You can't love all of the classics, but it's not like it's a genre of its own that you can dislike.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 23/01/2011 12:32:01 AM
Of the ones I've read...I don't think I actively liked any. And, here, there haven't exactly been amazing reviews rolling in on other people's challenge classics, they've been pretty bad. (yours included)...Why are these books classics?
My review of Paradise Lost was not wholly positive, to be sure, but there were parts that I loved, and the other parts were still good enough that I could see why the whole thing is such a big classic.
Certainly, sometimes people truly hate a book that is considered to be a classic, and have their doubts about that status. But it's not as if all "classics" belong together in some sort of genre which appeals to some people and not to others. "Classic" is merely a quality label, a term used for books from any genre that are considered very good. If you really hate a particular classic, then perhaps that's because you're not fond of the genre, or the subject, or the writing style; but it doesn't tell you anything about how you'd like other classics in other genres, on other subjects and with different writing styles.
So when people just feel a lack of interest in "the classics" in general, that's really a shame because while they doubtlessly have their reasons for that, having read some and disliked them, there are bound to be a good number of "the classics" that they would like, the trick is just to find the right ones to read.
A few thoughts on my Classic challenge book. Well, books, as it turns out.
22/01/2011 11:48:21 PM
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This month is just making me hate classics.
23/01/2011 12:06:08 AM
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Aw. That's a shame.
23/01/2011 12:21:10 AM
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Re: Aw. That's a shame.
23/01/2011 12:55:44 PM
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Hrm... a high fantasy classic...
23/01/2011 01:15:05 PM
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Yes.
23/01/2011 01:17:18 PM
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Dunsany is good. And Grimm, but
23/01/2011 01:25:40 PM
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There's really only one high fantasy classic, no? Or two, if you count the Silm separately. *NM*
23/01/2011 01:35:03 PM
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Perhaps Gormenghast?
23/01/2011 01:58:50 PM
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H. Rider Haggard.
23/01/2011 01:24:01 PM
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You can't love all of the classics, but it's not like it's a genre of its own that you can dislike.
23/01/2011 12:32:01 AM
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The Swiss Family Robinson is hardly a "classic", unless by "classic" you mean "old".
23/01/2011 06:55:30 AM
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A lot of "classics" need proper context to be appreciated
23/01/2011 12:22:44 PM
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Well said.
23/01/2011 12:46:35 PM
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Re: Well said.
24/01/2011 02:33:10 AM
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That reminds me I need to get back to the Mémoires of Marguerite de Valois.
24/01/2011 10:17:17 PM
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Very true
23/01/2011 01:04:56 PM
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Speaking of Dumas...
24/01/2011 02:45:02 AM
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ooooh
24/01/2011 08:51:46 AM
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The Molière movie is called... wait for it...
24/01/2011 10:21:48 PM
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oooh
24/01/2011 10:24:19 PM
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Re: oooh
24/01/2011 10:29:23 PM
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Re: oooh
25/01/2011 01:15:39 AM
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I really should watch that movie.
25/01/2011 09:43:35 PM
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Re: I really should watch that movie.
25/01/2011 11:15:10 PM
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Why not? We liked Le Déclin de l'Empire Américain and Les Invasions Barbares. *NM*
26/01/2011 06:45:26 PM
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Re: Why not? We liked Le Déclin de l'Empire Américain and Les Invasions Barbares.
27/01/2011 12:26:48 PM
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Re: A few thoughts on my Classic challenge book. Well, books, as it turns out.
23/01/2011 06:25:50 AM
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The big problem with Dracula is that it's an epistolary novel.
23/01/2011 06:58:25 AM
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Dracula is the book I hope to review (properly) today. I love it. So very much.
23/01/2011 10:08:34 AM
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The challenge is making me wish I hadn't already read Frankenstein
23/01/2011 07:38:49 AM
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Really?
23/01/2011 07:52:24 AM
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...
23/01/2011 09:08:03 AM
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Thank you. *NM*
23/01/2011 10:10:34 AM
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For, as usual, being my wonderful, divine self and bringing light to the world? *NM*
23/01/2011 10:12:30 AM
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Re: A few thoughts on my Classic challenge book. Well, books, as it turns out.
23/01/2011 08:53:01 AM
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I just read A Christmas Carol as well. It's very short, alright.
02/02/2011 08:46:16 PM
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