Which classics may fall out of favor in the future?
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Re: Which classics may fall out of favor in the future?
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Winnie the pooh is a wonderful book. I used to love the cartoons when I was a kid. Then I read this book called Tao of Pooh, and realised that even adults have a lot to learn from Pooh and piglet. I cannot even imagine that anyone would want to ban these books and deny our kids the enjoyment we gained from these wonderful characters. That makes me really sad.smmoore2025 wrote: ↑25 May 2018, 10:46 Winne-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
The intresting thing about this topic is not only are adult classics becoming obsolete, but children classics are as well. All over schools are banning books we once read. Claiming they premote bad behavor or insulting something or another. Banning books like The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein), Anne Frank's Diary (Anne Frank) and Winnie-the-Pooh (A.A Milne) is a shame. How can they ban Winnie-the-Pooh for being considered an insult to god. I remember reading these books and never being able to put them down. They provide imagination and adventure for young minds and shouldnt be banned because one miniscule detail may seem offensive to one. Then dont read it. Children reading these books dont realize those details, all they care about is the wonderdul jounrey their taken on.
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Yes, the sentences in classics were constructed beautifully. They used to be long and complex, yet amazingly poignant and elegant. I noticed this difference for the first time when we had to read The Count of Monte Cristo in high school. My textbook was an abridged version. Then I read the long version with 500+ pages from the library and I enjoyed it immensely. I actually felt disappointed that the education system was giving a watered down version of this amazing classic and my friends who never read the complete version would never get to know the beauty of Dumas' words. Today, everyone relies on Cliff Notes. Who reads Shakespeare and Dante in their original form anymore? One section of the reading spectrum is left to lament in this manner, while the other section reads "Fifty Shades of Grey" and calls themselves avid readers.Crystal_Lynn wrote: ↑16 Apr 2019, 20:11 I don't want any of the classics to "fizzle" out. It isn't about what you agree with, that is the problem we are having with education now. It's about the classical wording, and interesting stories with fascinating adjectives and imagination. A lot of the literature and reading has been watered down today because of political, socialist type conforming and it puts everyone's creativity in a box.
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That is an interesting observation and example. I had never heard of such a book. so I googled it. It is Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook by Sarah Schmelling . It is a depressing fact that in today's "280 characters" world, classics with 500 pages or above considered as tomes are soon to be obsolete.Vscholz wrote: ↑10 Aug 2018, 21:35 With the current consumption rate of information, many books will fall out of favor. The attention span of audiences (with exception of visual media, such as movies and TV shows) is extremely limited. The limitations of text-speak, imposed by limited texts allowed to send in the past or created through a desire for a quicker way of communication, have contributed to this issue.
There's a book about classic characters joining Facebook. It is something like "Ophelia joined the group Maidens Who Like to Drown" and is rather humorous. However, even though it was published this century (maybe 15 years ago at most), the format has taken off and become even more condensed. You can see evidence of how people imagine characters would interact on social media thanks to many many many Tumblr users.
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Pride and the prejudice also needs to be written in an easier language so we don't have to read it four times to get the full picture. Emphasis on simple, spoken and current english.
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Maybe Shakespeare should be rewritten? It seems like such a bizarre idea to me.pricklypurple wrote: ↑30 Jun 2018, 16:14 Unfortunately, I think Shakespeare will fade out with time because it is essentially written in a language we don't speak anymore. So, unless it is updated, kids generations from now will not be able to understand it at all.
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Yes, maybe, but they are being rewritten in new and creative ways.coffeeteal wrote: ↑15 Jun 2019, 11:42 I have a feeling that fairy tale classics have already started fading out.
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