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Wasn't that brought up a while back due to that post-Avatar-watching depression?

 

That feeling of not liking the literature from class seems all too familiar. Well, minus Shakespeare. That was actually fun!

What are some of the books you're reading/studying?

 

In my current literature class--American Lit 1850-1920, we have read (though this isn't the whole list) these:

Walt Whitman poetry

Emily Dickinson poetry

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Selected works from Charles W. Chesnutt

Paul Laurence Dunbar's "The Ingrate," "We Wear the Mask," and "When Malindy Sings."

 

Personally, I am reading The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Other endeavors soon to come include the third book of that trilogy, Solar, A Game of Thrones, Sherlock Holmes stories, and Dune, off the top of my head. Recently I read Ender's Game and Mockingjay.

 

-CF

That is definitely a good perspective to put on literature. If the story is simply "a day in the life of your average guy/girl," what's the point? There's nothing to learn from that. No great new perspective to gain. Nor is there any great excitement, grand adventures, etc.

I understand what you mean. Two of the three pieces of literature we have been given failed to entertain me (the third was A Midsummer Night's Dream), and often when I'm shopping for books a voice in my head says "Say [name redacted], you're an intelligent fellow, why don't you buy some adult literature?". Then I promptly ignore it and buy a Horus Heresy book. Hasn't failed me yet.

P.S. I liked Huckleberry Finn

P.P.S. You still haven't finished LotR yet?

That is definitely a good perspective to put on literature. If the story is simply "a day in the life of your average guy/girl," what's the point? There's nothing to learn from that. No great new perspective to gain. Nor is there any great excitement, grand adventures, etc.

Realistic fiction isn't always your average guy/girl; I just read a book about a pair of twins that turn out to be one person with split personalities.

 

My tastes vary. If I feel like detaching myself from the world, sci-fi and fantasy are perfect.

 

If I want to feel, I go with realistic.

I've always disliked most realistic fiction for this reason. It's just so boring.