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Originally Posted by haertig
Many classics that I have read (or tried to read) are incredibly boring and tedious to read. It has been decades since I read a classic. I doubt I will read more than one additional in my remaining lifetime. LOTR maybe - can you believe I have never read that?
Everybody has different tastes. Classics just aren't mine. Usually I find books to be so much better than movies made from them. But not for the classics. I enjoyed "The Count of Monte Cristo" movie (the version with Jim Caviezel - the only one I have seen). The book ... I was asleep before page two ended.
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I don't equate "classic" with "tops in entertainment". Classics should and do cover a wide set of genre's. I doubt anybody will like them all. But if we "all" read them, then it forms a commonality in society.
Most all of the books I read are "trash". Sci Fi, Spy Thrillers and the like. I read many of the classics in school...which is the point of having classics.