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Originally Posted by bZkindle
You're entitled to your own taste.
That however, does not make a classic any less of a classic.
I have my own taste and there are plenty of classics that I don't like but I still recognize them as classics and see their literary value.
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Hmm, well in that post you quoted, I wasn't actually referring to the "classics" or contesting their status as "classics" (which brings us back to the issue of what is a classic and whether all classics are intellectually stimulating, etc.). There was another poster who made a good point that "classics" isn't necessarily a genre. The question of what we mean when we even say "classic" literature is an interesting one but it actually doesn't have anything to do with the post your quoted.
I was simply agreeing with the Anke Wehner's opinion that not "getting" or liking a book doesn't necessarily reflect on one's intelligence or even whether a person is "well read" (which should also be defined...although I think ultimately we would all have a hard time defining what that means).