Joking aside.
The problem with classics fans is:
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Classics are classics BECAUSE they are great books. Dickens, Trollope, Austen, etc, are all fantastic reads.
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and they persist on foisting this idea on everybody around them. They completely disregard that the very definition of
Great books is different for every reader. There is no authority that has a power, means or intellect to decide it.
For one reader Dickens is a classic, for another reader it is Sir Walter Scott, and Robert Jordan is classic yet for another reader.
The question is why don't Jordan's fans try to push this idea and force everybody to read him, when so called classics fans think of themselves that they are superior and can do it and request of us
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you have to "get into" them?
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For the life of me I don't see how Dickens is any better than Steven Erikson. It is exactly the opposite for me but I don't feel superior and think less of people who don't like Steven Erikson and don't see his works as classics. I would not insist on his books to be a compulsory reading of school curriculum.
To each its own.