What's up with the social "rule" that books are this intellectually superior form of entertainment. No one ever wants to seriously challenge it, because people are always afraid of sounding dumb. Fuck that!
The social rules are that if you don't enjoy reading novels, you're an idiot.
Most Novels typically bore me to tears, but everyone who has met and known would also consider me to be an intelligent person....at least most of the time, heh. There's also my entire academic experience backing that up, so it's not just a huge ego saying this.
Of all the garbage that's typically assigned in English/Lit classes, the only things that were interesting to me were Native Son, Slaughterhouse five, most of Shakespeare's work and stories of mythology. The Scarlett Letter: trash. To Kill a Mocking Bird: garbage. A tale of two cities: fuck the French. It's amazing to me how these novels are considered classics, and always assigned in 9th or 10th grade.
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What? You intelligent? Who the hell told you that??? And you believed them??? Wow. *stunned*
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There were a few books I love that are considered "classics" namely, The Count of Monte Cristo, Moby Dick, Treasure Island, and David Copperfield. You're right about trash novels though. They're no better than mindless TV. Good post!
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