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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Personally, I find most classics overrated. Most are praised into heaven just because they're a classic, not due to writing skills. There are only a few classics which I really like to read (both in Dutch and English).
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Don't you think, though, that most books that are considered "classics" are considered to be so
because of the "writing skills" of the author? The reason that the books of authors like Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy, to name but three, are regarded as "classics" is because they were very, very good authors.
Merely being "old" doesn't make a book a "classic" - you only have to look at PG to see that most old books were just as trashy as most modern books are; it's only a tiny minority which are generally considered to be "classics".