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Originally Posted by sabredog
It is a shame you find other members choice of what they consider a "classic" amusing. Surely a purely subjective choice to be made by those respondents? I may not necessarily agree but I never find such choices amusing as that would be disrespectful to those respondents choices.
It is interesting to see what respondents consider a "classic".
I consider "Mr Midshipman easy" by Captain Marryat (1836) as an important book too, but it is less of a classic to me than, say, Fellowship of the Ring".
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I think you are right - a book published tomorrow might be a classic immediately. To me, a classic is a book that transcends its time & place of publication, and repays rereading not merely in one's enjoyment, but in becoming a better book because the reader has grown.