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Ever wonder why 95% of "Great Literature" is utterly retarded and boring?

i still, from time to time, think about this, and resent my ...
motley sandwich factory reset button
  01/11/26
now imagine the shitlib literature theyre reading in HS now ...
obsidian liquid oxygen
  01/11/26
This is an idiotic take. Literature is truly beautiful and a...
Wild haunted graveyard
  01/11/26
I toss the literature boy! I toss it like rubbish!
Adventurous affirmative action
  01/11/26
Subtle Ethan Frome bashing
Out-of-control sienna goyim mood
  01/11/26
By any measure, I was probably in the 99th percentile of hig...
umber locale
  01/11/26
The black literature was even worse
Out-of-control sienna goyim mood
  01/11/26
Invisible man was pretty good IRC
purple self-centered lay
  01/12/26
"I was probably in the 99th percentile of high school l...
Big Wine Orchestra Pit
  01/12/26
he sounds smart to me
Curious beta place of business sweet tailpipe
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Peach office becky
  01/12/26
It's bonkers how millions of high school kids are forced to ...
umber locale
  01/11/26
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seedy lodge
  01/11/26
Every American school child should be forced to slog their w...
Wild haunted graveyard
  01/11/26
the classics are one of the few redeeming aspects of the mod...
white church blood rage
  01/11/26
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zombie-like dingle berry base
  01/12/26
ok so what do the real scholars, who have spent time with la...
Peach office becky
  01/12/26
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zombie-like dingle berry base
  01/12/26
that's all fine. i just think kids should be exposed to the...
Peach office becky
  01/12/26
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zombie-like dingle berry base
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Peach office becky
  01/12/26
ok let's keep teaching them spanish so they can order diarrh...
white church blood rage
  01/14/26
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zombie-like dingle berry base
  01/14/26
Latin and Greek are dumb and gay.
Thriller vengeful parlour toilet seat
  01/12/26
the dense unintelligible prose is 180 because it lets them k...
Maize national cuckoldry
  01/11/26
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adulterous twinkling uncleanness newt
  01/12/26
I like this theory
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  01/12/26
(flunked matrix algebra)
Mauve fantasy-prone senate
  01/12/26
"In 2010, a national U.S. Department of Education study...
Galvanic hunting ground jap
  01/12/26
not flame they should teach descriptive statistics as an int...
Mauve fantasy-prone senate
  01/12/26
I thought it was more like “this shit is gay and for p...
Maize national cuckoldry
  01/14/26
The point is to give them all a reference point for having s...
Mauve fantasy-prone senate
  01/11/26
Bro thats how you ended up pumo!
embarrassed to the bone tank jewess
  01/11/26
It couldn't have anything to do with your intelligence.
Electric new version cruise ship
  01/11/26
thread not going how OP expected? the western canon is 180,...
Peach office becky
  01/11/26
american authors yes, you gotta read non-american
Abusive messiness
  01/11/26
Retarded
Razzle glassy business firm
  01/11/26
Moby Dick is 97590402001710103710
Apoplectic den
  01/11/26
Real retarded sir
hairless stock car genital piercing
  01/12/26
I don’t think “great literature” is synony...
Crimson Dashing Bawdyhouse
  01/11/26
what books would you recommend instead ? id have paul val...
seedy lodge
  01/11/26
Print capitalism has been a disaster for mankind
Mauve fantasy-prone senate
  01/11/26
teachers should go before the school boards in open session...
Aquamarine Crusty Piazza National Security Agency
  01/11/26
Should students be required to read (after purchasing at ful...
Big Wine Orchestra Pit
  01/12/26
why do you write this way?
sadistic brilliant rigpig set
  01/12/26
why do you write so much?
Aquamarine Crusty Piazza National Security Agency
  01/12/26
I can't stand the way contemporary authors write - telegraph...
Exhilarant Crawly Native Really Tough Guy
  01/12/26
Since James Joyce and Sam Beckett, there hasn't been any Gre...
Coral spectacular legend round eye
  01/12/26
Nabokov, Greene, Ishiguro, maybe McEwan. Do they reach Joyc...
Peach office becky
  01/12/26
Great Literature is defined as adding to the canon of the hu...
Coral spectacular legend round eye
  01/14/26
Im gay
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seedy lodge
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free-loading flushed therapy
  01/13/26
You only think this because English-language "great lit...
multi-colored jew gaping
  01/14/26
totally agree that a lot of great literature is exactly that...
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:15 PM
Author: motley sandwich factory reset button

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)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:17 PM
Author: obsidian liquid oxygen

now imagine the shitlib literature theyre reading in HS now

the stuff we read aint perfect, but imagine hs english now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2).#49581980)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:26 PM
Author: Wild haunted graveyard

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: Adventurous affirmative action

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: Out-of-control sienna goyim mood

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: umber locale

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?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2).#49582022)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:44 PM
Author: Out-of-control sienna goyim mood

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: purple self-centered lay

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: Big Wine Orchestra Pit

"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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2).#49582333)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 5:33 PM
Author: Curious beta place of business sweet tailpipe

he sounds smart to me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2).#49584177)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 7:44 PM
Author: Peach office becky



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2).#49584673)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:30 PM
Author: umber locale

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: seedy lodge



(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: Wild haunted graveyard

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: white church blood rage

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2).#49582078)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:33 AM
Author: zombie-like dingle berry base



(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: Peach office becky

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: zombie-like dingle berry base



(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: Peach office becky

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: zombie-like dingle berry base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2).#49582965)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 6:38 PM
Author: Peach office becky



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2).#49584373)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:11 AM
Author: white church blood rage

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: zombie-like dingle berry base



(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: Thriller vengeful parlour toilet seat

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: Maize national cuckoldry

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 12:55 AM
Author: Anal elastic band



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2).#49582348)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:56 AM
Author: adulterous twinkling uncleanness newt



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2).#49582502)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 5:32 PM
Author: hairless stock car genital piercing

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: Mauve fantasy-prone senate

(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: Galvanic hunting ground jap

"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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2).#49584398)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 6:52 PM
Author: Mauve fantasy-prone senate

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: Maize national cuckoldry

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: Mauve fantasy-prone senate

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: embarrassed to the bone tank jewess

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: Electric new version cruise ship

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: Peach office becky

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: Abusive messiness

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: Razzle glassy business firm

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: Apoplectic den

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: hairless stock car genital piercing

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: Crimson Dashing Bawdyhouse

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: seedy lodge

what books would you recommend instead ?

id have paul valery monsieur teste and the remains of the day

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2).#49582070)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:19 PM
Author: Mauve fantasy-prone senate

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: Aquamarine Crusty Piazza National Security Agency

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2).#49582254)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:36 AM
Author: Big Wine Orchestra Pit

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: sadistic brilliant rigpig set

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: Aquamarine Crusty Piazza National Security Agency

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: Exhilarant Crawly Native Really Tough Guy

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2).#49582758)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:46 AM
Author: Coral spectacular legend round eye

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: Peach office becky

Nabokov, Greene, Ishiguro, maybe McEwan. Do they reach Joyce, no, but they do meet other Great Literature



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2).#49584704)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:41 AM
Author: Coral spectacular legend round eye

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 10:56 AM
Author: free-loading flushed therapy

Im gay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2).#49582940)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:19 AM
Author: seedy lodge



(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: free-loading flushed therapy



(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: purple self-centered lay



(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: free-loading flushed therapy



(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: multi-colored jew gaping

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: Razzmatazz gold dilemma

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



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2).#49588326)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 9:09 AM
Author: zombie-like dingle berry base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2).#49588345)