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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I read King Solomon's Mines and I really didn't like it. The racism was too much and it detracted from the story. We have enough racism going on in the world without agreeing to read it. No thanks.
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I don't mind racism in the context of its times; I find it illuminating. However, even though I like period fiction, I'd rather not follow up one month of period fiction with another. And let's face it,
She is a classic because it created a genre, not because it's a towering work of literature.
I read
Jane Eyre to death when I was a girl, but I suppose it wouldn't kill me to read it again.
That's not a third, though, at least not yet.