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Ever wonder why 95% of "Great Literature" is utterly retarded and boring?
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:15 PM Author: bearded diverse theatre i still, from time to time, think about this, and resent my high school teachers for making me read those books (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49581978) |
Date: January 11th, 2026 9:17 PM Author: overrated pistol chapel now imagine the shitlib literature theyre reading in HS now
the stuff we read aint perfect, but imagine hs english now |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:26 PM Author: chestnut dopamine This is an idiotic take. Literature is truly beautiful and ascended at times. It’s not some trifle to be tossed away like a piece of rubbish. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582002) |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:39 PM Author: orchid partner I toss the literature boy! I toss it like rubbish! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582036) |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:30 PM Author: mind-boggling ruby forum pervert Subtle Ethan Frome bashing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582011) |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:35 PM Author: vermilion odious home By any measure, I was probably in the 99th percentile of high school literature readers.
The only thing I took away from Ethan Frome was "wtf - why would they try to kill themselves by sledding? how stupid are these people that they thought this would work?"
What was the point of the average kids being forced to read this shit?
Wouldn't a Michael Chricton book capture their attention 10x more and present dramatic themes and philosophy in a much more understandable way? |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:44 PM Author: mind-boggling ruby forum pervert The black literature was even worse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582047) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 5:41 PM Author: wonderful embarrassed to the bone senate idea he suggested Invisible man was pretty good IRC (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49584207) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:35 AM Author: pontificating legal warrant "I was probably in the 99th percentile of high school literature readers"
And I'm sure your grades (and subsequent academic success) reflected this reality. |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:30 PM Author: vermilion odious home It's bonkers how millions of high school kids are forced to read these books with story and themes unrecognizable to them with dense unintelliglbe prose. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582013) |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:36 PM Author: lake soul-stirring gaping (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582026) |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:38 PM Author: chestnut dopamine Every American school child should be forced to slog their way through Moby Dick in 9th grade. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582029) |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:56 PM Author: tan sandwich the classics are one of the few redeeming aspects of the modern american high school humanities curriculum. they should be reading this kind of material exclusively in addition to latin and greek. the problem is that they deviate from it.
their teachers surely fuck up the discourse but mere exposure is at least a lifeline to the few intellects worth salvaging. the remaining 99% are just in virtual daycare anyways. |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:33 AM Author: Stirring mauve water buffalo range (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582332) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 8:49 AM Author: Mint Confused Casino ok so what do the real scholars, who have spent time with latin and greek, say (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582710) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:22 AM Author: Stirring mauve water buffalo range (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582749) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:02 AM Author: Mint Confused Casino that's all fine. i just think kids should be exposed to the ideas found in these works in english translation (per non-woke translators) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582955) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:09 AM Author: Stirring mauve water buffalo range (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582965) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:11 AM Author: tan sandwich ok let's keep teaching them spanish so they can order diarrhea burritos from san antonio food trucks and communicate with their roofers. much more "practical." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49588267) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:59 AM Author: Stirring mauve water buffalo range (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49588335) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:49 AM Author: hyperactive sepia stage Latin and Greek are dumb and gay. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582347) |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:16 PM Author: Judgmental charcoal native scourge upon the earth the dense unintelligible prose is 180 because it lets them know how dumb they are. Losers should also be forced to take calculus. The education system is good at letting a person know how dumb they are if they don't disengage with it too early. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582245) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 5:32 PM Author: jade toaster I like this theory (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49584173) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 5:40 PM Author: Topaz appetizing doctorate (flunked matrix algebra) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49584204) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 6:43 PM Author: ultramarine goyim "In 2010, a national U.S. Department of Education study found that 80 percent of high school dropouts cited their inability to pass Algebra I as the primary reason for leaving school."
