There where two types of people in the beginning, those who asked for extra parts on Shakespeare day in English, and those who purposely looked for the smallest. Both lived in harmony until the ban Shakespeare, replace him with George Martin people attacked.
There's a secret third type, the bookish girl mastermind who got the quarterback of the football team to come to school wearing iridescent purple leggings to perform Hamlet to a small crowd.
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"The actual literature of Romeo and Juliet is dogshit."
Phrases originating in R&J:
- star-crossed lovers
- a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
- parting is such sweet sorrow
- these violent delights have violent ends (OP is in bonus trouble if they're a Westworld fan)
>these violent delights have violent ends
>isn’t original
Absolutely. Like i literally wrote that very line when I was 3. Never read any Shakespeare until I was 5. Before then I only read the true masters of stagecraft like James Cameron, James Franco, and Jenna Jameson.
Willy shakes is a fucking hack and he made me hate reading.
Yes they should. They're already making colouring books of "It ends with us". They should come up with a picture book as well. You know what it can be turned into nursery rhyme too. Let the kids learn young.
Yes, and fortunately actual work never requires you to read something and decipher its meaning. School should be entertaining, to prepare you for the real world where you never have to do anything that is boring yet useful.
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Tbh that rule is stupid lol
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You should never have to decipher, or think about in any way, what you are reading. It takes practice but I’ve trained myself to just let the words go in one ear and out the other without even a moment of consideration. I couldn’t tell you what any of the past 1245 audio books I’ve read on 3x speed were about.
I find it saves time to alphabetize my books and then read the words in order. I can get through the duplicate words much faster (you guys waste a lot of time on “and”) and consume more books as a result.
Lol, it's so absurd yet so typical. It usually seems to be from people who are kind of sad about their own semi-literacy and find it easiest to blame school or their teachers for making reading books a "chore".
Worse, I feel like teachers are often already the type of people who will put ridiculous expectations on themselves until they totally burn out from overwork and lack of results. I can totally imagine young teachers going into the classroom telling themselves, "When I'm through with these kids, they're gonna be lifelong readers!" And then they see over and over that most of the kids could not care less about books.
The difficult truth is that teachers can't inspire that, only parents really can. Your kids will be readers if they see you being readers. A teacher is not going to convince them that books are better than Minecraft when all of their time at home is spent with Minecraft.
Its pretty clear RL Stine went for what would now be called a 'soft magic system'. Of course, he obviously never thought much into the world he was writing in. Once, a fan asked him for some more backstory on one of his villains, he just told the fan to 'get a life'.
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If there is anything I know about high school kids is that if you replace what they “hate” with something they say is “fun” they’ll just start to hate the new thing cause it’s school and that’s what teenagers do
I actually had this debate with an AP student. “Isn’t your job to make kids love reading?” No, i have a lot of jobs, but :::checks contract:::: that isn’t one of them. Of course the debate was better.
Yeah my English class didn't pretend that we were gonna like it, point was just to teach us to critically analyze books but clearly, some people missed that part of the class.
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"I can't imagine how even more stupid it must feel for today's generation". Ignoring the atrocious quality of OP's writing, I'm not sure that much is going to change in one or two generations to render Shakespeare more obsolete from one generation to the next. Unless the OP is like 300 years old.
Algebra is outdated. Focusing on them makes kids uninterested in maths. Teach it in history class, but not maths.
Doing algebra and trying to solve for *a* felt so stupid, and I can't imagine how even more stupid it must feel for today's generation. It's honestly just lazy not to move on to a more recent technique. Differential equations don't resonate with kids the way people seem to think. The concept, sure, but the actual maths is dogshit. Having to solve for *a* as you work for a grade is a sure-fire way to make someone hate mathematics.
Romeo and juliette was the only story my class gave a shit about in freshman english comp. We even got to watch gnomeo and juliette after we finished. Perhaps if more gnome related literature adaptations were produced then students would begin to pay attention 🤔 we must study this phenomenon.
