Case (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
case) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fandomsecrets2013-02-17 03:55 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2013-02-17 03:55 pm
[ SECRET POST #2238 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2238 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
01.
__________________________________________________
02.
__________________________________________________
03.
__________________________________________________
04.
__________________________________________________
05.
__________________________________________________
06.
__________________________________________________
07. [posted twice]
__________________________________________________
08.
__________________________________________________
09.
__________________________________________________
10.
__________________________________________________
11.
__________________________________________________
12.
__________________________________________________
13.
__________________________________________________
14.
__________________________________________________
15.
__________________________________________________
16.
__________________________________________________
Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 097 secrets from Secret Submission Post #320.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
no subject
(Anonymous) 2013-02-18 02:32 am (UTC)(link)I'm currently reading the Mercy Thompson books. The next book on my list is a biography of Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was the socialist president of Egypt. Before starting Moon Called, I re-read Slaughterhouse Five. Before that, The Hunger Games trilogy. It is possible to read YA fiction, "easy" fiction, and the classics. Some are lighter reads than others - for example, Candide is hilarious and doesn't take itself even remotely seriously, without a whole lot of thought needed, despite its often dark themes. Same with books like Jane Eyre, plays like Macbeth, among others. If 1984 isn't an easy read, then I worry about your and the OP's intelligence level. It's fine to like light reads that don't challenge you much - I like those too, consistently! - but challenging yourself to reading something slightly more complicated is what helps you LEARN. Seriously, not talking War and Peace here.
ayrt
(Anonymous) 2013-02-18 03:12 am (UTC)(link)No-one has called them uncouth or uncultured (even my original paragraph didn't), but people are implying by saying the OP is not well read, or uneducated, or stupid for saying the think people WHO JUDGE THEM are pretentious assholes. YOU DO IT TOO, right here:
"If 1984 isn't an easy read, then I worry about your and the OP's intelligence level. It's fine to like light reads that don't challenge you much - I like those too, consistently! - but challenging yourself to reading something slightly more complicated is what helps you LEARN. Seriously, not talking War and Peace here."
There you go with it, claiming that if people don't read classical they only read books that are not challenging and don't want to learn. You're "worrying" over our intelligence levels (FUCK YOU) because some people don't want to read classics.
WHAT THE FUCK. The period of time the books you read (and/or their genre) does NOT determine someone's intelligence. What the fuck do you know about me except the top of my taste in books? That's enough for you decide I'm unintelligent and don't read challenging books?!
(what the fuck does challenging even mean. If I want to be fucking challenged I'll read poorly written scientific journals)
Unless you mean challenging as in forcing yourself to read something you're not interested in. Which isn't challenging, it's tedious and boring - which applies to any book ever if you're not interested in it. It could have been published last year and if I don't like it it will be a "challenge" to force myself through it.
I've no idea where you're getting 1984 from and I wouldn't know since I've not read it. I've no feelings for it one way or another. If someone gifts it to me I may read it, or a few pages of it, or donate it to the library. I don't expect it would be anymore challenging to read than any other book considering I am capable of reading.
Unless it's boring in which case I'm going to close it and get rid of it.
Re: ayrt
(Anonymous) 2013-02-18 05:11 am (UTC)(link)I tried to read 1984. It was really depressing and the protagonist and I got off to a bad start when he started fantasizing about ripping off a woman's chastity sash(?) and having sex with her. It's possible that I'm remembering that wrong -- it's been a while -- but that's what I took away from the book.
Re: ayrt
(Anonymous) 2013-02-18 06:43 am (UTC)(link)Well, if I ever read it it's going to be "challenging" in that I tend to avoid things where the POV character is fantasizing or experiencing such things.
Which means anon I replied to will probably leap for joy at me reading such a "challenge" and "learning" something from the book.
no subject
please tell me you have a career in academia. no one else wants you