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I honestly think it's a terrible book that happened to retain its popularity because it got shoved in as a classic that you need to read.

There are works that I genuinely enjoy, like Anthem by Ayn Rand, even though it's moralistic propaganda.

I supposed I could reread the work again to see how I feel about it, but there are million of other works I could read.



You can’t really think it’s a terrible book, can you? I could understand thinking it’s merely good, but thinking that thousands upon thousands of literary types who absolutely treasure this work are simply wrong about its quality seems ridiculous.


Just because lot of people like or treasured the work doesn't mean I have a duty to share the same opinion as everyone else.


It's not a duty, but I'd certainly be nagged by the thought that I'd 'missed something'.

Novel writing isn't a completely subjective endeavour.




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