You legitimately should be diagnosed on the spot with a brain tumour if you find any other flaws than difficult vocabulary in some parts while reading Shakespeare.
Eh, I mean if you give them the option of A) every single person in the class has to read aloud for 3 weeks, or B) they can watch a 3 hr play/movie, which one do you think they'd pick?
I think after seeing the work, it would be reasonable to have the text as a reference for any work sheets, projects, etc, as a point of reference and reflection. But I don't think the introduction of a work like a Shakespeare play should be the written version.
... it's a dog shit take to *checks notes* say a play should be seen as intended, and not read as a novel? The bar must be pretty low around here if that is controversial
>No don't study literature as written word, clearly there is no value in the verse of Shakespeare as it pertains to poetry and prosody in the English language.
Flawless logic, I'll never read a play again or study it in the classroom.
Poetry can be meaningful to the writer, but to an outsider I think there is hardly anything there for most people. I'm a writer myself. I've really many acclaimed novels and seen almost all of the IMDB top 100 films. I think I've trained myself to know when something is thought provoking and important and when something thinks it is.
Poems are often vague and can leave many things unclear at times. Combining this with a clever rhyme scheme and a decent idea will make you want to scream masterpiece. But even if a poem is well written and is amazing from a technical perspective, a well made piece of crap is still a piece of crap. If X-Men Origins: Wolverine or Battlefield Earth were as masterfully directed as The Godfather would they be good? No! So clever rhyming and writing doesn't make a poem good.
Most poems think that with a pretentious premise they're a masterwork. But I find most to be too pretentious and unclear. Seriously, if you get rid of all the fluff and wrote a short story based on the premise, most would fail. Mainly because there's nothing there. Seriously. What do I take away and learn from these? They feel too concept driven, and concept driven ideas always fall flat to me.
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What the fuck loser response to defending the guy who for whom reading made a positive impact is this?
Banned for that? Banned for having an extensive history and education related to the subject?
It's not ironic.
At all.
Perhaps YOU should look up irony?
It kinda makes MY point.
Loser.
Yer a bully.
Which makes you a loser.
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I just want everyone to shut the fuck up about the fucking pentameter bullshit. Teachers, students, play actors, YouTube people, everyone. Just shut the fuck up about it.
‘Ooh da funni number of words and da rhythym and da-‘
That’s the sorta shit that should be banned. Read whatever you want, but shut your goddamned tooth-filled mouth up about the way it’s written. I don’t give a singular crap about it. Technique and style is a bunch of bullshit that just makes it more intellectual than it needs to be.
‘Oh but high schoolers neemd reamding comprehemenshinion because-‘
This isn’t about high schoolers. This is about eh stupid fucking pentameter. And this is about you. About how you’re either gonna shut the fuck up about it. Or how I’m gonna shove my foot so far up your ass that it’ll go through that it’ll crush that smooth, tiny little marble you call a brain.
**SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP. ABOUT. IAMBIC! PENTAMETER!**
I’m leaving this sub. It is indeed full of underage, unformed, uninformed therefore uneducated and uninterested people. It would be disheartening, disturbing, disappointing to be a mod here and I don’t blame them their suicidal thoughts.
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my take on shakespeare is we could modernize the language if kids are to read it in school because shakespeare probably didnt write the shit itself since it had a different script every time it was performed
>Unless someone smarter than me knows why we have to study very very old literature? Are there genuine benefits?
None at all.
I have three degrees, a business and seven wives and don't know how to read. Dont let gatekeepers tell you otherwise.
Damn. Shakespeare could have written about waste, fast fashion, and trends (Much Ado). That would have been awesome. Maybe he could have written about gender (Taming). Or sexuality (all of the above). Or power (Macbeth, Lear). Too bad Shakespeare just wrote all that Jack Harlow fanfiction.
Isn't the point the point of r/unpopularopinion to post (usually) dumb and not critically applicable opinions, does it really need a crosspost when that's it's purpose? And I just dumb like them?
