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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 ...
fragrant indigo state karate
  01/11/26
now imagine the shitlib literature theyre reading in HS now ...
deranged doobsian church building private investor
  01/11/26
This is an idiotic take. Literature is truly beautiful and a...
Rose house-broken locale
  01/11/26
I toss the literature boy! I toss it like rubbish!
blathering rehab mood
  01/11/26
Subtle Ethan Frome bashing
Self-absorbed Theater Stage
  01/11/26
By any measure, I was probably in the 99th percentile of hig...
boyish puppy friendly grandma
  01/11/26
The black literature was even worse
Self-absorbed Theater Stage
  01/11/26
Invisible man was pretty good IRC
Glittery drunken corner
  01/12/26
"I was probably in the 99th percentile of high school l...
concupiscible chrome fortuitous meteor
  01/12/26
he sounds smart to me
diverse talking institution dingle berry
  01/12/26
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razzle-dazzle greedy orchestra pit potus
  01/12/26
It's bonkers how millions of high school kids are forced to ...
boyish puppy friendly grandma
  01/11/26
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mahogany blood rage theatre
  01/11/26
Every American school child should be forced to slog their w...
Rose house-broken locale
  01/11/26
the classics are one of the few redeeming aspects of the mod...
racy antidepressant drug
  01/11/26
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Turquoise aphrodisiac laser beams menage
  01/12/26
ok so what do the real scholars, who have spent time with la...
razzle-dazzle greedy orchestra pit potus
  01/12/26
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Turquoise aphrodisiac laser beams menage
  01/12/26
that's all fine. i just think kids should be exposed to the...
razzle-dazzle greedy orchestra pit potus
  01/12/26
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Turquoise aphrodisiac laser beams menage
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razzle-dazzle greedy orchestra pit potus
  01/12/26
ok let's keep teaching them spanish so they can order diarrh...
racy antidepressant drug
  01/14/26
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Turquoise aphrodisiac laser beams menage
  01/14/26
Latin and Greek are dumb and gay.
180 magenta ceo stage
  01/12/26
the dense unintelligible prose is 180 because it lets them k...
Wonderful French Chef
  01/11/26
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Scarlet theater incel
  01/12/26
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jet-lagged round eye
  01/12/26
I like this theory
Nubile swollen internal respiration spot
  01/12/26
(flunked matrix algebra)
fear-inspiring azn
  01/12/26
"In 2010, a national U.S. Department of Education study...
metal school cafeteria
  01/12/26
not flame they should teach descriptive statistics as an int...
fear-inspiring azn
  01/12/26
I thought it was more like “this shit is gay and for p...
Wonderful French Chef
  01/14/26
The point is to give them all a reference point for having s...
fear-inspiring azn
  01/11/26
Bro thats how you ended up pumo!
maniacal carnelian clown indian lodge
  01/11/26
It couldn't have anything to do with your intelligence.
Mischievous kitty cat
  01/11/26
thread not going how OP expected? the western canon is 180,...
razzle-dazzle greedy orchestra pit potus
  01/11/26
american authors yes, you gotta read non-american
carmine vigorous love of her life
  01/11/26
Retarded
cocky deer antler hell
  01/11/26
Moby Dick is 97590402001710103710
beta curious dilemma
  01/11/26
Real retarded sir
Nubile swollen internal respiration spot
  01/12/26
I don’t think “great literature” is synony...
razzle elite community account
  01/11/26
what books would you recommend instead ? id have paul val...
mahogany blood rage theatre
  01/11/26
Print capitalism has been a disaster for mankind
fear-inspiring azn
  01/11/26
teachers should go before the school boards in open session...
Alcoholic hissy fit
  01/11/26
Should students be required to read (after purchasing at ful...
concupiscible chrome fortuitous meteor
  01/12/26
why do you write this way?
Grizzly international law enforcement agency school
  01/12/26
why do you write so much?
Alcoholic hissy fit
  01/12/26
I can't stand the way contemporary authors write - telegraph...
Bull headed charismatic gaping cuckold
  01/12/26
Since James Joyce and Sam Beckett, there hasn't been any Gre...
spectacular cream resort toilet seat
  01/12/26
Nabokov, Greene, Ishiguro, maybe McEwan. Do they reach Joyc...
razzle-dazzle greedy orchestra pit potus
  01/12/26
Great Literature is defined as adding to the canon of the hu...
spectacular cream resort toilet seat
  01/14/26
Im gay
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mahogany blood rage theatre
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Glittery drunken corner
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Orange autistic wagecucks
  01/13/26
You only think this because English-language "great lit...
geriatric locus corn cake
  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: fragrant indigo state karate

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: deranged doobsian church building private investor

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: Rose house-broken locale

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: blathering rehab mood

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: Self-absorbed Theater Stage

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: boyish puppy friendly grandma

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: Self-absorbed Theater Stage

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: Glittery drunken corner

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: concupiscible chrome fortuitous meteor

"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: diverse talking institution dingle berry

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: razzle-dazzle greedy orchestra pit potus



(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: boyish puppy friendly grandma

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: mahogany blood rage theatre



(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: Rose house-broken locale

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: racy antidepressant drug

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: Turquoise aphrodisiac laser beams menage



(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: razzle-dazzle greedy orchestra pit potus

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: Turquoise aphrodisiac laser beams menage



(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: razzle-dazzle greedy orchestra pit potus

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: Turquoise aphrodisiac laser beams menage



(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: razzle-dazzle greedy orchestra pit potus



(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: racy antidepressant drug

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: Turquoise aphrodisiac laser beams menage



(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: 180 magenta ceo 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: Wonderful French Chef

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: Scarlet theater incel



(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: jet-lagged round eye



(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: Nubile swollen internal respiration spot

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: fear-inspiring azn

(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: metal school cafeteria

"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: fear-inspiring azn

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: Wonderful French Chef

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: fear-inspiring azn

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: maniacal carnelian clown indian lodge

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: Mischievous kitty cat

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: razzle-dazzle greedy orchestra pit potus

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: carmine vigorous love of her life

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: cocky deer antler hell

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: beta curious dilemma

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: Nubile swollen internal respiration spot

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: razzle elite community account

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: mahogany blood rage theatre

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: fear-inspiring azn

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: Alcoholic hissy fit

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: concupiscible chrome fortuitous meteor

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: Grizzly international law enforcement agency school

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: Alcoholic hissy fit

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: Bull headed charismatic gaping cuckold

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: spectacular cream resort toilet seat

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: razzle-dazzle greedy orchestra pit potus

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: spectacular cream resort toilet seat

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: Orange autistic wagecucks

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: mahogany blood rage theatre



(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: Orange autistic wagecucks



(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: Glittery drunken corner



(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: Orange autistic wagecucks



(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: geriatric locus corn cake

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: Pea-brained Razzmatazz Lay Weed Whacker

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: Turquoise aphrodisiac laser beams menage



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