[Little Ray]

Dunno. Some “classics” are d@mn boring. I think I would pay money not to have read Dickens, Melville, or Tolstoy ever again. One Lit book I was using even managed to find a boring and unfunny Thurber story. I swear, sometimes it seems like the goal of literature classes is to make student hate to read...

And I LIKE reading.

[Oberon]

Dunno. Some “classics” are d@mn boring.

Or even worse, just plain painful to read.

If I ever force my children to suffer through Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, you can be certain it will be because they've done something heinous and terrible, and must atone.

[Borges]

What Dickens and Tolstoy did you read? It really doesn’t get any better than War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Unless you just don’t like long novels.