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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It has nothing to do with video games. It has to do with the writing. The story may be good. But it's the writing. It's just not something a lot of people can get into. Shakespeare is like that. The writing is too much of a chore to plow through (for example)
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I am surprised that it took you so long to enter this thread.
Yes, Shakespeare an excellent example. The writing is so bad that hundreds of years ago his work was abandoned except among a tiny few arcane academics.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But what about modern classics? They are just as much a classic now as the old classics. The problem with classics as a category is that there is no actual definition that fits ever instance of a classic.
What definition of classic would fit for Alexander Dumas, William Shakespeare, J.R.R. Tolkien, Issac Asimov, & Douglas Adams?
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I can help with that Alexander Dumas & William Shakespeare, and maybe/probably (for LOTR) J.R.R. Tolkien yes.
Issac Asimov & Douglas Adams no, not yet and if ever for selected works.