[ SECRET POST #2954 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2954 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Phineas & Ferb]


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[Roger Delgado]


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(Dangan Ronpa)


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[All Time Low]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm on both sides of this divide.

I love high-concept literary fiction. I'm sick of being told that I've only pretended to read books I've actually read many times and loved, because "nobody can read that many books". Or that I read the classics only for bragging rights. Absolutely not. There's a reason a lot of these books are classics, and that's because they're fun to read.

On the other side, I absolutely hate pretentious writing. Like you say, ones that are devoid of anything that makes stories important, like interesting characters or a coherent plot, because it's all sacrificed for impressive prose. To me these writers just feel scared of showing real, everyday emotions in case people will laugh at them.

I love reading widely. I love reading trash.

The worst literary snobs I've met are ones who only read moderately. I don't know what it is, perhaps they're overwhelmed by the sheer number of books and so have to cut down their options by sneering at a large proportion of genres?

I wouldn't trust anyone's literary taste who doesn't read everything they can find: bonkbusters, old classics, literary fiction, populist shlock and all. There are some genres I avoid these days (war fiction, horror) because all the ones I tried turned out not to appeal. But at least I dipped my toe in.

A lot of "classics" were banned at some point in their history. I was surprised to discover this. It made me look at classic fiction in a whole new light and is the single most worthwhile thing I discovered in my one year studying literature at college.

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Banned Books Week is my favorite thing, my high school used to host it every year where they'd prominently display classics that were banned all over the library, with info cards listing the reasons why they were banned. :) I agree that it's awesome and really telling.

[(Anonymous)]

That is such a good idea! I would have loved it when I was a teenager.

Too often classic books seem like this huge dusty off-putting wall of old stuff when actually many of them are really rather scandalous, racy or funny.