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Post by aaahhh90 on Sept 10, 2021 8:34:41 GMT -5
It started a disgusting trend of adults robbing children of their entertainment by forcing their own preferences and skewed opinions on shit never meant for them. I was a child(6yo) when Harry Potter was first released. I never felt I was being robbed of my entertainment despite having a 21 year old cousin who was also a fan of the books. I was also close to being an adult(according to law) by the time the book series ended. A lot of us grew with it.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 10, 2021 10:16:36 GMT -5
The Fight Club movie is superior to the book as far as being a palatable experience, even if it misses a lot. I hate everything I have ever read by Dickens. I thought I was the only one! I HATE Dickens with a violent passion. Dickens sucks so much that he tricked me into thinking all classic literature before 1950 or so was unreadable, pompous, florid crap. I read Pride and Prejudice a few years back and was SO ANGRY because loads of these old books actually f***ing rule, but Dickens blows
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Sept 10, 2021 10:19:25 GMT -5
Birdsong was a 400-page Mills & Boon.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2021 11:14:14 GMT -5
Aww, I like Dickens . Him describing the prehistoric creature at the start of Bleak House is great.
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Post by koreycaskets on Sept 10, 2021 12:03:13 GMT -5
As an Atheist I think the Bible is as fantastically written book.
No religion discussion of course, just my opinion
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Post by pinja on Sept 10, 2021 12:27:06 GMT -5
As an Atheist ti think the Bible is as fantastically written book. No religion discussion of course, just my opinion Honestly, which bible is usually read in America? I never put any thought into it, but I'd think it's vastly different from a country that's pretty much all catholics and protestants.
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Post by koreycaskets on Sept 10, 2021 18:12:47 GMT -5
As an Atheist ti think the Bible is as fantastically written book. No religion discussion of course, just my opinion Honestly, which bible is usually read in America? I never put any thought into it, but I'd think it's vastly different from a country that's pretty much all catholics and protestants. I'm in Canada so USA part 2 lol . I've read the new and old Testament.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2021 19:14:43 GMT -5
Harry Potter/Hunger Games and the other YA successes (I include Manga and the resurgence of Marvel/DC in that) have done more for child literacy and fostering a love of reading than any teacher, parent or government and we are all the richer for it. I strongly believe reading keeps the brain sharp and seeing what has happened to certain demos/generations who only consumed stories via TV confirm my bias.
Back in my day we mainly had Tolkien and he certainly didn't know or care that his works would be marketed towards children decades later when he was writing them. Parts of The Hobbit are awfully pretentious for a YA audience.
A guilty pleasure of mine is airport novels, simple stuff you can read in a few hours cover to cover due to one dimensional characters and plot armor/holes, Jack Reacher is a particular favorite.
Frankenstein is the best of the classics that I read in school.
I like Shakespeares histories but his comedies and tragedies (Hamlet excepted) leave me cold.
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Post by Heart of fools gold on Sept 10, 2021 19:25:28 GMT -5
Harry Potter is meant for children. The fact that adults got so obsessed with it is one of the things that marked an undeniable downturn in our society by glorifying and normalizing not growing as a person beyond a middle school mindset. It started a disgusting trend of adults robbing children of their entertainment by forcing their own preferences and skewed opinions on shit never meant for them. Watching grown people line up at midnight outside of a bookstore to purchase a children's book for themselves was when I started giving up hope for this country. It's a physical representation of the willful lack of maturity and growth that has caused us to regress as a people. Take that above statement, and replace Harry Potter with Hunger Games or My Little Pony, and the point still stands.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Sept 11, 2021 3:27:49 GMT -5
The Fight Club movie is superior to the book as far as being a palatable experience, even if it misses a lot. I hate everything I have ever read by Dickens. I thought I was the only one! I HATE Dickens with a violent passion. I've never read any Dickens, but I'll always remember a fascinating essay about him and his works by George Orwell. Orwell described how Dickens's work was often held up by the very establishments he critiqued, saying Dickens attacked everyone, but antagonized no one.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 11, 2021 8:17:36 GMT -5
Aww, I like Dickens . Him describing the prehistoric creature at the start of Bleak House is great. I mean Almost everyone since the 19th century agrees with you That is kind of the idea of the thread!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2021 8:22:26 GMT -5
Aww, I like Dickens . Him describing the prehistoric creature at the start of Bleak House is great. I mean Almost everyone since the 19th century agrees with you That is kind of the idea of the thread! You hear a ton of people saying that they don't like him though.
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Post by nickcave on Sept 11, 2021 9:23:56 GMT -5
I don't enjoy Mark Twain
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Post by thechase on Sept 11, 2021 9:39:28 GMT -5
TNG made me dislike him even more
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Post by King Boo on Sept 11, 2021 10:00:28 GMT -5
I mean, I can read both Harry Potter and a dissertation on Henry VIII and the reformation. It's not a mutually exclusive thing.
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Post by James Fabiano on Sept 11, 2021 10:03:33 GMT -5
Catcher In The Rye is the drizzling shits & Holden Caulfield f***ing sucks. I get he is supposed to be suffering PTSD due to his dead brother but he is just an asshole. I think this is the popular opinion!
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Sept 11, 2021 10:04:42 GMT -5
Harry Potter is meant for children. The fact that adults got so obsessed with it is one of the things that marked an undeniable downturn in our society by glorifying and normalizing not growing as a person beyond a middle school mindset. It started a disgusting trend of adults robbing children of their entertainment by forcing their own preferences and skewed opinions on shit never meant for them. Watching grown people line up at midnight outside of a bookstore to purchase a children's book for themselves was when I started giving up hope for this country. It's a physical representation of the willful lack of maturity and growth that has caused us to regress as a people. Take that above statement, and replace Harry Potter with Hunger Games or My Little Pony, and the point still stands. There's a difference between unpopular opinions and being factually wrong.
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Post by pinja on Sept 11, 2021 11:27:56 GMT -5
Honestly, which bible is usually read in America? I never put any thought into it, but I'd think it's vastly different from a country that's pretty much all catholics and protestants. I'm in Canada so USA part 2 lol . I've read the new and old Testament. Canada is even more alien in that regard to me. But I meant the actual bible translation. After reading up I'd suppose it's mostly the King James Bible in all of North America - which I have no idea of. I have both a very plain Luther bible and a 20 lbs catholic "unity translation" (I guess) and they are so vastly different reading experiences. It must be a pretty great hobby just collecting as many different bibles as possible.
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Post by saneiac on Sept 11, 2021 12:31:45 GMT -5
I don't get the love for James Patterson. Reading a James Patterson book is like eating a big bag of potato chips for dinner. It takes up space, but it's all empty calories with no nutritional value, and 24 hours later none of it will still be with you.
I've read 2 of his books (both as airport pickups), and they are among the emptiest, most soulless things I've ever read. Yet, somehow, the dude is one of the world's highest paid authors and is now co-authoring books with Bill Clinton.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2021 12:39:15 GMT -5
I'm in Canada so USA part 2 lol . I've read the new and old Testament. Canada is even more alien in that regard to me. But I meant the actual bible translation. After reading up I'd suppose it's mostly the King James Bible in all of North America - which I have no idea of. I have both a very plain Luther bible and a 20 lbs catholic "unity translation" (I guess) and they are so vastly different reading experiences. It must be a pretty great hobby just collecting as many different bibles as possible. The King James Bible is very popular but more as a casual, church-going or house Bible. The Oxford Bible gets used frequently for scholarly study and the American Bible is pretty popular.
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