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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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I've never consoomed Warhammer anything, but I suspect mine would have unironically been better had we read them.
One year we had to read Wuthering Heights, it was trash but it at least had some historical importance. Another year we had to read a book called "A Separate Peace", it was about some strags that didn't like each other at a boarding school during World War 2. It was the stupidest thing I ever read. Nothing happened for 300 pages.
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Wuthering Heights SUCKED
still a better read than anything by Terry Pratchet tho
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Wuthering Heights was a fun drama tbh. Emily was the most talented of the Bronte sisters after all.
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I don't even read a book unless I know there's a fan-made wiki with over 1000 entries you can use to cross-reference important elements of the story.
Classics don't even have 12 hour long video essays covering them. There's no depth.
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