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Q: Which book genre do you avoid at all costs and why?
A: This may sound bad but I avoid a lot of contemporary and classics. With classics I worry I'm not going to like it but I should because it's A Classic and contemporary tends to depress me. I want to get lost in my books.
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I think you have to find different classics! I am finding that I love the classics more now that I am older and not being forced to read them by a teacher. :)
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I'm not a huge comtemp fan, either. Old follower!
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I tend to think the same about classics but at times I find some good ones. New follower!
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Classics used to scare me but then I started reading more of them and they just read like regular books to me now!
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Hopping through. I wish I read more classics. I feel like I would be more cultured.
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I never thought anyone would avoid contemporary LOL
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I love some "Classics" as in Kafka and Goethe, but for some reasons am not that big a fan of Jane Austen. (I loved Bronte's Wuthering Heights, though when I read it.. Which was with 15, so it's been a while. I wish we had read it in school. ;( ) So I can understand the no classics stuff. And Contemporaries, too.. I don't read many of them. For similiar reasons.
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Classics are normally a hit or miss with me. There are some that just dragged on, like To the Lighthouse, and others that I fell in love with, Pride and Prejudice. I guess it all just depends.
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ReplyDeleteI know how you feel about classics. Everyone expects everyone else to enjoy all classics. In reality this isn't the case. Just because it's classic, doesn't mean its good.
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I enjoy classics once in awhile, happy Friday!
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I agree... I have a real hard time with contemporary books. I read to escape. :)
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i find it hard to read classics sometimes , perhaps it's the writing style. new follower http://totallybookedsolid.blogspot.com/2012/01/follow-friday_27.html
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ReplyDeleteI actually haven't read that many "classic' books ... I think that's worse than avoiding them all together haha :)
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Good answer! Classics are boring to me :)
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I avoid contemporary for the most part as well. They tend to not be as interesting to me. I have a very select list of classics I would like to read, but they're mostly genre things like Dracula and Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde.
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I forgot to mention classics too. I hate classics too. They aren't that fun to read. They're more like a dread to read! My FF!
ReplyDeleteI love classics, though I definitely understand how so much of it seems like pressure to like them just because they're considered a "classic." I definitely have to fight a few people when they hear I don't like Vonnegut!
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