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1013968 |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 6:52 PM Author: Topaz appetizing doctorate not flame they should teach descriptive statistics as an introduction to algebra. But that would require math teachers to learn statistics, and that's illegal AFAICT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49584436) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:15 AM Author: Judgmental charcoal native scourge upon the earth I thought it was more like “this shit is gay and for pussies” 😎 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49588273) |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:25 PM Author: Topaz appetizing doctorate The point is to give them all a reference point for having some kind of cultural/national identity. You don't have to like any of it, you just have know the basic plot or how to pronounce the author's name. Mexicans love reading the classics so they can feel more European (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582258) |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:39 PM Author: Ruddy rehab Bro thats how you ended up pumo! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582033) |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:43 PM Author: Crusty trailer park cuckold It couldn't have anything to do with your intelligence. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582042) |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:48 PM Author: Mint Confused Casino thread not going how OP expected? the western canon is 180, actually (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582054) |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:49 PM Author: puce incel point american authors yes, you gotta read non-american (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582057) |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:09 PM Author: Maize Submissive Parlor International Law Enforcement Agency Retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582232) |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:27 PM Author: floppy bipolar private investor Moby Dick is 97590402001710103710 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582262) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 5:32 PM Author: jade toaster Real retarded sir (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49584174) |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:50 PM Author: passionate organic girlfriend I don’t think “great literature” is synonymous with most of the bullshit they made us read in hs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582060) |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:55 PM Author: lake soul-stirring gaping what books would you recommend instead ?
id have paul valery monsieur teste and the remains of the day |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:19 PM Author: Topaz appetizing doctorate Print capitalism has been a disaster for mankind (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582251) |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:23 PM Author: smoky lodge hominid teachers should go before the school boards in open session and tell them the books they are going to require for each class and why before every school year, perhaps before every semester |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:36 AM Author: pontificating legal warrant Should students be required to read (after purchasing at full price) The Art of the Deal? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582336) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 3:05 AM Author: Walnut titillating tattoo plaza why do you write this way? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582508) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:59 PM Author: smoky lodge hominid why do you write so much? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49583325) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:30 AM Author: concupiscible zippy dragon I can't stand the way contemporary authors write - telegraphic sentences with no interior identity, just "Jane did this, Joe did that, he said she said blah blah". every voice is the Same.
like why the fuck would I read something like that instead of just watching a tv show or something. |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:46 AM Author: Boyish twinkling azn knife Since James Joyce and Sam Beckett, there hasn't been any Great Literature. Just force feed Harry Potter books to the next generation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582780) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 7:54 PM Author: Mint Confused Casino Nabokov, Greene, Ishiguro, maybe McEwan. Do they reach Joyce, no, but they do meet other Great Literature
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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:41 AM Author: Boyish twinkling azn knife Great Literature is defined as adding to the canon of the human experience expressed through immortal words, words, words. I daresay no one living today would dare such a feat. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49588311) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:19 AM Author: lake soul-stirring gaping (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49582991) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 1:02 PM Author: plum bonkers place of business lay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49583332) |
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Date: January 13th, 2026 12:28 PM Author: wonderful embarrassed to the bone senate idea he suggested (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49586151) |
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Date: January 13th, 2026 12:30 PM Author: plum bonkers place of business lay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49586161) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:47 AM Author: Ivory Dead Stage Really Tough Guy You only think this because English-language "great literature", especially as conceived by American high school teachers, is full of shitty novels for women. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49588315) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:56 AM Author: supple irate macaca totally agree that a lot of great literature is exactly that. there is also the strand of rambling Dickens crap where he was basically paid by the word and it shows.
also agree with above that most of the themes of actually great novels are inaccessible to a teen brain who have only experienced struggles relating to horizontal (peer) or vertical (parents/teachers) relationships.
i had to read The Sound and the Fury which was completely fucking ridiculous in hindsight. if a kid can barely understand the structure of a novel it makes very little sense to read something that upends it. the first fourth is a retard POV who cannot tell time. class was such a slog with 99% of the class having no idea what was happening
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Date: January 14th, 2026 9:09 AM Author: Stirring mauve water buffalo range (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2),#49588345) |