WTH are the ods of me just having started reading this exact book yesterday ??? I am spooked!!
This sentence sounded way too familiar
You're just now finding out that you're the main character? Congrats!
I actually really like this, flowery language is used to "I'm 14 and this is deep"-ify simple concepts. Language is for communication, I wish it was used that way more.
if the lens you view novels through is art then this will upset you. If the lens you’re viewing them through is as information that is to be ingested, this will do just fine.
Books are allowed to be verbose and take risks in language, but I’d argue that in transferable information it’s inefficient.
I mean, that's kind of the whole problem. What is the point of ingesting The Great Gatsby if not for its artistry? It's fiction, what information do you get out of it?
I'm in Gemany and our English teacher made everybody read Shakespeare, Dickens and more in the original. I estimate at least 1/3 of our class had reached a C1/C2 level of English after 3 years of his class.
back when i was a teen, i only liked parties, music, drugs, cars, and dicks
I didnt want to spend 100 hours on some book with language from the 1800s.
Why is this a bad thing?
I believe they mean "difficult books"
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