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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
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.
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It's not so much that I dismiss them as a genre, but that I no longer find myself attracted to older books. I prefer modern genre fiction these days. No idea why. It just is what it is and I see no reason to force myself to read something, now that I'm close to fifty. There isn't enough time to read everything I want to read, let alone things I don't want.
Btw, I didn't like Hemingway either. Don't really remember Steinbeck or Fitzgerald, although I certainly read a book from both, at the very least. Probably just felt meh. I tended to like romantics more than realists. Victor Hugo, Dumas, George Sand, sisters Bronte etc.