Now Republicans can read!

Content/context lost in the "simplification":

The speaker no longer feels they are in a vulnerable age. The speaker has a more formal relationship with their father. The "something" is specifically advice. The advice can change meaning depending on your perspective of it.

While it's great as an introduction to a language, it's NOT the same story. Not to mention, we already have things like SparkNotes from humans who have broken these stories down.

Do Joyce next!

I believe they mean "difficult books"

I feel like I might like this. I'm an idiot and sometimes struggle to maintain attention reading. So give me a short sentence direct to the point and I'm good to go.

Mean while all my comments are novels with 3rd grade grammar and spelling

WTH are the ods of me just having started reading this exact book yesterday ??? I am spooked!!

This sentence sounded way too familiar

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'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 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.