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Originally Posted by Sirtel
My "classics" period was late teens and early twenties. I read lots of classics then (not because of school, but because I was interested). When I got older, I lost interest in that kind of literature and it never returned. I don't expect it will. OTOH, my love of fantasy, science fiction and (to an extent) historical fiction has never waned since childhood.
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I went through something similar, though my classics of the time were primarily what I thought of as the Great Americans. I read almost everything Steinbeck wrote. And lots of Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. I never truly warmed up to Hemingway. But I loved Fitzgerald and Steinbeck.
I do think you're missing out on something when you dismiss 'classics' as a genre. Poe's stories and The Grapes of Wrath are both classics. But that's about all they have in common.