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natreads · 2 years

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anyone else really tired of “classic lit” being seen as only one type of book when in reality it’s just a category for older books that are a part of a (western, I admit) literary canon and in fact there are many different types of genres that are included in it

#nat talks #like I GET why people have an aversion to it #elitism and whatnot is a big problem #and I don't care if you don't wanna read classics that's perfectly fine you do you #but classics can be anything from epic poems to sci-fi to romance (kinda)#I say kinda because it's not the romance we associate the genre with today #and modern classics are a thing! and they are much more accessible!#and not every book reads the same way #like some of them are 2000 years apart OF COURSE they're not the same #idk I just think there's so much to find about history and society and humans in classics #which is why I love them

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