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Overheard a book club member call a classic novel 'boring homework' and it made me mad
I was at the coffee shop in town and the group at the next table was talking about 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. One person said, 'It's just boring homework from high school, why are we reading it again?' That really got to me. It's not just a school book, it's about seeing the world through a kid's eyes when everything is unfair. Has your club ever had someone dismiss a classic like that?
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matthewp522mo ago
They missed the whole point of the book.
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stone.thomas2mo ago
Ugh, that happens all the time. I saw a whole movie review that spent ten minutes talking about the costumes in a war film. Sometimes people just fixate on the wrong thing completely.
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river_bailey21mo ago
Started telling my book club about how my cousin's kid had to read The Great Gatsby in school, and he told me it was literally just about a guy who throws parties for nobody. I laughed because okay, a kid missing the point is cute, but a grown adult dismissing To Kill a Mockingbird like that? That's just embarrassing. Like sure, maybe they didn't have a teacher who made them sit with the uncomfortable parts, but come on. It's not homework when you're old enough to actually get it.
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