In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you hate a novel you read as a teen in high school," he told me, "make sure to complain about it online for the rest of your life." - ThreadSky

thelincoln.bsky.social • 210 days ago

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

"Whenever you hate a novel you read as a teen in high school," he told me, "make sure to complain about it online for the rest of your life."

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casuallychaotic.bsky.social•209 days ago

My aunt once told me, "If you don't have anything positive to say, bitch and moan like a big spoilt baby until someone lets you be president."

doctorworm13.bsky.social•209 days ago

Feed has some kind of message about needing to pay into devices to fit into society, but it muddies the ideals of it by also meaning it just gives you cancer if it's not good enough. The story would work almost the same if it were just about computers in general, but then it's all sorrow and dying.

mpbmke.com•209 days ago

I took a class called Novels and I only remember the books I hated, and none of the ones (one?) that I actually liked. 😩

Anyhow, Cold Mountain and The Power of One can get bent.

rorykelly.bsky.social•209 days ago

George Elliot died never knowing how much I hated her, so my next best revenge is making sure everyone else knows.

blepbork.bsky.social•210 days ago

Thank you. I *will* complain about Tess of the d’Ubervilles the rest of my life.

londonlee.bsky.social•209 days ago

This post is making fun of adults who complain about the books they read in school and everyone here is doing just that 🙄

landmoose.bsky.social•209 days ago

Spoken like someone that was never subjected to "A Separate Peace".

leerowan.bsky.social•209 days ago

We don't need your dad's permission. Your filial devotion is noted.

umukk.bsky.social•209 days ago

I’m sorry, I’ll never mention A High Wind in Jamaica again.
But that horrible ending!
I’m sorry, NOW never again.

drprunesquallor.bsky.social•209 days ago

When I revisit a writer I hated in high school, I almost always think "What was my problem?" Always excepting Gatsby.

Also, I decline to revisit Henry James.

davidkuhne.bsky.social•209 days ago

We studied Melville in high school and I was thinking this is dull and overrated and obvious and then a few years later I read Moby Dick on my own and it was like getting hit by a sledgehammer (same with his buddy Hawthorne)

thelincoln.bsky.social•209 days ago

Moby-Dick completely lives up to the hype

drprunesquallor.bsky.social•209 days ago

More than, and so does THE CONFIDENCE MAN (although that is NOT a book I'd assign in high school)

drprunesquallor.bsky.social•209 days ago

I'll leave with this 1982 banger by Russell Baker, once a very famous columnist back when the NYT was still good:
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/14/opinion/observer-the-only-gentleman.html

drprunesquallor.bsky.social•209 days ago

(I did reread Gatsby earlier this year, and (a) Jordan should really have been the protagonist, and (b) there's nothing else worthwhile in it except the party scene and a couple of glorious descriptions.)

vorpalithic.bsky.social•209 days ago

I'm an English Teacher now, and even I make it a point to tell the students that Scarlet Letter and The Sun Also Rises are detestable

gerrygambino.bsky.social•209 days ago

I read Atlas Shrugged in my 20s, can I still complain about it? 'Cause it's still Awful.

scottsemegran.com•209 days ago

Solid advice

spookylawless.bsky.social•209 days ago

Hello, I can offer you rants on Lord of the Flies and Of Mice and Men, please take your pick. They are equal in length and ferocity.

pnutzgg.bsky.social•209 days ago

It was all worth it just to see some idiot film maker/producer bounce a paper mache boulder off piggy's head and say "yes, this looks good and adds to the story and should stay in"

adamlcox.bsky.social•210 days ago

…which brings me to “Tess of the D’Urbervilles,” the worst book ever written

metaadamjohnson.bsky.social•209 days ago

It’s both funny that people are earnestly responding with examples and that the most common answer is 💯 my answer lol

finnegans.bsky.social•209 days ago

LOL! Not at all the expected comment. In the same vein, I revisit books and recordings to see if and how my tastes have changed. For the life of me, I still cannot listen to an entire side of Cecil Taylor.

theworldsgreatestwriter.com•210 days ago

“And if you can make your objection political somehow, lay it on nice and thick. Less is only more when more isn’t”

pnutzgg.bsky.social•209 days ago

All those required books I didn't read paid off in the end

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