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Originally Posted by Noah98
This is a really fun topic by the way 
1. Love Star Trek but...like Star Wars more! Babylon 5  Firefly is awesome though 
2. To address the "classics are meaningless" comment: Some books are not read for entertainment, but enlightenment or information. While the classics may be dull and no longer fun, some serve an important purpose in educating the populace. Someone mentioned Orwell's 1984 as being boring. While I vehemently disagree (I couldn't put it down), I respect the opinion on its "entertainment value," but I hope we can all recognize how profoundly important that novel was and still is as a warning to mankind. Once you give up your personal freedoms and liberties, good luck getting them back!
3. I do agree that unlike 1984, some classics just don't hold up when viewed in a modern lens. For example, Catcher in the Rye is very much a "so what" book now.
Anyway, just my two cents. |
1. No way is Star Wars better then Star Trek. Babylon 5 was great. Firefly was so-so.
2. With a lot of the classics, it's not so much the story that's the problem. It's the writing that's the problem. I can watch movie adaptations of a lot of classics I would not be able to finish reading.
3. And some are dull in both writing and story.