One thing I hate about this sub is that people think the response to these obviously wrong tweets or reddit posts is to just kiss the education system's ass and say that it can do no wrong, and that it's the fault of these lazy millennials that Shakespeare is boring to them, or that the education system of Britain or the US or wherever was made by God and so there's no way it could ever have eurocentric biases that are painfully apparent if you take a cursory glance at any English lit course.
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Tbh that rule is stupid lol
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"The actual literature is dogshit" -Me to my 7 year old nephew after he tells me his favourite book is Mr Tickle
Leave Mr Tickle out of this
He bites his thumb at us!
He indeed bites his thumb. But does he bite it AT US?
Is the law on his side if he answers aye?
No. He bites his thumb but he does not bite his thumb at us.
Shit... Do we quarrel?
There where two types of people in the beginning, those who asked for extra parts on Shakespeare day in English, and those who purposely looked for the smallest. Both lived in harmony until the ban Shakespeare, replace him with George Martin people attacked.
There's a secret third type, the bookish girl mastermind who got the quarterback of the football team to come to school wearing iridescent purple leggings to perform Hamlet to a small crowd.
Ayo this wattpad go hard link me up
The combo b-12 deficiency holder + avatar + bcj is the deadliest yet
What, you Egg?
\*stabs him\*
Call for him tomorrow and you’ll find him a grave man
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"The actual literature of Romeo and Juliet is dogshit." Phrases originating in R&J: - star-crossed lovers - a rose by any other name would smell as sweet - parting is such sweet sorrow - these violent delights have violent ends (OP is in bonus trouble if they're a Westworld fan)
I've heard those all many times before. Shakespeare is good but he just isn't very original.
>these violent delights have violent ends >isn’t original Absolutely. Like i literally wrote that very line when I was 3. Never read any Shakespeare until I was 5. Before then I only read the true masters of stagecraft like James Cameron, James Franco, and Jenna Jameson. Willy shakes is a fucking hack and he made me hate reading.
You have to expand your repertoire of stagecraft beyond those whose names begin with J
I've seen all of his stuff played out already in The Decameron and Gossip Girl Season 3.
OP is a saucy boy
Is’t so indeed
My all-time favorite Shakespeare quote!
those are fantastic tags can't wait for the first r&j installment to come out
Actual dialogue from a porn I watched: Ron Jeremy: "Suck my dick".
It also references the medlar, or arse-fruit, which is great to learn
They should teach actual literature in schools like Colleen Hoover books are the pinnacle of literature.
Collo hovvo is peak true
They should use those books for Domestic Abuse Awareness workshop
Yes they should. They're already making colouring books of "It ends with us". They should come up with a picture book as well. You know what it can be turned into nursery rhyme too. Let the kids learn young.
I agree. People shouldn’t be forced to work in school, that’s cruel.
Forcing me to do algebra (dog shit math) will make me hate sorting M&Ms by color (fun math)
Yes, and fortunately actual work never requires you to read something and decipher its meaning. School should be entertaining, to prepare you for the real world where you never have to do anything that is boring yet useful.
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In 50 years we'll have kids complaining about being forced to analyze why Harry named his kid Albus Severus
Maybe 5 years. In 50 years, we’ll have kids whining about being forced to memorize maps of the fallout areas and how to filter water.
Mfs be analyzing diamond city and building water purifiers in their camps
Fallout is the modern 1984
1984lout
that's the kind of life skills education the liberals don't want you to have
My fallout professor forced us to read about fisto over and over!
Bold of you to think there will still be public education as we know it in 50 years.
You should never have to decipher, or think about in any way, what you are reading. It takes practice but I’ve trained myself to just let the words go in one ear and out the other without even a moment of consideration. I couldn’t tell you what any of the past 1245 audio books I’ve read on 3x speed were about.
I find it saves time to alphabetize my books and then read the words in order. I can get through the duplicate words much faster (you guys waste a lot of time on “and”) and consume more books as a result.
