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Ever wonder why 95% of "Great Literature" is utterly retarded and boring?

i still, from time to time, think about this, and resent my ...
.,.,...,.,,.,.,:..;..:.,.,,,,.,;.,.,.:.:.,:.::,.
  01/11/26
now imagine the shitlib literature theyre reading in HS now ...
...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
  01/11/26
This is an idiotic take. Literature is truly beautiful and a...
black abyss
  01/11/26
I toss the literature boy! I toss it like rubbish!
average/ordinary/typical citizen/person
  01/11/26
Subtle Ethan Frome bashing
'"'''"'''""""
  01/11/26
By any measure, I was probably in the 99th percentile of hig...
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  01/11/26
The black literature was even worse
'"'''"'''""""
  01/11/26
"I was probably in the 99th percentile of high school l...
Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband
  01/12/26
It's bonkers how millions of high school kids are forced to ...
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screenman
  01/11/26
Every American school child should be forced to slog their w...
black abyss
  01/11/26
the classics are one of the few redeeming aspects of the mod...
zarathustra
  01/11/26
there’s a special kind of comedy in how those who trum...
miltonian
  01/12/26
Latin and Greek are dumb and gay.
ponyboy curtis
  01/12/26
the dense unintelligible prose is 180 because it lets them k...
cowgod
  01/11/26
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jewish billionaire using 30% off coupon on XO Gold
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fully online and responsive
  01/12/26
The point is to give them all a reference point for having s...
Jared Baumeister
  01/11/26
Bro thats how you ended up pumo!
Mister Yak
  01/11/26
It couldn't have anything to do with your intelligence.
3I/Atlas
  01/11/26
thread not going how OP expected? the western canon is 180,...
Kenneth Play
  01/11/26
american authors yes, you gotta read non-american
\'\'\"\"\'\'\'\"
  01/11/26
Retarded
hung stud
  01/11/26
Moby Dick is 97590402001710103710
FUCK LIBS
  01/11/26
I don’t think “great literature” is synony...
kevin eubanks and the tonight show band
  01/11/26
what books would you recommend instead ? id have paul val...
screenman
  01/11/26
Print capitalism has been a disaster for mankind
Jared Baumeister
  01/11/26
teachers should go before the school boards in open session...
sealclubber
  01/11/26
Should students be required to read (after purchasing at ful...
Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband
  01/12/26
why do you write this way?
Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings
  01/12/26


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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:15 PM
Author: .,.,...,.,,.,.,:..;..:.,.,,,,.,;.,.,.:.:.,:.::,.


i still, from time to time, think about this, and resent my high school teachers for making me read those books

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49581978)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:17 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,


now imagine the shitlib literature theyre reading in HS now

the stuff we read aint perfect, but imagine hs english now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49581980)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:26 PM
Author: black abyss (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving)

This is an idiotic take. Literature is truly beautiful and ascended at times. It’s not some trifle to be tossed away like a piece of rubbish.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582002)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:39 PM
Author: average/ordinary/typical citizen/person

I toss the literature boy! I toss it like rubbish!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582036)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:30 PM
Author: '"'''"'''""""

Subtle Ethan Frome bashing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582011)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:35 PM
Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,,


By any measure, I was probably in the 99th percentile of high school literature readers.

The only thing I took away from Ethan Frome was "wtf - why would they try to kill themselves by sledding? how stupid are these people that they thought this would work?"

What was the point of the average kids being forced to read this shit?

Wouldn't a Michael Chricton book capture their attention 10x more and present dramatic themes and philosophy in a much more understandable way?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582022)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:44 PM
Author: '"'''"'''""""

The black literature was even worse

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582047)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:35 AM
Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois)

"I was probably in the 99th percentile of high school literature readers"

And I'm sure your grades (and subsequent academic success) reflected this reality.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582333)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:30 PM
Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,,


It's bonkers how millions of high school kids are forced to read these books with story and themes unrecognizable to them with dense unintelliglbe prose.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582013)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:36 PM
Author: screenman



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582026)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:38 PM
Author: black abyss (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving)

Every American school child should be forced to slog their way through Moby Dick in 9th grade.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582029)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:56 PM
Author: zarathustra

the classics are one of the few redeeming aspects of the modern american high school humanities curriculum. they should be reading this kind of material exclusively in addition to latin and greek. the problem is that they deviate from it.

their teachers surely fuck up the discourse but mere exposure is at least a lifeline to the few intellects worth salvaging. the remaining 99% are just in virtual daycare anyways.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582078)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:33 AM
Author: miltonian

there’s a special kind of comedy in how those who trumpet loudest for latin and greek are almost always the ones who haven’t spent real time with either.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582332)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:49 AM
Author: ponyboy curtis (If I May, tp)

Latin and Greek are dumb and gay.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582347)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:16 PM
Author: cowgod

the dense unintelligible prose is 180 because it lets them know how dumb they are. Losers should also be forced to take calculus. The education system is good at letting a person know how dumb they are if they don't disengage with it too early.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582245)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:55 AM
Author: jewish billionaire using 30% off coupon on XO Gold



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582348)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:56 AM
Author: fully online and responsive



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582502)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:25 PM
Author: Jared Baumeister (mail@baumeisterlaw.com)

The point is to give them all a reference point for having some kind of cultural/national identity. You don't have to like any of it, you just have know the basic plot or how to pronounce the author's name. Mexicans love reading the classics so they can feel more European

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582258)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:39 PM
Author: Mister Yak

Bro thats how you ended up pumo!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582033)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:43 PM
Author: 3I/Atlas

It couldn't have anything to do with your intelligence.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582042)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:48 PM
Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth)

thread not going how OP expected? the western canon is 180, actually

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582054)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:49 PM
Author: \'\'\"\"\'\'\'\"

american authors yes, you gotta read non-american

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582057)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:09 PM
Author: hung stud

Retarded

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582232)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:27 PM
Author: FUCK LIBS (TDNW)

Moby Dick is 97590402001710103710

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582262)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:50 PM
Author: kevin eubanks and the tonight show band

I don’t think “great literature” is synonymous with most of the bullshit they made us read in hs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582060)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 9:55 PM
Author: screenman

what books would you recommend instead ?

id have paul valery monsieur teste and the remains of the day

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582070)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:19 PM
Author: Jared Baumeister (mail@baumeisterlaw.com)

Print capitalism has been a disaster for mankind

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582251)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 11:23 PM
Author: sealclubber

teachers should go before the school boards

in open session

and tell them the books they are going to require for each class

and why

before every school year, perhaps before every semester

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582254)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:36 AM
Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois)

Should students be required to read (after purchasing at full price) The Art of the Deal?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582336)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 3:05 AM
Author: Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings (gunneratttt)

why do you write this way?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820902&forum_id=2#49582508)