Sateema Lunasi
Literotica Guru
- Joined
- Mar 18, 2001
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My literary peeve is this;
Famous books considered great for no valid reason. Doesn't a book have to be either informative or entertaining, or both? Why are some books touted as "classics" and wonderful, like Lady Chatterly's Lover. That book will put a bottle of Rhitlin to sleep. Or anything written by jane Austin. Do people really enjoy that? I'd rather watch gnats hump.
My other peeve is books and authors being analyzed to death in schools. Steinbeck once wrote a letter to a New York school stating that NOTHING he has EVER written (including The Pearl and Grapes of Wrath) has ANY symbolism in it. Nothing. It is exactly what it says, nothing more. He told the teacher to stop forcing bullshit symbolism down kids throats in his name. I always found that hilarious. In form school (high school) I used that letter to get out of reading The Pearl three times.
Famous books considered great for no valid reason. Doesn't a book have to be either informative or entertaining, or both? Why are some books touted as "classics" and wonderful, like Lady Chatterly's Lover. That book will put a bottle of Rhitlin to sleep. Or anything written by jane Austin. Do people really enjoy that? I'd rather watch gnats hump.
My other peeve is books and authors being analyzed to death in schools. Steinbeck once wrote a letter to a New York school stating that NOTHING he has EVER written (including The Pearl and Grapes of Wrath) has ANY symbolism in it. Nothing. It is exactly what it says, nothing more. He told the teacher to stop forcing bullshit symbolism down kids throats in his name. I always found that hilarious. In form school (high school) I used that letter to get out of reading The Pearl three times.