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⌈ Secret Post #2300 ⌋

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Comments

[quantumreality]

It's even worse when said classics-readers get all Judgey McJudgeypants on you if you haven't read them and have valid reasons why not.

[(Anonymous)]

What valid reasons are there, apart from "I'm too lazy and/or stupid"?

[(Anonymous)]

...I know you're trolling, but:

"I don't like this book. I like books with great dialogue and this is all descriptions of scenery and philosophical asides / I like this topic but the writing style is a turn-off / I don't like this topic at all. I will therefore spend my limited time reading something else."

Fuck you very much. :)

[(Anonymous)]

always a pleasure, tolkien-hating anon

[(Anonymous)]

There are lots of valid reasons not to read a book.

"I don't like the author's writing style."

"I don't have much spare time for reading, so I'm super-picky about what I read."

"I already have too many books on my reading list."

"My library doesn't have a copy."

"It just doesn't interest me."

[(Anonymous)]

"I don't want to"

"I'd much prefer to read (this other neverending list of books)"

[(Anonymous)]

"The book has been sullied by association with assholes who get all up my ass for not reading it"

[(Anonymous)]

seriously...just because a book is a classic doesn't mean someone has to read it. I like to read other things that interest me. That doesn't mean I', lazy or stupid it just means I have different interests. Is that not a valid reason?

[manifold]

To be honest, a good chunk of the time the classics end up being like That One Super Famous Well-Loved Fic In The Fandom That Everyone Recs. It's ~Known~ for being ~So Good~, so you know, you go and you give it a try. Usually it's decent. Sometimes it's every bit as awesome as you've been told it was.

And sometimes, you find yourself stopping 1/3 of the way in going, "what the fuck is this tripe."

Ironically, the more influential it was when new, the more likely it's going to feel "eh whatever", today because you've read it all before... being imitated after the fact.

[(Anonymous)]

I rather hate it when McJudgeypantsers start demanding "valid reasons" for why someone else hasn't read a book, in the first place.