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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner
What really gets on my nerves is the attitude of "if you don't like this book, you are just too stupid to get it". Because the opinions of critics and scholars are absolute truths, and someone who doesn't agree with their tastes is defective, apparently.
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Not too stupid to get it, but maybe not well-read enough to do so. I already explained there are different layers in good literature that you won't grasp without any knowledge. This can be philophical ideas not entirely spread out but only hinted to or puns about other books, many things are possibly hidden in a seemingly dull book. The more you read the more you recognize.
And scholars and critics have read all those ancient texts we are to lazy to bother with. So for them getting these undercurrents is normal and perhaps they do assume anyone else will see it, too. But this is not claiming absolute truth it is maybe just a little lack of phantasy.
I am sure none of you has shunned the youth classics like Treasure Island or The Count of MonteChristo, but am bold enough to bet you loved them as a kid.
So why do you bash the other classics? Do you really think they can't be equally captivating?