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Originally Posted by astra
For me Classic books are books written probably before 1950s?...old, boring staff. Dry language, themes that are not interesting to me etc. On the other hand, I don't think I read any contemporary books that cover the same topics. Maybe if Black Company was written 200 years ago, it would be considered classics and I would read it and would be qualified as reader os classic literature.
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The Iliad and the Odyssey have swordfights, gods, magic and enchantments, travels and adventures. Yawn... boring stuff
By the way, a few years ago I would have included the Iliad in my list of "overhyped classics". But a couple of years ago I read it again, and it was a completely different book for me. Sure, it's still a bunch of guys killing each other, but each single one of these guys has a history, a father (sometimes even a mother, lol), an ordinary or extraordinary life that is sketched in a few words - and then the guy dies. This second time around, I found it much more moving than the Odyssey. Just goes to show, what you get from a book can change so much over the years.