[ SECRET POST #389 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #389 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 09 pages, 222 secrets from Secret Submission Post #056.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 ] broken link, [ 1 2 3 4 ] not!secret, [ 1 ] too big, [ 1 2 (yes, twice) ] repeat.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Wednesday, January 30th, 2008.
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

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[(Anonymous)]

WORD. OMG, seriously. The classics fucking suck and I don't know why there's such a resurgence of them lately. Austin might have been a great writer for her time but jesus christ - some of the fantasy stuff out there now is SO much better than trying to matchmake fucking stuck up snobs who don't fucking care about anyone but themselves ANYWAY.

Sorry to those who LIKE the classics, but Dickens got paid by the word and it shows in his work by how LONG and boring and drawn out it is.

And yes, I'm an English major, I've read a shitload of classics and I still hate most of them. Don't get me started on Shakespeare either. >:D

Re: 56

[llamaramauk.livejournal.com]

Also an English major who doesn't like Dickens XD But I do actually love and reread loads of classics. However, they happily crowd the same bookshelves as sci-fi, comedy, philosophy, history, a variety of graphic novels, detective novels and fantasy. Good books is good books and I apply the same critical standards to all of 'em. *shrugs*

Re: 56

[dried-frog-pill.livejournal.com]

Good books is good books and I apply the same critical standards to all of 'em.

*clings* Looooove you. I don't like Dickens or Austen all that much, and I do love me a lot of fantasy novels, but I can't support just completely saying "Fuck all the classics! They all suck!" All classics =/= Dickens, Austen and Shakespeare. Gaaaaah it just drives me nuts how people are willing to write off something written a hundred or more years ago just because it's "old" and therefore boring :(

Re: 56

[llamaramauk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I like IVANHOE, but I wouldn't fancy it before breakfast XD

I generally dislike sweeping generalisations of literature. Heck, I've even read pulpy romance novels that were pretty damn good *shrugs*

Re: 56

[llamaramauk.livejournal.com]

It's AustEn, by the way.

Just sayin'.

Re: 56

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, I realized that three seconds after I hit "post comment" @_@

Re: 56

[(Anonymous)]

I think just reading this comment made my IQ drop by about ten points. :(

Re: 56

[queen-liah.livejournal.com]

You don't like Shakespeare? D:
That makes me sad.

Re: 56

[(Anonymous)]

I give him credit for writing what he wrote, but I've always been forced to read the same damn plays over and over and over again that it just made me begin to loathe the man. It's not really his fault - more just the system and it's repetitive nature.

Re: 56

[queen-liah.livejournal.com]

Ahh, fair enough. Systems can make anyone hate anything.

Re: 56

[(Anonymous)]

I used to think that way, too...

...when I was in, like, sixth grade. But then, you know, I grew up. I learned to appreciate the importance of a proper historical and cultural grounding. If he who controls the past controls the future, then how can anyone who slags off the past be expected to understand the present?

In conclusion: you don't have to LIKE the classics. But show some goddamn respect for your elders. When you don't, it makes you look like an ignorant reader. *rolls eyes*