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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 ...
startled wine cuck abode
  01/11/26
now imagine the shitlib literature theyre reading in HS now ...
Apoplectic titillating scourge upon the earth keepsake machete
  01/11/26
This is an idiotic take. Literature is truly beautiful and a...
Abusive anal pistol friendly grandma
  01/11/26
I toss the literature boy! I toss it like rubbish!
Geriatric trailer park
  01/11/26
Subtle Ethan Frome bashing
exhilarant resort
  01/11/26
By any measure, I was probably in the 99th percentile of hig...
Sooty Zippy Garrison Weed Whacker
  01/11/26
The black literature was even worse
exhilarant resort
  01/11/26
Invisible man was pretty good IRC
Iridescent Razzmatazz Sound Barrier Blood Rage
  01/12/26
"I was probably in the 99th percentile of high school l...
gold mentally impaired laser beams station
  01/12/26
he sounds smart to me
Ocher masturbator kitty cat
  01/12/26
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Big umber cuckoldry
  01/12/26
It's bonkers how millions of high school kids are forced to ...
Sooty Zippy Garrison Weed Whacker
  01/11/26
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Chartreuse outnumbered preventive strike organic girlfriend
  01/11/26
Every American school child should be forced to slog their w...
Abusive anal pistol friendly grandma
  01/11/26
the classics are one of the few redeeming aspects of the mod...
Silver aphrodisiac wrinkle chad
  01/11/26
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puce twinkling uncleanness
  01/12/26
ok so what do the real scholars, who have spent time with la...
Big umber cuckoldry
  01/12/26
...
puce twinkling uncleanness
  01/12/26
that's all fine. i just think kids should be exposed to the...
Big umber cuckoldry
  01/12/26
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puce twinkling uncleanness
  01/12/26
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Big umber cuckoldry
  01/12/26
ok let's keep teaching them spanish so they can order diarrh...
Silver aphrodisiac wrinkle chad
  01/14/26
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puce twinkling uncleanness
  01/14/26
Latin and Greek are dumb and gay.
cobalt electric furnace
  01/12/26
the dense unintelligible prose is 180 because it lets them k...
vivacious light tanning salon french chef
  01/11/26
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talented menage toaster
  01/12/26
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brilliant pocket flask gunner
  01/12/26
I like this theory
Aquamarine glittery antidepressant drug
  01/12/26
(flunked matrix algebra)
Rebellious Bronze Temple Deer Antler
  01/12/26
"In 2010, a national U.S. Department of Education study...
diverse bawdyhouse multi-billionaire
  01/12/26
not flame they should teach descriptive statistics as an int...
Rebellious Bronze Temple Deer Antler
  01/12/26
I thought it was more like “this shit is gay and for p...
vivacious light tanning salon french chef
  01/14/26
The point is to give them all a reference point for having s...
Rebellious Bronze Temple Deer Antler
  01/11/26
Bro thats how you ended up pumo!
soul-stirring emerald mad-dog skullcap school
  01/11/26
It couldn't have anything to do with your intelligence.
carmine demanding stock car theater
  01/11/26
thread not going how OP expected? the western canon is 180,...
Big umber cuckoldry
  01/11/26
american authors yes, you gotta read non-american
Razzle site
  01/11/26
Retarded
Frisky elastic band
  01/11/26
Moby Dick is 97590402001710103710
lascivious mood ladyboy
  01/11/26
Real retarded sir
Aquamarine glittery antidepressant drug
  01/12/26
I don’t think “great literature” is synony...
vigorous marketing idea
  01/11/26
what books would you recommend instead ? id have paul val...
Chartreuse outnumbered preventive strike organic girlfriend
  01/11/26
Print capitalism has been a disaster for mankind
Rebellious Bronze Temple Deer Antler
  01/11/26
teachers should go before the school boards in open session...
Fishy telephone becky
  01/11/26
Should students be required to read (after purchasing at ful...
gold mentally impaired laser beams station
  01/12/26
why do you write this way?
Know-it-all mental disorder
  01/12/26
why do you write so much?
Fishy telephone becky
  01/12/26
I can't stand the way contemporary authors write - telegraph...
Lilac Exciting Jewess
  01/12/26
Since James Joyce and Sam Beckett, there hasn't been any Gre...
Dull beady-eyed stain turdskin
  01/12/26
Nabokov, Greene, Ishiguro, maybe McEwan. Do they reach Joyc...
Big umber cuckoldry
  01/12/26
Great Literature is defined as adding to the canon of the hu...
Dull beady-eyed stain turdskin
  01/14/26
Im gay
Soggy floppy meetinghouse
  01/12/26
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Chartreuse outnumbered preventive strike organic girlfriend
  01/12/26
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Soggy floppy meetinghouse
  01/12/26
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Iridescent Razzmatazz Sound Barrier Blood Rage
  01/13/26
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Soggy floppy meetinghouse
  01/13/26
You only think this because English-language "great lit...
concupiscible place of business brunch
  01/14/26
totally agree that a lot of great literature is exactly that...
Hilarious bateful love of her life market
  01/14/26
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puce twinkling uncleanness
  01/14/26


