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• TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I disagree and offer Old Man and the Sea.

  I get it, there’s a bunch of symbolism and blah blah blah… I could sum the book up in a sentence and not miss much.

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  • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol you are missing a lot. You just don’t give a shit about what you are missing and that’s entirely fair to have that experience

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  • Einstein@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Grapes of Wrath. My class spent an hour and a half discussing a 2 page chapter about a turtle crossing a road…

    It was torture.

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    • aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That was roughly my experience with East of Eden.

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• CynicRaven@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Glass Menagerie. Introduction of sad, boring characters. Nothing happens. The end.

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  • AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Of Mice and Men: a book in a hurry to get from nowhere to nothing at all.

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• AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m talking about Touching Spirit Bear (a book that contains two chapters worth of graphic descriptions of a boy, having been mauled by a bear and barely staying alive, doing things like cramming a live mouse into his gullet to survive). I’m talking about The Jungle (a book my brain has blocked out most of which involves a lot of main character deaths, committing horrific sins just to survive and then not surviving anyway, and a general endless barrage of “so there’s this guy, right, and his life sucks. I mean, it sucks. His wife just died, he watched his coworker get chopped to bits, his boss is raping his sister and if he speaks up about it he’ll be fired and they’ll both starve, everybody has shunned him, oh his life might be looking up never mind he just got outed as a fraud, suffice it to say, his life SUCKS. Also communism is good.”) I’m talking about Fahrenheit 451. I’m talking about Lord of the Flies. I’m talking about books that make kids hate reading.

  Why can’t we read Discworld instead?

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  • atomicorange@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Those books are all fucking awesome.

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    • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My brain is having trouble with the idea that anyone could read any of the books I just listed and come away feeling anything othet than revulsion

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      • atomicorange@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Terry Pratchett is great and all, but don’t you have any interest in learning new things? The Jungle is essentially journalism, it exposed real shit that was happening in our own country… and being fed to us. It changed minds. It basically led to the creation of the food and drug administration. It saved lives. That’s a powerful work of art. Revulsion is the intended response. It’s kind of a horror novel.

        The other books you listed…. How about wonder? Hope? Fear? Fascination? Dread? Excitement? At least they make you feel something. Boredom is what kills love for reading in my experience. None of the books you listed are boring.

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