I've been reading some Larry Correia lately, and while surfing his website looking for more info on the just released book (and the projected continuing books in his Monster Hunter series which is listed on Wikipedia) I cam across this post of his.
I think that maybe there's some Thermidor reaction gist to that post--maybe it goes a little too far into the opposite territory before swinging back to a balanced view. And yet, I find that I mostly agree with it too, and I've talked a bit about it as well. Literature sucks. Reading, on the other hand, is fun. I think it was Terry Pratchet who said--of one of his characters--that she hated Literature. She greatly preferred, instead, a good book.
http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/correia-on-the-classics/
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I mostly agree with him. And Pratchett.
I can name only two required reading "literature" books from High School that weren't as dull as watching paint dry; To Kill a Mockingbird and Alas, Babylon. I don't count Shakespeare because we didn't read them like books. We were assigned roles and had to read our lines from our desk everyday. Which was a lot of fun and bypassed the usual issues.
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