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I'm all for reading the classics, but if you take all of the fun out of reading, nobody is going to do it. If someone had forced me to read Plato instead of Har
by fasterik 2mo ago
I'm all for reading the classics, but if you take all of the fun out of reading, nobody is going to do it. If someone had forced me to read Plato instead of Harry Potter as a kid, I wouldn't have done nearly as much reading as I did, which prepared me for tackling more difficult texts as I matured.
Re: American TV, Deadwood is widely considered some of the best Shakespearean writing of the modern age.
- PunchyHamster 2mo ago> I'm all for reading the classics, but if you take all of the fun out of reading, nobody is going to do it. If someone had forced me to read Plato instead of Harry Potter as a kid, I wouldn't have done nearly as much reading as I did, which prepared me for tackling more difficult texts as I matured. You don't have to jump between extremes, plenty of interesting and still brain engaging books
- sandworm101 2mo agoShakspearian in plot. They still talk like uneducated cowboys operating from a limited vocabulary.