A classic is a book that is much praised and rarely read.*
*C'mon, admit it. You didn't read ALL the classics you were assigned in college. You faked your way thru some of them, didn't you?
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2 comments:
Aw, that's kinda sad. I'm old enough to say there really weren't Spark Notes and Internet resources readily available to us lowly students back in the early 80s, so yeah, I did read them. :)
Angie - LOL. I didn't use Spark Notes either, I'm just a good faker. I've never really enjoyed the "classics" all that much. That's why I focused on writing rather than lit. We had a real rousing discussion in Lit Crit about how the works in the "Literary Canon" made the list and why it's so hard to bump something off the list. For me a lot of the "classics" are just the same tired old books that get taught over and over and over because nobody has enough guts to teach anything else. I swear, if I have to read Beowulf, or Grapes of Wrath, or the Scarlet Letter again I'm going to puke! ;)
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