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In Our Time
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I have a deep, unabiding dislike of Hemingway's style. It's sparse, it's soulless, and reads like it was written by a third-grader who just learned to construct sentences.
Whether you like him or not, have a gifset of Nick Miller trying to be Hemingway:
Whether you like him or not, have a gifset of Nick Miller trying to be Hemingway:
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October 2, 2015
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Oct 02, 2015 10:05PM
Perhaps Hemmingway is only considered good because so many people claimed it over such a long time.
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I steer clean of his books even though my dad idolizes him! LOL
@Andre That's what I think, too. Classics are considered good by default, even though some totally suck.@Mizuki My parents and I don't share the same reading taste either. :P
Natalie wrote: "@Andre That's what I think, too. Classics are considered good by default, even though some totally suck.@Mizuki My parents and I don't share the same reading taste either. :P"
Both sounds very familiar to me :D
I'm not a classic reader either. It's one of the only things I hate about English class in school: the way they force you to read old books even though most of them are irrelevant.
But I've always hated people who think they're better than others because they've read all the classics. Or that books made in the 21st Century shouldn't be read in classrooms. It's ridiculous.
But I've always hated people who think they're better than others because they've read all the classics. Or that books made in the 21st Century shouldn't be read in classrooms. It's ridiculous.
Mikaela (thirdwit) wrote: "I'm not a classic reader either. It's one of the only things I hate about English class in school: the way they force you to read old books even though most of them are irrelevant. But I've alway..."
Preach. I distrust people who only read classics because it implies they don't know much about books at all, just the greatest hits.
I wait eagerly for the day Harry Potter is studied in classrooms everywhere. It's halfway there already—it's banned. ;)
Natalie wrote: "Mikaela (thirdwit) wrote: "I'm not a classic reader either. It's one of the only things I hate about English class in school: the way they force you to read old books even though most of them are i..."
I've always thought it'd be great to read each HP book a year, starting in the sixth grade. It'd be so much fun to grow up with the characters and mature as you trek through middle school till high school graduation. And watch the movies, too.
And I've never thought about classic readers like that. It's quite true actually. One of my favorite English teachers always talked about how she wanted THG and Stargirl to be in the school curriculum and talked about the Divergent series with the class. She was very much into twenty first century books, and I'd a,ways loved that about her.
I've always thought it'd be great to read each HP book a year, starting in the sixth grade. It'd be so much fun to grow up with the characters and mature as you trek through middle school till high school graduation. And watch the movies, too.
And I've never thought about classic readers like that. It's quite true actually. One of my favorite English teachers always talked about how she wanted THG and Stargirl to be in the school curriculum and talked about the Divergent series with the class. She was very much into twenty first century books, and I'd a,ways loved that about her.
Arnab wrote: "Shouldn't 'abiding' make more sense than 'unabiding'?"I think both work? I've seen them used in the same context. :P
Natalie wrote: "Mikaela (thirdwit) wrote: "I'm not a classic reader either. It's one of the only things I hate about English class in school: the way they force you to read old books even though most of them are i..."I'm late to the party but... HP is banned ? who would do such a horrible, horrible thing ?
Lea wrote: "Natalie wrote: "Mikaela (thirdwit) wrote: "I'm not a classic reader either. It's one of the only things I hate about English class in school: the way they force you to read old books even though mo..."Some conservatives say it promotes witchcraft. It's ridiculous.
Oooooh yes I did hear about that. Conservatives are the bane of my existence.
Couldn’t agree more. I kept wondering if this book was actually a children’s book, considering how simplistically it is written, but with the gory subject matter was just left confused as to what everyone’s been raving about with their Hemingway worship all of these years.
You are free to not like Hemingway or his style, but to compare it to a 3rd grader's level is woefully out of line.
"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use." - Ernest Hemingway
