forum Classics?

Started June 25, 2018 by @doug

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Hamlet is an edgier me

I enjoyed reading The Count of Monte Cristo and just about anything by Edgar Allan Poe.

The Count of Monte Cristo was good - I found out there's and anime of it now, and it's an edgy space opera.

I've known about that, and it's been around for a while now. I enjoyed the twist that the anime put on the story.

Yeah, I know the anime's been around a little while, but I only heard about it recently. I thought it was a neat update to the story.

I’ve been thinking about this for a while, but what makes a classic to be considered a classic? There are tons of other old books in the world, but nobody ever says, “yeah, just finished rereading the ancient Grecian texts. Sure is a classic.” You know?

I always defined classics as works published before the era of mass communication (specifically the birth of sharing platforms on the internet) Classics for me are works from a time where tropes, characters, and overall stories weren't very well monitored. (Thus when we read these stories, we know that they come from a fundamentally different time period in literature, a time where literature was isolated, and rarely intercultural.) Though I suppose I also like to say that works that were published or that I read when I was younger are also classics. Like harry potter, for my family, it's a 'classic.'

I guess what classics are can be subjective from person to person.

Hamlet is an edgier me

Lol I am Hamlet

I really enjoyed reading As You Like It. It's a comedy by Shakespeare that actually has a happy ending. Go figure.

Stephen King's earlier works are classics in my opinion.

OK but have you read It? Wild.

Found this late, but….
I LOVE SHAKESPEARE!!!!
I've read Hamlet, Much Ado, Midsummer Night's, and Romeo and Juliet.
I love them all, but Hamlet and Midsummer are my favorites!!
I also love Frankenstein.