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Ever wonder why 95% of "Great Literature" is utterly retarded and boring?
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:15 PM Author: Motley area 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) |
Date: January 11th, 2026 9:17 PM Author: Stimulating Twisted Parlour now imagine the shitlib literature theyre reading in HS now
the stuff we read aint perfect, but imagine hs english now |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:26 PM Author: Diverse buff bawdyhouse volcanic crater 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: Fragrant buck-toothed space 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: ivory address coldplay fan 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: Purple rebellious parlor 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? |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:44 PM Author: ivory address coldplay fan 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: dark national ratface 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: Sapphire brethren "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. |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 5:33 PM Author: maize property sound barrier 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: glittery wagecucks (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: Purple rebellious parlor 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: boyish marketing idea indirect expression (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: Diverse buff bawdyhouse volcanic crater 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: Iridescent mexican rehab 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. |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:33 AM Author: Canary Trip Field (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: glittery wagecucks 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: Canary Trip Field (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: glittery wagecucks 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: Canary Trip Field (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: glittery wagecucks (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: Iridescent mexican rehab 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: Canary Trip Field (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: Federal casino dragon 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: Lilac Odious Party Of The First Part 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: comical white center wrinkle (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: chest-beating sickened pocket flask (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: chartreuse vigorous juggernaut 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: Irate aquamarine place of business (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: multi-colored pea-brained piazza "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 |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 6:52 PM Author: Irate aquamarine place of business 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: Lilac Odious Party Of The First Part 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: Irate aquamarine place of business 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: pink contagious nursing home 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: blue thriller native fat ankles 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: glittery wagecucks 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: Marvelous Low-t Dysfunction 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: spectacular really tough guy windowlicker 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: Swashbuckling Stage Psychic 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: chartreuse vigorous juggernaut 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: excitant insecure ape 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: boyish marketing idea indirect expression what books would you recommend instead ?
id have paul valery monsieur teste and the remains of the day |
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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:19 PM Author: Irate aquamarine place of business 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: Greedy Dingle Berry 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 |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:36 AM Author: Sapphire brethren 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: puce masturbator 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: Greedy Dingle Berry 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: bat shit crazy tripping public bath 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. |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:46 AM Author: frisky chapel old irish cottage 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: glittery wagecucks Nabokov, Greene, Ishiguro, maybe McEwan. Do they reach Joyce, no, but they do meet other Great Literature
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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:41 AM Author: frisky chapel old irish cottage 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: bateful balding location coffee pot 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: boyish marketing idea indirect expression (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: bateful balding location coffee pot (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: dark national ratface (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: bateful balding location coffee pot (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: Saffron mind-boggling partner cuckoldry 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: brass soul-stirring menage 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
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Date: January 14th, 2026 9:09 AM Author: Canary Trip Field (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2)#49588345) |