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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I am starting to think that people who try to defy classics are just not well trained in reading and not deep thinkers. They only take in the book if it’s relevant to their everyday existence. Basically lack of imagination and knowledge.[/quote]

Agree with this. I read The Kite Runner and A Thousand Suns. They are good books but not great literature.

What is absolutely mind boggling is :
1) parents think a senior in HS is the same as an adult. They are not. Teens, especially many girls are at their most sensitive. 
2) we wonder why kids are depressed and anxious, then we look at what they are reading/viewing.

DC loves to read. I ask at every B&N I go to- can you point me in the direction of an uplifting story they can read. It is near impossible to find something without individual trauma, a dystopian world or similar. The school assigned books are the worst. Reading one or two books, per year, maybe. But DC has 5 or 6 each year. [/quote]

Maybe the "kids should read uplifting books" people can get together with the "kids should read classics" people and hash it out. With particular attention to the works of Sophocles and Tolstoy.[/quote]

Being well read is nothing to be ashamed of. [/quote]

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