[ SECRET POST #1485 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1485 ⌋

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

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Comments

[roaringmay.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who enjoys some of the ~literary canon? Not all of it of course; Jane Austen is a pain in the ass (I love C. Brontë though, or even Dickens)... But most of what I come across i actually quite enjoyable :|

...Granted, I study this stuff so it's better I do care about it lol

[jeremiagoeswoah.livejournal.com]

This.
Dickens and the Brontë bore me to death but I read Austen and Tristram Shandy because they're fun. You can't like everything but there's a reason why those books are called classics.

[cold-river-blue.livejournal.com]

I find this funny because I adore Austen and find Dickens tedious as hell. I mean, I like the idea of Dickens, but just hate the style.

[roaringmay.livejournal.com]

LOL I hear that a lot. It's hilarious - one of my lecturers once told me to read as much Dickens as possible and try to write like him (it was a class on essay writing). That day I started fighting myself through all the Dickens I could find, and ever since then I actually like his style. :D

[aethre.livejournal.com]

I do (and I'm as far removed from studying literature as possible)! I've read some of those books before I realised that they had literary value. Books are books to me - I only care if whether or not they entertain me.

[tee-sama.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I enjoy literary canon, lol. Granted, I can't read Hemingway and most of naturalistic stuff (and Kafka makes me want to strangle someone), but most of what I read I love. I mean...you can always choose what you want to read, don't you? Doesn't change the fact that you should know something about all the classics, but you don't have to read them all.

I don't like Austen too. Don't like Brönte though, but I love Dickens.

[cold-river-blue.livejournal.com]

Doesn't change the fact that you should know something about all the classics, but you don't have to read them all.

I think this is the essence of the argument that all the pro-classics folks are trying to make. It's one thing to say "I don't like that." It's a whole different claim to say "I don't like that so it has no value and I don't need to understand it." The first is an opinion, and a perfectly valid opinion. The second is embracing ignorance for the sake of ignorance, and it makes my face sad.

[(Anonymous)]

It makes me sad, too. Reading broadly through a lot of the "classics" has taught me a lot about what I do enjoy in a book. I'll admit to not being a fan of Henry James or James Joyce, but I've read them, and can articulate why, and it sheds a lot of light on why I enjoy the sparser, cleaner prose of Hemingway or Graham Greene. It's an amazing thing to poke around in the Canon, read Tristram Shandy and suddenly understand Joyce better.

There's no shame in putting down a book you aren't enjoying, but there is something sad about not being willing to try something and broaden one's horizons. Not everything has to be Great Literature, but not everything has to be Harry Potter, either (and I freely admit to enjoying both).

[tee-sama.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's what I wanted to say.

I've read a lot of books I don't enjoy, but honestly I wouldn't be able to say whether or not I enjoy something without finishing it before. A lot of books I initially didn't like ended up buying me in the last few pages.

And the literary canon is very very big. There's something for everyone. Maybe not the one the OP's school teaches but if one just browses wikipedia they'd see a lot of book titles that are considered classics. And there is a lot of books that are considered classics that weren't written by british authors of 19th century.

Like you say, anon, people have different tastes. I don't like Hemingway but I love to read Joyce. That's the beauty of books. It speaks to different people differently and if people don't try they won't know.

[roaringmay.livejournal.com]

I agree.