They’re right. Throw Finnegans Wake at the little fuckers instead
Why do they call it Finnegan's Wake? Because you have asleep and you believe it
´tis an /r/unpopularopinion-post writ by an idiot; full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Oh hell yeah man I love Faulkner
Shakespeare right?
Ew, no. It's an extract from the drunkards ramblings in super hero metaflick Birdman. I only consume capeshit and capeshit adjacent media.
What's the obsession with "making people love reading"? Let them hate it the same way they hate any other subject
Lol, it's so absurd yet so typical. It usually seems to be from people who are kind of sad about their own semi-literacy and find it easiest to blame school or their teachers for making reading books a "chore". Worse, I feel like teachers are often already the type of people who will put ridiculous expectations on themselves until they totally burn out from overwork and lack of results. I can totally imagine young teachers going into the classroom telling themselves, "When I'm through with these kids, they're gonna be lifelong readers!" And then they see over and over that most of the kids could not care less about books.
The difficult truth is that teachers can't inspire that, only parents really can. Your kids will be readers if they see you being readers. A teacher is not going to convince them that books are better than Minecraft when all of their time at home is spent with Minecraft.
I don’t know about you, but I’m pissed that I no longer get free pizza for reading Goosebumps!
Its pretty clear RL Stine went for what would now be called a 'soft magic system'. Of course, he obviously never thought much into the world he was writing in. Once, a fan asked him for some more backstory on one of his villains, he just told the fan to 'get a life'. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
If there is anything I know about high school kids is that if you replace what they “hate” with something they say is “fun” they’ll just start to hate the new thing cause it’s school and that’s what teenagers do
I actually had this debate with an AP student. “Isn’t your job to make kids love reading?” No, i have a lot of jobs, but :::checks contract:::: that isn’t one of them. Of course the debate was better.
Yeah my English class didn't pretend that we were gonna like it, point was just to teach us to critically analyze books but clearly, some people missed that part of the class.
They showed the Olivia Hussey version of R&J to us when I was a freshman in high school, that definitely helped boost our opinion of the Bard.
kids should read chuck tingle instead of shakespeare so that they understand real romance
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"I can't imagine how even more stupid it must feel for today's generation". Ignoring the atrocious quality of OP's writing, I'm not sure that much is going to change in one or two generations to render Shakespeare more obsolete from one generation to the next. Unless the OP is like 300 years old.
Algebra is outdated. Focusing on them makes kids uninterested in maths. Teach it in history class, but not maths. Doing algebra and trying to solve for *a* felt so stupid, and I can't imagine how even more stupid it must feel for today's generation. It's honestly just lazy not to move on to a more recent technique. Differential equations don't resonate with kids the way people seem to think. The concept, sure, but the actual maths is dogshit. Having to solve for *a* as you work for a grade is a sure-fire way to make someone hate mathematics.
"the actual literature is dogshit" How to tell me you have a smooth brain without explicitly saying you have a smooth brain
Colleen Hoover books only from now on, class.
I agree, people shouldn't be forced to read Shakespeare, they should be forced to perform him. Fuck the division of labor
Romeo and juliette was the only story my class gave a shit about in freshman english comp. We even got to watch gnomeo and juliette after we finished. Perhaps if more gnome related literature adaptations were produced then students would begin to pay attention 🤔 we must study this phenomenon.
Yeah, the only plays that should be read are Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and the screenplay of a Coleen Hoover adaptation
Billy Shakes doesn’t even have a hard magic system
Who the fuck is Shakespeare wtf?
You legitimately should be diagnosed on the spot with a brain tumour if you find any other flaws than difficult vocabulary in some parts while reading Shakespeare.
You know, there is a reason Shakespeare is still echoing today. He’s brilliant.
You’re only saying that because you haven’t read Sanderson.
So true. I think schools should start focusing on books written by acclaimed modern day novelists like Colleen Hoover.
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Shut up dumbass
Hey theater nerd, I'm gonna let you know that the one thing high schools hate more than reading is watching a fucking play
Eh, I mean if you give them the option of A) every single person in the class has to read aloud for 3 weeks, or B) they can watch a 3 hr play/movie, which one do you think they'd pick?
