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Mandatory Read
- Thread starter Jazzy
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I can't think of any book in-particular that I think HAS to be read. Looking back, the books that I was forced to read include To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo & Juliet, and things of that nature, and I know that schools stress a lot of Shakespeare. However, I don't think Shakespeare was that great of a writer. I think that he was an amazing storyteller in-terms of the symbolism that he did in things like Hamlet, and he stands as one of the most influential writers today, but I don't think his actual writing was that good. His writing comes off as pompous and over-complicated, and if somebody were to have his writing-style nowadays, they'd be critiqued the hell out of for trying to come off as smart by using a bunch of big words. Poetic brilliance is really easy to fake with doth thy sentence no fucking sense make.
Where was I going with this? OH! I don't think any book is necessarily essential, or at the very least, there is too many books that are essential that you'll never be able to incorporate all of them. I'd say that at least one play from Shakespeare, a couple of short-stories like The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, then, I think it should be decided by the teacher perhaps with feedback from the students. I hate this "core" mindset that every student NEEDS to read this, and this, and this, but DOESN'T need to read this because THIS isn't important.
Where was I going with this? OH! I don't think any book is necessarily essential, or at the very least, there is too many books that are essential that you'll never be able to incorporate all of them. I'd say that at least one play from Shakespeare, a couple of short-stories like The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, then, I think it should be decided by the teacher perhaps with feedback from the students. I hate this "core" mindset that every student NEEDS to read this, and this, and this, but DOESN'T need to read this because THIS isn't important.
