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Sean O Donnell Sean Dec 12, 2020 09:07AM
Question for you all: Do many people here read the really old classics?

For example, books by authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, Emily Brontë, Frank Kafka, H.G. Wells, Fyodor dystovyeski, Joseph Conrad, Agatha Christie, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Mary Shelly, Mark Twain, Ayn Rand, Charlotte Brontë, Virginia Woolf?

Do you think these books still hold up today?
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Short answer: yes. I think most of those authors hold up these days.

Longer answer: I have trouble thinking of FSF as a "really old" classic.... I could, arguably, see a few on that list as "old" but I'd want to reach back to Shakespeare or at least pre-Civil War authors like, say, Nathaniel Hawthorne for that qualification. Opinions will vary, I'm sure.

Also, I don't think Ayn Rand or Agatha Christie count as "classic" authors. Well read, certainly, but not "classic" in a literary sense.
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