[ SECRET POST #2238 ]

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[(Anonymous)]

You don't like ANY classics? But ... the classics aren't a particular genre like fantasy or sci-fi or crime novels. Hell, some of them ARE fantasy or sci-fi or crime novels or romances or whatever. I don't know anyone who loves every classic they have read. But I also don't believe that among all those thousands of very different books that are considered classics by various instances, you wouldn't like anything at all. It just seems like a really stupid reason not to read something. Don't read books because the subject doesn't interest you or because you don't like the writing, not because someone considers them a classic.

[(Anonymous)]

'Ew old books.' Basically. I guess.

[(Anonymous)]

then they deserve to be judged and I am perfectly fine with doing the judging. They are an idiot.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with this, basically.

And also, a lot of classics are really good, and there's nothing wrong with the idea that books can be good, even books that are complex and difficult and long and old and sometimes even a little dull. I think, too often, there's a tendency for people to denigrate the classics & to go too far in the other direction & say that the classics are too old and boring & to wind up with a view of books that's almost too simplistic and limited. So, I guess, I want to say that it's fine not to like classics but the classics are still good, and more than that, there's a massive variety of ways in which books can be good that I really want to embrace and defend, and just because classics aren't good in a way that you enjoy, that doesn't mean that the way in which classics are good isn't a valid way to be good, if you follow my logic.

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Am I the only one who thinks that OP probably just prefers to read things in a modern form of writing? As one of the things classics have in common, aside from being old, is that they're written in the 'voice' from X years ago. OP might just not like reading prose styled like that.

Especially since they've got a photo of all kinds of old books crossing genres.

So Op's "I don't like it" is a very good reason to not want to read it. Actually, any reason someone has for not wanting to read something is a good reason because the basis is they don't want to and they shouldn't have to read something because everyone goes "your reason for not wanting to read it isn't good enough".

so, yeah, older books are not OP's thing and that's ok.

[(Anonymous)]

This was what I assumed. Some people just don't find older literature as accessible as that written today, or they don't enjoy digging through slang or cultural connotations that don't immediately make sense to the modern reader. I've been put off from enjoying plenty of books because they just didn't have that accessibility, and at the time I didn't have any desire to try to situate the work in its appropriate context.

I am not sorry I gave up on "Pride and Prejudice" to read Harry Potter, y'all.