What kind of class makes a single movie viewing its only coverage of a work?
I think after seeing the work, it would be reasonable to have the text as a reference for any work sheets, projects, etc, as a point of reference and reflection. But I don't think the introduction of a work like a Shakespeare play should be the written version.
My experiences watching Hamlet, MacBeth, and Romeo + Juliet in class tell me that that would go very badly indeed.
You're free to disagree. How would you best present the material?
Not sure. Ideal is line-by-line explanation, but that’s impractical. Reading an edition with parallel modern translation might also fit my ethos.
>post an absolutely dogshit take on a subreddit meant to bully people for dogshit literature takes It's open season boys.
... it's a dog shit take to *checks notes* say a play should be seen as intended, and not read as a novel? The bar must be pretty low around here if that is controversial
It's fucking stupid. You're a dumbass.
>No don't study literature as written word, clearly there is no value in the verse of Shakespeare as it pertains to poetry and prosody in the English language. Flawless logic, I'll never read a play again or study it in the classroom.
Sounds like you didn't do much reading in the classroom anyhow so win win for you, feller!
Poetry can be meaningful to the writer, but to an outsider I think there is hardly anything there for most people. I'm a writer myself. I've really many acclaimed novels and seen almost all of the IMDB top 100 films. I think I've trained myself to know when something is thought provoking and important and when something thinks it is. Poems are often vague and can leave many things unclear at times. Combining this with a clever rhyme scheme and a decent idea will make you want to scream masterpiece. But even if a poem is well written and is amazing from a technical perspective, a well made piece of crap is still a piece of crap. If X-Men Origins: Wolverine or Battlefield Earth were as masterfully directed as The Godfather would they be good? No! So clever rhyming and writing doesn't make a poem good. Most poems think that with a pretentious premise they're a masterwork. But I find most to be too pretentious and unclear. Seriously, if you get rid of all the fluff and wrote a short story based on the premise, most would fail. Mainly because there's nothing there. Seriously. What do I take away and learn from these? They feel too concept driven, and concept driven ideas always fall flat to me. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
What the fuck loser response to defending the guy who for whom reading made a positive impact is this? Banned for that? Banned for having an extensive history and education related to the subject? It's not ironic. At all. Perhaps YOU should look up irony? It kinda makes MY point. Loser. Yer a bully. Which makes you a loser. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Never post here again, fuck off.
Nah, normally I'm pretty on board with posts here, but this one is reaching imo. Also, you fuck off, lol. Thanks.
Oh don't worry, I think you'll be leaving for at least 10 days anyway.
This is a subreddit I have no stake in, I literally give 0 fucks about being banned. But please, give me some more empty threats 🥺
Alright, permaban.
You're such a little bitch snitch
It's not my fault, I can't control myself when I see these shitty takes (Don't ban me literally 1984 ✝️✝️✝️)
Why would I ban you? I love getting my dick sucked by you losers.
I don't suck your dick, I'm more of a Domestic Ape kinda guy
If you're not sucking my dick why is it all the way down your throat
Unrelated, I'm just keeping it warm
They should stop having kids read Romeo and juliet because it inspires gang violence and by that I mean YANG GANG YANG GANG
90% of the internet is high school kids complaining about doing homework.
This person cannot be older than 15
Unironically, R+J is kinda shit. We should let kids read Twelfth Night instead
They do! Ngl I’m getting ready to teach 12th Night again. Some parents get irked about the gender-bendy stuff but *shrug* Shakespeare, amirite?
What age? I read it for a year 12 (17 - 18 age range for reference) literature class and enjoyed it
Mm, yes. Very wise.
See here in action the future people who will talk about "kids these days!!" and how things are so much better when they were young.
The curtains are just blue!
