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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I really would like to see classic where the books nominated (overall) were not of the old and dull variety. We seem to get that every time classic comes up for nomination. It's kike most people ignore books that are more modern. Like if a book is not at least so old, it cannot be a classic. It's usually the same sorts of old books nominated and (IMHO), it makes classic a slog of a month because a lot of the books nominated are just dull.
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I think we can take it as a given that no one sets out to nominate a dull book. People suggest the type of books they like. If people "ignore" modern classics, it's because they prefer to nominate or vote for something else, and maybe it's an older, but not dull to them, something else.
I'm saying this because after all this time, I really don't understand your vendetta against classic month. I get it, you don't like older, canon, Victorian, public domain, whatever. But do you really expect the category for each month, and the selection for each month, to be exactly to your taste? That's flatly unreasonable. It's a big group with catholic interests. Just speaking personally, I'm pretty confident that the MR Club of Books only with the JSWolf Stamp of Approval would have little to offer me. I like classics, I don't like SF. That's ok. I'd never dream of suggesting that SF as a category shouldn't exist.
I see two possibilities. The first, of course, would be to let it go. The second would be to try to work within the parameter any given month and come up with a suggestion that you'd enjoy and that others would enjoy, too. Heck, I nominated the winner for Horror month one year, so it can be done.