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May. 28th, 2002 08:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonWhy are there some great writers we just cannot read?
Interesting - I thought I was the only person in the world who ever admitted that I really have little taste for the classics. However, this guy brings up an interesting point - maybe its a matter of timing - if you aren't "ready" for a book and are faced with it anyway, you'll dismiss it and maybe never go back and try it again.
I have tried to read Tolkien around 3 times - I just don't get into it. I was finally able to follow the plot by listening to the books on tape, but it just wasn't as all-encompassing for me as it is for die-hard fans.
By the same token, I loved Anne Rice as a teenager but think I may have "outgrown" (?) her now. I just don't reread "Queen of the Damned" and "The Vampire Lestat" with the same enthusiasm that I used to. It does not help that her current works are pretty poor.
Most "classic" literature is fiction, which is a genre I don't read very often anyway. Why are there not more non-fiction classics? (do Shelby Foote's histories of the Civil War count?)
Interesting - I thought I was the only person in the world who ever admitted that I really have little taste for the classics. However, this guy brings up an interesting point - maybe its a matter of timing - if you aren't "ready" for a book and are faced with it anyway, you'll dismiss it and maybe never go back and try it again.
I have tried to read Tolkien around 3 times - I just don't get into it. I was finally able to follow the plot by listening to the books on tape, but it just wasn't as all-encompassing for me as it is for die-hard fans.
By the same token, I loved Anne Rice as a teenager but think I may have "outgrown" (?) her now. I just don't reread "Queen of the Damned" and "The Vampire Lestat" with the same enthusiasm that I used to. It does not help that her current works are pretty poor.
Most "classic" literature is fiction, which is a genre I don't read very often anyway. Why are there not more non-fiction classics? (do Shelby Foote's histories of the Civil War count?)
