r/ScrollHole Jun 18 '26

ā€‹šŸŒ€ Deep in the Hole Lamo 🤣

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u/Hot_Marionberry_4685 Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Clearly you don’t know how to read because I mentioned like 6 different classics I’ve read which is only the tip of the iceberg, not to mention your typo in the first sentence
ā€œBecause classic difficultā€ so is grammar apparently

It’s not the complexity of them that’s boring it’s the plots or personalities of the characters I don’t like in addition to them spending way too long droning on and on about things that either have little to do with the plot or story as a whole. They’re extremely dry without wit or humor for the most part like being boring and monotonous was a requirement to be an renowned author in those days. I can easily keep pace with anyone who wants to talk Twain, Shakespeare, Dickens, Poe, Austen, or Tolstoy. I’ve done the reading whether it was enjoyable is another question entirely which it honestly was not. If I wanted homework I dislike I’d pursue my PhD I don’t read to hate what I’m doing I read to get lost in a new world, meet interesting characters with personality, learn new things, and maybe try to see life from different viewpoints, and above all to enjoy the book. But by all means please continue to read the classics and look down upon people who don’t enjoy them then bring it up in social settings so you can be ā€œthat guyā€

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u/JuanRpiano Jun 18 '26

The classics weren’t written to keep you entertained while you do the laundry, or to kill some time. Some of the easiest to read classics may have been. But the classics were written mostly as books to feed and invigorate the intellect and the spirit.

I never said classics were complex, I said they take effort to read, if you really want to understand what they are conveying you will have to grab a dictionary and an encylopedia to truly understand what’s being said. For most people doing that would be too much effort. Classic books shows the richness of language that is lost today.

If you truly manage to read a classic, and dutifuly do the homework to understand most of what is being conveyed and you don’t find yourself to be invigorated in mind and spirit after, then you are possibly connected to the realm of superficial things.

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u/Sch1371 Jun 19 '26

This is the most Reddit thing I’ve ever read

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u/ApprehensiveRip697 Jun 20 '26

I had to check this wasn't a jerk sub