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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 ...
vivacious parlor
  01/11/26
now imagine the shitlib literature theyre reading in HS now ...
Honey-headed trailer park
  01/11/26
This is an idiotic take. Literature is truly beautiful and a...
mahogany pisswyrm
  01/11/26
I toss the literature boy! I toss it like rubbish!
embarrassed to the bone bipolar sex offender liquid oxygen
  01/11/26
Subtle Ethan Frome bashing
Jet Charismatic Property New Version
  01/11/26
By any measure, I was probably in the 99th percentile of hig...
Bistre home hissy fit
  01/11/26
The black literature was even worse
Jet Charismatic Property New Version
  01/11/26
Invisible man was pretty good IRC
territorial lodge coffee pot
  01/12/26
"I was probably in the 99th percentile of high school l...
Aqua rigor stage
  01/12/26
he sounds smart to me
Excitant very tactful fortuitous meteor area
  01/12/26
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olive painfully honest regret
  01/12/26
It's bonkers how millions of high school kids are forced to ...
Bistre home hissy fit
  01/11/26
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Zippy kitchen therapy
  01/11/26
Every American school child should be forced to slog their w...
mahogany pisswyrm
  01/11/26
the classics are one of the few redeeming aspects of the mod...
Drab mexican
  01/11/26
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Pea-brained Disturbing Turdskin
  01/12/26
ok so what do the real scholars, who have spent time with la...
olive painfully honest regret
  01/12/26
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Pea-brained Disturbing Turdskin
  01/12/26
that's all fine. i just think kids should be exposed to the...
olive painfully honest regret
  01/12/26
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Pea-brained Disturbing Turdskin
  01/12/26
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olive painfully honest regret
  01/12/26
ok let's keep teaching them spanish so they can order diarrh...
Drab mexican
  01/14/26
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Pea-brained Disturbing Turdskin
  01/14/26
Latin and Greek are dumb and gay.
self-centered prole
  01/12/26
the dense unintelligible prose is 180 because it lets them k...
anal brilliant pistol
  01/11/26
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at-the-ready quadroon
  01/12/26
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translucent spectacular internal respiration codepig
  01/12/26
I like this theory
abusive hairraiser roommate
  01/12/26
(flunked matrix algebra)
Sooty Soul-stirring Stag Film Volcanic Crater
  01/12/26
"In 2010, a national U.S. Department of Education study...
swashbuckling useless brakes senate
  01/12/26
not flame they should teach descriptive statistics as an int...
Sooty Soul-stirring Stag Film Volcanic Crater
  01/12/26
I thought it was more like “this shit is gay and for p...
anal brilliant pistol
  01/14/26
The point is to give them all a reference point for having s...
Sooty Soul-stirring Stag Film Volcanic Crater
  01/11/26
Bro thats how you ended up pumo!
sick dun sound barrier
  01/11/26
It couldn't have anything to do with your intelligence.
Mentally impaired pearl location
  01/11/26
thread not going how OP expected? the western canon is 180,...
olive painfully honest regret
  01/11/26
american authors yes, you gotta read non-american
Diverse National
  01/11/26
Retarded
jade disrespectful factory reset button step-uncle's house
  01/11/26
Moby Dick is 97590402001710103710
splenetic elite community account center
  01/11/26
Real retarded sir
abusive hairraiser roommate
  01/12/26
I don’t think “great literature” is synony...
emerald rambunctious market
  01/11/26
what books would you recommend instead ? id have paul val...
Zippy kitchen therapy
  01/11/26
Print capitalism has been a disaster for mankind
Sooty Soul-stirring Stag Film Volcanic Crater
  01/11/26
teachers should go before the school boards in open session...
balding apoplectic bawdyhouse ceo
  01/11/26
Should students be required to read (after purchasing at ful...
Aqua rigor stage
  01/12/26
why do you write this way?
Comical opaque principal's office brethren
  01/12/26
why do you write so much?
balding apoplectic bawdyhouse ceo
  01/12/26
I can't stand the way contemporary authors write - telegraph...
massive transparent fat ankles trump supporter
  01/12/26
Since James Joyce and Sam Beckett, there hasn't been any Gre...
Dashing peach theatre
  01/12/26
Nabokov, Greene, Ishiguro, maybe McEwan. Do they reach Joyc...
olive painfully honest regret
  01/12/26
Great Literature is defined as adding to the canon of the hu...
Dashing peach theatre
  01/14/26
Im gay
Bat-shit-crazy Mauve Kitty Dog Poop
  01/12/26
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Zippy kitchen therapy
  01/12/26
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Bat-shit-crazy Mauve Kitty Dog Poop
  01/12/26
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territorial lodge coffee pot
  01/13/26
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Bat-shit-crazy Mauve Kitty Dog Poop
  01/13/26
You only think this because English-language "great lit...
swollen pearly clown becky
  01/14/26
totally agree that a lot of great literature is exactly that...
Confused stage faggot firefighter
  01/14/26
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Pea-brained Disturbing Turdskin
  01/14/26


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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:15 PM
Author: vivacious parlor

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: Honey-headed trailer park

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: mahogany pisswyrm

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: embarrassed to the bone bipolar sex offender liquid oxygen

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: Jet Charismatic Property New Version

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: Bistre home hissy fit

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: Jet Charismatic Property New Version

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: territorial lodge coffee pot

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: Aqua rigor stage

"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: Excitant very tactful fortuitous meteor area

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: olive painfully honest regret



(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: Bistre home hissy fit

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: Zippy kitchen therapy



(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: mahogany pisswyrm

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: Drab mexican

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: Pea-brained Disturbing Turdskin



(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: olive painfully honest regret

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: Pea-brained Disturbing Turdskin



(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: olive painfully honest regret

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: Pea-brained Disturbing Turdskin



(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: olive painfully honest regret



(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: Drab mexican

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: Pea-brained Disturbing Turdskin



(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: self-centered prole

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: anal brilliant pistol

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: at-the-ready quadroon



(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: translucent spectacular internal respiration codepig



(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: abusive hairraiser roommate

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: Sooty Soul-stirring Stag Film Volcanic Crater

(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: swashbuckling useless brakes senate

"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: Sooty Soul-stirring Stag Film Volcanic Crater

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: anal brilliant pistol

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: Sooty Soul-stirring Stag Film Volcanic Crater

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: sick dun sound barrier

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: Mentally impaired pearl location

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: olive painfully honest regret

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: Diverse National

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: jade disrespectful factory reset button step-uncle's house

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: splenetic elite community account center

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: abusive hairraiser roommate

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: emerald rambunctious market

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: Zippy kitchen therapy

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: Sooty Soul-stirring Stag Film Volcanic Crater

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: balding apoplectic bawdyhouse ceo

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: Aqua rigor stage

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: Comical opaque principal's office brethren

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: balding apoplectic bawdyhouse ceo

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: massive transparent fat ankles trump supporter

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: Dashing peach theatre

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: olive painfully honest regret

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: Dashing peach theatre

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: Bat-shit-crazy Mauve Kitty Dog Poop

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: Zippy kitchen therapy



(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: Bat-shit-crazy Mauve Kitty Dog Poop



(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: territorial lodge coffee pot



(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: Bat-shit-crazy Mauve Kitty Dog Poop



(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: swollen pearly clown becky

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: Confused stage faggot firefighter

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: Pea-brained Disturbing Turdskin



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