The Most Overrated Classics
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Re: The Most Overrated Classics
I do love Mockingbird. The writing never turned me off.
I like Hamlet as well because some of the soliloquys are so beautifully written. But am not a fan of Othello, which seems way too overblown for me (though Iago is a classic villain) Winter's Tale makes little sense to me and Love's Labor's Lost is full of "in jokes" that nobody gets anymore. Not all of Shakespeare needs to be revered.
Hamlet is better if paired with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard. He follows the mostly inconspicuous pair through the timeline of the play - including the few Shakespearean scenes they appear in, and provides a more modern, comical and existential view of life and deathg (the to be or not to be question).
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I read to Kill a Mockingbird young and growing up in the South, so that might have a lot to do with my appreciation of that one. I really gets you thinking at that age, and I remember it as being a difficult read.
Hamlet! The ' To be or not to be' scene I just can not think of as overrated, though it has been very overused. It gets a serious emotional response from me.
Your list of underrated is very interesting. I have not read a single one of them and I had thought I have a good base in classics. Opps, I'll get them on the to be read list
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I remember enjoying To Kill a Mockingbird, and I have an appreciation for Frankenstein mostly because I Iike the backstory of how Shelley conceived the idea, but I dislike the book itself.
My number one favourite "classic" of all time is The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway. Thoughtful, gorgeous.
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This is one of the experiences I realize all English majors need to have prior to receiving a diploma. (It should be assigned along with a gift card to Starbucks—yes, pun intended!)
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I personally only disagree with one author: Dashiell Hammett. I thought The Maltese Falcon was poorly written and cliche, probably because it is so often the source of detective cliches.maiamalanee wrote: ↑29 Aug 2017, 12:38 I can name a number of classics that I consider underrated (these might not even be considered classics, but I think of them as such):
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn (this is my father's favorite book)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
anything by Alexandre Dumas
anything by Dashiell Hammett
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ulysses by James Joyce
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad