Sometimes books are good and people aren't clever enough to appreciate them.
Sometimes books are canonized and overrated and aren't all that good.
If you're unsure, you should ask me, a master of English, which is even better than a doctor of English because it shows I had the practical knowledge to know when to get out.
I don't think a book being boring really has anything to do with how good of a reader one is, more so that the content is just not engaging to the person.
Just like Marvel movies don't really engage with some people.
I don't think it's particularly controversial to suggest that some people read at different levels than others, even if they understand most of the same words.
That wasn't what you were suggesting though.
You suggested they found it boring because they weren't reading right/were big ol' dumbies.
Not just because the topic matter is boring to them, which, very well might be the case. One might not like Tolkien because he's long winded and pours over the minutia of details about the Elves. One might also not like Tolkien because they don't like orcs and elves and wizards either.
bowen on
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I think alot these classic authors would be better appreciated by kids in their shorter works
Short stories are easier to digest and you can take the time to actually teach some of the prose rather than slogging through a chapter a night
I think this is a reasonable idea.
Its why Poe works so well for High Schoolers
plus there's all the emo shit they love
hey Tell-Tale Heart is great
I always liked Poe when it wasn't a morality tail, and more open ended. A raven driving a person mad, someone being bricked up beneath a city. Some sort of weird Spanish Inquisition torture porn.
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I don't think a book being boring really has anything to do with how good of a reader one is, more so that the content is just not engaging to the person.
Just like Marvel movies don't really engage with some people.
I don't think it's particularly controversial to suggest that some people read at different levels than others, even if they understand most of the same words.
That wasn't what you were suggesting though.
You suggested they found it boring because they weren't reading right/were big ol' dumbies.
Not just because the topic matter is boring to them, which, very well might be the case. One might not like Tolkien because he's long winded and pours over the minutia of details about the Elves. One might also not like Tolkien because they don't like orcs and elves and wizards either.
I said 'sometimes'. I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that sometimes when someone says they found a book boring they were in fact not very good at reading it.
I am not disputing the existence of boring books, or people who understand completely a book and find themselves unmoved and uninterested despite that understanding.
I don't think a book being boring really has anything to do with how good of a reader one is, more so that the content is just not engaging to the person.
Just like Marvel movies don't really engage with some people.
I don't think it's particularly controversial to suggest that some people read at different levels than others, even if they understand most of the same words.
That wasn't what you were suggesting though.
You suggested they found it boring because they weren't reading right/were big ol' dumbies.
Not just because the topic matter is boring to them, which, very well might be the case. One might not like Tolkien because he's long winded and pours over the minutia of details about the Elves. One might also not like Tolkien because they don't like orcs and elves and wizards either.
I said 'sometimes'. I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that sometimes when someone says they found a book boring they were in fact not very good at reading it.
I am not disputing the existence of boring books, or people who understand completely a book and find themselves unmoved and uninterested despite that understanding.
I understand what you are saying.
But also War and Peace. Like if you read a summery of it, it's like that sounds amazing, there are plots and murder and machinations, and then when you start reading it, it's like how were you able to dry this into it's most boring components.
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I don't think a book being boring really has anything to do with how good of a reader one is, more so that the content is just not engaging to the person.
Just like Marvel movies don't really engage with some people.
I don't think it's particularly controversial to suggest that some people read at different levels than others, even if they understand most of the same words.
That wasn't what you were suggesting though.
You suggested they found it boring because they weren't reading right/were big ol' dumbies.
Not just because the topic matter is boring to them, which, very well might be the case. One might not like Tolkien because he's long winded and pours over the minutia of details about the Elves. One might also not like Tolkien because they don't like orcs and elves and wizards either.
I said 'sometimes'. I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that sometimes when someone says they found a book boring they were in fact not very good at reading it.
I am not disputing the existence of boring books, or people who understand completely a book and find themselves unmoved and uninterested despite that understanding.
I understand what you are saying.
But also War and Peace. Like if you read a summery of it, it's like that sounds amazing, there are plots and murder and machinations, and then when you start reading it, it's like how were you able to dry this into it's most boring components.
Are we sure Tolkien didn't write War and Peace under a pen name?
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Sometimes books are good and people aren't clever enough to appreciate them.
Sometimes books are canonized and overrated and aren't all that good.
If you're unsure, you should ask me, a master of English, which is even better than a doctor of English because it shows I had the practical knowledge to know when to get out.
hey Tell-Tale Heart is great
That wasn't what you were suggesting though.
You suggested they found it boring because they weren't reading right/were big ol' dumbies.
Not just because the topic matter is boring to them, which, very well might be the case. One might not like Tolkien because he's long winded and pours over the minutia of details about the Elves. One might also not like Tolkien because they don't like orcs and elves and wizards either.
more like Moby Dork
You're forgetting the running gag of people greeting the monster with well hello Frankenstein and him saying well no that's the scientist actually.
Here, in a spectacularly meta gag, is the guy who plays the monster in Penny Dreadful sorting someone out in the sitcom Count Arthur Strong.
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guy must have been v entertaining company
Nice
*high five*
I missed this part of the book
It's reassuringly depressing to realise that fringe intellectuals have been inspiring cult-like followings for decades, if not longer.
ahh, high school
Twain has the issue of potentially having been a pedophile.
I said 'sometimes'. I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that sometimes when someone says they found a book boring they were in fact not very good at reading it.
I am not disputing the existence of boring books, or people who understand completely a book and find themselves unmoved and uninterested despite that understanding.
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I've been in Henry James's house in Rye. It's lovely.
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"As the police marched the murderer out, the ghost muttered to himself 'That's what you get, bitch.'"
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Fuck Joe Manchin
I was introduced to Sherlock via The Speckled Band. Perhaps the longest of his shorties, but a shorty nevertheless
The Fountainhead: CRUSH THE POOR
“Listen, Eddie, I know this is, like, your whole shtick, but . . . you’re 47. That’s elderly for this era. You’re gonna be fine.”
But also War and Peace. Like if you read a summery of it, it's like that sounds amazing, there are plots and murder and machinations, and then when you start reading it, it's like how were you able to dry this into it's most boring components.
Nah, he's just like most of us.
"Look, just tell me when they develop the ability to put our brains into golems."
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Fuck Joe Manchin
Because it's boring?
Usually it is replaced by an anxious preoccupation with the horrors of old age.
We read it for book club and most of us hated Dr Frankenstein completely by the end
The book was fine tho
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I've only ever read one book by Dickens >.<
But I would never lie about what I read; that's like, pretty core.
Are we sure Tolkien didn't write War and Peace under a pen name?
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of another man’s brow? Or their blood? Or their bones crushed before them? Wait, where are you goin—
They go up.