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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:15 PM
Author: startled wine cuck abode

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49581978)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:17 PM
Author: Apoplectic titillating scourge upon the earth keepsake machete

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49581980)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:26 PM
Author: Abusive anal pistol friendly grandma

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582002)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:39 PM
Author: Geriatric trailer park

I toss the literature boy! I toss it like rubbish!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582036)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:30 PM
Author: exhilarant resort

Subtle Ethan Frome bashing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582011)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:35 PM
Author: Sooty Zippy Garrison Weed Whacker

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582022)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:44 PM
Author: exhilarant resort

The black literature was even worse

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582047)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 5:41 PM
Author: Iridescent Razzmatazz Sound Barrier Blood Rage

Invisible man was pretty good IRC

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49584207)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:35 AM
Author: gold mentally impaired laser beams station

"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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582333)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 5:33 PM
Author: Ocher masturbator kitty cat

he sounds smart to me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49584177)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 7:44 PM
Author: Big umber cuckoldry



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49584673)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:30 PM
Author: Sooty Zippy Garrison Weed Whacker

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582013)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:36 PM
Author: Chartreuse outnumbered preventive strike organic girlfriend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582026)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:38 PM
Author: Abusive anal pistol friendly grandma

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582029)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:56 PM
Author: Silver aphrodisiac wrinkle chad

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582078)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:33 AM
Author: puce twinkling uncleanness



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582332)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 8:49 AM
Author: Big umber cuckoldry

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582710)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:22 AM
Author: puce twinkling uncleanness



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582749)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:02 AM
Author: Big umber cuckoldry

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582955)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:09 AM
Author: puce twinkling uncleanness



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582965)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 6:38 PM
Author: Big umber cuckoldry



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49584373)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:11 AM
Author: Silver aphrodisiac wrinkle chad

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49588267)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:59 AM
Author: puce twinkling uncleanness



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49588335)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:49 AM
Author: cobalt electric furnace

Latin and Greek are dumb and gay.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582347)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:16 PM
Author: vivacious light tanning salon 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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582245)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:55 AM
Author: talented menage toaster



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582348)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:56 AM
Author: brilliant pocket flask gunner



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582502)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 5:32 PM
Author: Aquamarine glittery antidepressant drug

I like this theory

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49584173)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 5:40 PM
Author: Rebellious Bronze Temple Deer Antler

(flunked matrix algebra)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49584204)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 6:43 PM
Author: diverse bawdyhouse multi-billionaire

"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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49584398)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 6:52 PM
Author: Rebellious Bronze Temple Deer Antler

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49584436)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:15 AM
Author: vivacious light tanning salon 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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49588273)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:25 PM
Author: Rebellious Bronze Temple Deer Antler

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582258)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:39 PM
Author: soul-stirring emerald mad-dog skullcap school

Bro thats how you ended up pumo!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582033)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:43 PM
Author: carmine demanding stock car theater

It couldn't have anything to do with your intelligence.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582042)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:48 PM
Author: Big umber cuckoldry

thread not going how OP expected? the western canon is 180, actually

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582054)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:49 PM
Author: Razzle site

american authors yes, you gotta read non-american

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582057)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:09 PM
Author: Frisky elastic band

Retarded

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582232)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:27 PM
Author: lascivious mood ladyboy

Moby Dick is 97590402001710103710

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582262)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 5:32 PM
Author: Aquamarine glittery antidepressant drug

Real retarded sir

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49584174)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:50 PM
Author: vigorous marketing idea

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582060)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:55 PM
Author: Chartreuse outnumbered preventive strike organic girlfriend

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582070)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:19 PM
Author: Rebellious Bronze Temple Deer Antler

Print capitalism has been a disaster for mankind

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582251)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:23 PM
Author: Fishy telephone becky

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582254)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:36 AM
Author: gold mentally impaired laser beams station

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582336)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 3:05 AM
Author: Know-it-all mental disorder

why do you write this way?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582508)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:59 PM
Author: Fishy telephone becky

why do you write so much?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49583325)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:30 AM
Author: Lilac Exciting Jewess

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582758)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:46 AM
Author: Dull beady-eyed stain turdskin

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582780)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 7:54 PM
Author: Big umber cuckoldry

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49584704)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:41 AM
Author: Dull beady-eyed stain turdskin

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49588311)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 10:56 AM
Author: Soggy floppy meetinghouse

Im gay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582940)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:19 AM
Author: Chartreuse outnumbered preventive strike organic girlfriend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49582991)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 1:02 PM
Author: Soggy floppy meetinghouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49583332)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 12:28 PM
Author: Iridescent Razzmatazz Sound Barrier Blood Rage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49586151)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 12:30 PM
Author: Soggy floppy meetinghouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49586161)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:47 AM
Author: concupiscible place of business brunch

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49588315)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:56 AM
Author: Hilarious bateful love of her life market

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49588326)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 9:09 AM
Author: puce twinkling uncleanness



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49588345)