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Originally Posted by bZkindle
There's quite a bit of overlap between books that are 'critically acclaimed' and 'classics', wouldn't you say?
After all, 'classics' are by necessity 'critically acclaimed'.
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Again, that wasn't my point and I'm not sure why you're bringing up classics. A book can be critically acclaimed and not be a classic. For instance, a book I mentioned earlier in this thread, Minaret, has been critically acclaimed in Britain and the author, Leila Aboulela, has written critically acclaimed works ranging from short stories to novels. I wouldn't say her works are classics in the sense we're talking about. Maybe they'll become classics but who knows. Also, some works that we consider classics now, weren't critically acclaimed, at least when they were first written. Jane Austen's works didn't become critically acclaimed until long after her death.
Yeah, I got that. It was also insulting and belittling.