gerberag@alien.topBtoBooks@metacritics.zone•Are there any modern books you think will become classics?English
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1 year agoThere is too much noise today. Sadly it will be “Harry Potter”.
There is too much noise today. Sadly it will be “Harry Potter”.
Not as fun as The Hobbit, not as mind-numbing as The Silmarrillion.
I liked them as much as Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever and they had more depth.
Not as fun as The Hobbit, not as mind-numbing as The Silmarrillion.
I liked them as much as Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever and they had more depth.
A Gun for Dinosaur
Maybe at the college level, otherwise they get handed an “approved” list which are usually older than the 1940’s when there were far fewer books being written, i.e. much less noise.
The newest thing we read in High School was Ordinary People, but the next newest after that was Grapes of Wrath.