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Put my classics to read list in order please.
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Happy New Year to you too.
Me76
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Oi! Stop fighting on my thread!!!
I am reading the English and the list is there from 'the canon' that is decided by other people.
When I interviewed to get on my English degree I spoke about Stephen King and how he is a classic writer because his books will still be read in years to come and his writing is full of character and theme and imagery.
I got on the degree.
These classics are all there for a reason, whether you agree with it or not.
I am reading the English and the list is there from 'the canon' that is decided by other people.
When I interviewed to get on my English degree I spoke about Stephen King and how he is a classic writer because his books will still be read in years to come and his writing is full of character and theme and imagery.
I got on the degree.
These classics are all there for a reason, whether you agree with it or not.
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
I get Tess of the Durbervilles and Hound of the Baskervilles mixed up for some reason .
Stupidity.
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
- OT but someone asked me the other day what classics I'd read and I flipped. I mean, who defines "classic" and what does it mean if you haven't read them?
Harold Bloom.
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
Well, exactly.
Your problem being?
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
I don't have a problem. Where's that come from? But Harold Bloom is famously the self-appointed arbiter of The Western Canon.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
He's full of shit
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
To answer your question more fairly: The question was loaded with western privilege. The questioner assumed there was a canon we could share, and that if I failed to share it I had somehow failed, that we could no longer talk as equals. Which was challenging not least because he is much younger than me, and not western, but has read far more widely in the alleged canon than I have.
I can appreciate how that might be disconcerting - but surely it opens up an opportunity to discuss what the individual had read, and perhaps more importantly, why they had read in a particular way? What was their view of 'canon' - of 'oeuvre', and 'author'? Also, what is yours? It just opens up a space for dialogue - always a good thing.
Me76
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Right. I've decided to stick Don Quixote. It's taken me four weeks to get 53% through and I can't say I've enjoyed any of it. I e read two other books in two day because I was giving myself weekends off. Reading shouldn't be work, and even though I was trying to get my classics in. It can stick it's boring shit.
dessiato
🇪🇸 españa te quiero
Madam Bovary is a great read.
Catch 22 is OK.
Don't bother with Don Quixote. I've started it several times and have never finished it.
Of the others I'd only bother with the Dickens. Even then I'd put them late on the list. I did them at school and wasn't impressed then, and am still not.
Catch 22 is OK.
Don't bother with Don Quixote. I've started it several times and have never finished it.
Of the others I'd only bother with the Dickens. Even then I'd put them late on the list. I did them at school and wasn't impressed then, and am still not.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
I just don't get why people rate it, I mean there are books/films/music I personally don't like but I can see why they are rated, but with Don Quixote I just cannot see anything there.
Me76
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binka
!!!!!!!!!
It's been on my bookshelf marked at page 318 for about the last 8 years. At first I thought I was enjoying it but suddenly I never had any desire to return to it. I don't even remember much of what happened now. Something about windmills?
felixthecat
are we there yet?
I can't stand Jane Austen which is pretty much heresy where I'm from. I love ALL the Brontes though
From the original list I'd go with the Count of Monte Cristo first, then Moby Dick, two bloody brilliant books. David Copperfield next, then Farenheit 451.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles made me angry when I read it ( silly cow sums up my opinion of Tess) and I really don't fancy reading it again
stockwelljonny
Wait here I have gone to get help
Mobs Dick cos it's a great page turner then catch 22 for some humour
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Heh, in my very first undergraduate English seminar I got into a blazing row with another student over whether Stephen King's writing could be considered 'literary' (I was for, he against). He was a canonical snob and frankly a wanker.
Looking again at your list, I'd add Les Liaisons Dangereuse if you've not read it already.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Mad bloke thinks he's a knight, does something stupid and gets knocked down, rinse and repeat ad infinitum.
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