I found how
to be topp:
stupid, insane, badly spelt, really not funny, boring, ridiculous, brainless, deficient, dense, dim, doltish, dopey, dull, dumb, foolish, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, ill-advised, imbecilic, inane, indiscreet, insensate, irrelevant, laughable, ludicrous, meaningless, mindless, moronic, nonsensical, obtuse, pointless, puerile, rash, senseless, simpleminded, slow, sluggish, stolid, stupefied, thick, thick-headed, trivial, unintelligent, unthinking and moronic.
stupid, insane, badly spelt, really not funny, boring, ridiculous, brainless, deficient, dense, dim, doltish, dopey, dull, dumb, foolish, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, ill-advised, imbecilic, inane, indiscreet, insensate, irrelevant, laughable, ludicrous, meaningless, mindless, moronic, nonsensical, obtuse, pointless, puerile, rash, senseless, simpleminded, slow, sluggish, stolid, stupefied, thick, thick-headed, trivial, unintelligent, unthinking and moronic.
I must thank thesaurus.com for the majority of these words.
I HATE
THIS BOOK EVEN MORE THAN THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING, AUTHOR? WHY DID YOU MAKE ME READ THIS? DO NOT READ THIS BOOK IF YOU VALUE YOUR
LIFE!
Ok, taking deep breaths. Listen people: this book is terrible! It tries to
be funny but it isn’t. Curse It! The little rich brat telling the story cannot
spell. The bad spelling is supposed to be a joke but when he does it I just think “?” All Molesworth does is say weird stuff about his posh school for boys and
pretends he is a spaceman/cowboy/hero. What kind of a storyline is that? In order
to even understand this book I would have to be in the upper class 5
generations ago. Makes stupid jokes and has a horrible story line. For
pure stupidity and suckiness this book is cursed with
0/100.
0/100.
Hope you like the next one better, you need a good one to make up for it.
ReplyDeleteNot time wasted just a chance to appreciate good books more!! Good luck.
Jill (Georgia's Mum from drama)
This was one of my favourite books when I was about 11. Thing was though was I got the jokes. I'd shared similar experiences and it was set against a time when the only stories about boys boarding schools were stuff like Jennings and Billy Bunter. Girls boarding schools were represented by the likes of Malory Towers. In fact there were many generations of children that had grown up who were sold a fiction of boarding school which was highly romanticised, adventurous fun.
ReplyDeleteThe reason that Molesworth made me laugh was he was the antithesis of all that 'larking about'. Cynical, old before his time, a world weary commentator on his school, the System and the times he was living in and yet still a boy. Compleet with por speling and wishing to be a cowboy (which was popular in the 70s).
However, the character and books were of their time and I can understand why you don't find them funny. The world has moved on. This article is much better at explaining Public School fiction and thus the appeal of Molesworth to me.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/jan/04/public-school-fiction
I think once you understand the context you may understand why some people (admittedly not many and highly likely to be older, public school educated males) enjoyed Molesworth; the 'gorila of 3B'. And I'm sure one day in the future you'll re-read a book that made you laugh when you were a child but on re-reading it, will find yourself laughing in the memory of the original experience, rather than because it continues to be amusing.
Well done for reading it. It's better to have tried it and found out you don't like it, than not to have tried it at all.
Russell Allen