[ SECRET POST #2238 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2238 ⌋

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Comments

[silverau]

It's pretty common for people to pick the quick, easy read over the book that looks like something their high school English teacher would've made them do a presentation on. I don't get why people are jumping on OP.

Anyway, I don't dislike "classics" as a whole but I do relate to OP. I find it obnoxious when people nag me into reading Don Quixote and tell me I should drop whatever else I want to read in favor of that, because that book is "classic." Or when they ask me if I liked The Great Gatsby and I say no, saying "It must be because you don't understand it, because if you understood it you'd like it." Or when people say I can't have a fair opinion on any literature ever because I'm not a fan of Shakespeare. If OP has had enough experiences like this I could understand them being turned off by classics as a whole. 'xD

[(Anonymous)]

not OP

But I see you there. I had to abandon my sci fi book club because ALL they wanted to do was read classic books and it was cool at first because yay new books but when I wanted to try something different or modern it's all nagging and judging about how uneducated and poorly read I am, especially if I decide to forgo a meeting because the current book doesn't interest me (and I don't care if it's important to the development of sci fi. The summary is not interesting and I'm burnt out on reading older works. Can we pleeeeaaasseee try something else? Nope? okay i am out!)

I hate the implication that if you don't want to or didn't enjoy a book there's something wrong with you/your education/your reading habits

People like different things! THIS IS GOOD. Stop being, to take OP's words, a pretentious asshole over my leisure time! (directed at my sci fi book club which is the only one in the city argh)

[silverau]

Aww man that sounds miserable. I hope you find some less-douchey people to discuss sci-fi with someday.

[(Anonymous)]

"It must be because you don't understand it, because if you understood it you'd like it."

Oh, I hate that. Nothing even to do with the classics, I love a great many of them, but that idea. That if you've read it, of course you liked it, and if you didn't then obviously you didn't understand it. I mean, I understand Titus Andronicus perfectly, I just don't happen to like the parade of rape, murder, mutilation and cannibalism, okay? You can understand a thing and still not like it, you can like a thing and still not agree with it, and just because something might be objectively good doesn't mean it's pleasant or necessarily enjoyable.

It wouldn't (and didn't) turn me off an entire experience. It does make me inclined to want to hit people, though.

[(Anonymous)]

And this is said in relation to Gatsby, no less. I understood that that book needed to die and then go away and then die again. How's that for cliff's notes?