summer?

I'm reposting these ones that are still unsovled:

Ambulating quickly with the evil entity

The proof of luminosity

Is the last one The Hunger Games?

Prince of Tides is right Sue.

The Proof of Luminosity

Karena wrote: "Leora wrote: "Karena, it it The Sound and the Fury?

See if you can decipher this phrasing that was used for the Portuguese translation of this title:
The Benefits of Being Invisible"

The Perks o..."
You got it Karena! Isn't that a sad translation? It loses so much without the idioms.


The Royal Personage of Oceanic Movements Impelled by Lunar Influence.

The Milled Pepper on the Candy Floss

Sue wrote: "OK a couple more -
1. Hard sweet from the town with 2 piers (1 a ruin)
2. Illicit loving finished
3. Employee in the Caribbean"

2. The End of the Affair?

Karena, it it The Sound and the Fury?

See if you can decipher this phrasing that was used for the Portuguese translation of this title:
The Benefits of Being Invisible