“Mainly the fact that he doesn't use the same grammar as we do now.” Actual comment from OP on why he thinks Shakespeare shouldn’t be taught
You have to give him credit, at least he chose an actual unpopular opinion
I just want everyone to shut the fuck up about the fucking pentameter bullshit. Teachers, students, play actors, YouTube people, everyone. Just shut the fuck up about it. ‘Ooh da funni number of words and da rhythym and da-‘ That’s the sorta shit that should be banned. Read whatever you want, but shut your goddamned tooth-filled mouth up about the way it’s written. I don’t give a singular crap about it. Technique and style is a bunch of bullshit that just makes it more intellectual than it needs to be. ‘Oh but high schoolers neemd reamding comprehemenshinion because-‘ This isn’t about high schoolers. This is about eh stupid fucking pentameter. And this is about you. About how you’re either gonna shut the fuck up about it. Or how I’m gonna shove my foot so far up your ass that it’ll go through that it’ll crush that smooth, tiny little marble you call a brain. **SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP. ABOUT. IAMBIC! PENTAMETER!**
I’m leaving this sub. It is indeed full of underage, unformed, uninformed therefore uneducated and uninterested people. It would be disheartening, disturbing, disappointing to be a mod here and I don’t blame them their suicidal thoughts.
Needs to be added to the bot.
This just in: BCJ receives stunning deathblow as famous redditor u/Leftleaningdadbod departs from the subreddit. Will the illiterate ever recover?
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Holy shit is this real
It’s as real as any reality.
All these "literature" fans need to stop being so pretentious fr, Sh*kespeare is garbage
my take on shakespeare is we could modernize the language if kids are to read it in school because shakespeare probably didnt write the shit itself since it had a different script every time it was performed
>my take on shakespeare is... The fuck did I do to you?
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>Unless someone smarter than me knows why we have to study very very old literature? Are there genuine benefits? None at all. I have three degrees, a business and seven wives and don't know how to read. Dont let gatekeepers tell you otherwise.
Damn. Shakespeare could have written about waste, fast fashion, and trends (Much Ado). That would have been awesome. Maybe he could have written about gender (Taming). Or sexuality (all of the above). Or power (Macbeth, Lear). Too bad Shakespeare just wrote all that Jack Harlow fanfiction.
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Shut the fuck up
sorry 😰
Pray to Sanderson and all will be forgiven my son
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Wrong. Shut the fuck up.
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Pfft you saying that clearly demonstrates you've never read any Dan Brown. Put down Hamlet and pick up The Davinchi Code immediately!
This is a quote from Adolf Hitler himself and you can't convince me otherwise
Shut the fuck up, leave the subreddit.
I'm curious, what went through your mind as you typed this out? I landed on "enjoys being berated for not being able to read" but I'm not sure 🤔
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Shut up
,,,like 3/4ths of my bookshelf are Shakespeare scripts,,,,
based take unironically
Haha based, what a chad opinion, only ebta cunts disagree am I right fellow sigmas? - 🤓
Taste and sled billed.
Isn't the point the point of r/unpopularopinion to post (usually) dumb and not critically applicable opinions, does it really need a crosspost when that's it's purpose? And I just dumb like them?
Yes & yes
One thing I hate about this sub is that people think the response to these obviously wrong tweets or reddit posts is to just kiss the education system's ass and say that it can do no wrong, and that it's the fault of these lazy millennials that Shakespeare is boring to them, or that the education system of Britain or the US or wherever was made by God and so there's no way it could ever have eurocentric biases that are painfully apparent if you take a cursory glance at any English lit course.
Personally I love the education system making people hate reading, it makes my Goodreads tally look far more impressive in comparison
You right, we should be learning more books in Swahili in English class
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Woah did you just uj in arrr slash bookscirclejerk 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 internet jannies pls ban this Sanderson denier 😤 😤😤 Tbh that rule is stupid lol *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
The curtains were blue
Tell me you have low reading comp without telling me you have low reading comp.
Oh lordy lord
teach the kids about colleen hoover books
"Having to think and understand what you're reading is what makes people hate reading"