Controversial opinions on “Great Books” and authors :marseychudnotes:

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What are your hot takes on some of “The Great Books”, those considered part of the Western Canon. I'm not limiting it to the Enciclopedia Britannica volumes, you can talk about any of the renowned works on 19th and 20th century literature.

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Reading Hemingway made me understand why he put a shotgun in his mouth.

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I read The Old Man and the Sea, it was decent but forgettable

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Funny. That was the book that made me cheer for the shotgun.

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Only one of his that was any good, the others were all worse.

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also like 100 pages lol

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Papa taught me to smash puss.

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