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I don't know about you all, but English class in high school and college were boring as heck for me. Just had a thought that I would have read way more if a 40k book or two were thrown in there. Just my opinion but books like The Great Gatsby, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Tale of Two Cities etc don't hold a candle to 40k lore.
A bit off track, but I read on Youtube once (can't find the comment anymore) that some high school student was reading a manga titled "Berserk" and his teacher mocked him along the lines of comic books being unworthy forms of literature. Somehow the student got the teacher to read a bit and the teacher later said it's the best thing he's ever read.
I get that the books we read in English class are "Classics" with "valuable themes", but you can't say that there aren't valuable themes in 40k. If something has value, but it's boring as heck, then the student isn't going to remember it anyway, so all that value is lost. But if it's interesting, then we're opening some doors. Thoughts?
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r/bookscirclejerk - They should teach WH40K lore in school
tl;dr mandatory lore classes in high school
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We had a lot of opportunities across grade school to do English and reading stuff with books of our choosing. Harry Potter was not allowed though lol - every fricking teacher, elementary school, middle school, and high school, when one of these assignments came up they'd say no Harry Potter because everyone would do it and other reasons that were all basically "read another book." A lot of those would usually also cross out some other popular ones like LOTR, chronicles of Narnia, Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. Anything with a movie too - either based on it or a novelization, but most would allow related books, like Star Wars novels that weren't the movies.
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For the state regents exam to graduate high school I had to pick a book of my choosing for one essay question and I flexed on my English teacher by doing Dr. Seuss and getting a great score
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The largest online book rating site/community (https://www.goodreads.com/) has some entries of the HP as the highest rated books of all time.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/153860
LMAO it's all YA shit and manga.
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I'm torn on stuff like this, because I don't know what to snob is so so much better. Obviously classics are pretty good, but I won't pretend everybody should be stuck in the past and be quoting Herman Melville. Blood Meridian? John Grisham lol? Jack Reacher and military porn? Warhammer? My tastes aren't really high art, not sure if Terry Pratchett should dominate the list. If you start filling out a hundred books personally, you'll probably keep thinking of goofy stuff.
I'd much prefer more of the next generation to read foid brained garbage than be on TikTok. A lot of books I've found stimulating are really rando things I've picked up that I wouldn't even say are good.
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Reading long form literature in general is very helpful towards education. To quickly read, digest and retain the essentials of a large text will help with practically every other subject.
If the choice is between kids getting to read 40k slop in school leading to them continuing to read outside of assignments that is massively more useful than if they were to read a single "classic" in school and never pick up another book again.
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Any actual work of literature sits at between 2.5 and 3.5 on there with the reviews shat up by people copypasting their epic tumblr gif posts calling it problematic and boring.
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