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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Authors like Austen get kids to read less or not at all.
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I read
Pride and Prejudice when I was 11 and I was enchanted. And this was before Austen was "popular." Yrs, I'm dating myself. But then, I was already a reader.
I like Trollope better than Dickens, but I acknowledge that Dickens is the greater writer. I think some are not using their powers of discrimination here. You can like something, even a lot, without thinking it's great, just as you can admittedly not care for indisputably great book.
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Wodehouse is only significant in the UK. Not so much outside the UK.
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I love Wodehouse. Speak for yourself.