Deleted
Deleted Member
@Deleted
Posts: 0
Likes:
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2017 16:42:59 GMT
Do you think its weird to mainly read novels that was written in the 18th and 19th century ?
I do that, Its not that i don`t read novels that was written in the 20th century or the 21st century. But i think at least 80% of the novels i read were written in the 18th and 19th century.
Is that weird ?
|
|
|
|
Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Sept 6, 2017 18:45:06 GMT
I think it's normal and entirely wireless.
|
|
bess1971s
Sophomore
@bess1971s
Posts: 399
Likes: 257
 
|
Post by bess1971s on Sept 7, 2017 14:12:45 GMT
I don't think it's weird. I like to escape to different time periods if to try and get a feel of what life in another time was like. I think favorite novels of most people have been set in past centuries.
|
|
|
|
Post by Nalkarj on Sept 7, 2017 15:00:35 GMT
Do you think its weird to mainly read novels that was written in the 18th and 19th century ? I do that, Its not that i don`t read novels that was written in the 20th century or the 21st century. But i think at least 80% of the novels i read were written in the 18th and 19th century. Is that weird ? What exactly does "weird" mean in this context? Out-of-the-norm? I suppose it would be a yes, then, as the norm nowadays is so cut-off from history or even basic common sense. If so, then I'm not just "weird"--I'd be considered a lunatic by the popular wisdom of our day. And I wear such "lunacy" as a badge of honor. As Chesterton put it, tradition is the democracy of the dead--the received wisdom of our ancestors--and they may know more than we snobbish moderns can believe. Is what you and I do, or read, or watch (if you like "old movies"), "weird," then? Aye, by the chronologically snobbish standards of the day--but not in the face of time and history, and ultimately they are the better judges. |
|
|
|
Post by lunda2222 on Sept 7, 2017 15:49:09 GMT
To each his own.
I suspect you know this saying: Smak og behag kan ikke diskuteres.
|
|
|
|
Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 7, 2017 15:53:23 GMT
Feologild Oakes Not weird. Weird would be reading books like those and looking down on anyone who doesn't enjoy them Now THAT is weird.
and I agree with what that Nalkarj guy said !
|
|
|
|
Post by bonerxmas on Sept 7, 2017 16:10:56 GMT
that is when the best novels were written, most twentieth century novelists lacked that creative energy, so they were either too derivative or else eccentric
|
|
|
|
Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 7, 2017 16:14:30 GMT
that is when the best novels were written, most twentieth century novelists lacked that creative energy, so they were either too derivative or else eccentric BUT it's like that old joke that history classes used to be easier because there was less history to learn about. 18th century (or earlier) writers were possibly being "derivative" of novels we no longer even know about. |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
@Deleted
Posts: 0
Likes:
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2017 22:01:14 GMT
To each his own. I suspect you know this saying: Smak og behag kan ikke diskuteres. Jeg tror faktisk at jeg aldri har hørt det uttrykket. Jeg har hørt Smak og behag kan diskuteres. Men ikke Smak og behag kan ikke diskuteres. |
|
|
|
Post by Nalkarj on Sept 7, 2017 22:09:10 GMT
that is when the best novels were written, most twentieth century novelists lacked that creative energy, so they were either too derivative or else eccentric I adore the classics, as well as a good deal of literature written in the 18th and 19th centuries, but this is a strange statement. "Too derivative"? Of whom, exactly? "Too eccentric"? Well, what does "eccentric" mean in this context? Many of my favorite writers are 20th century novelists. How can one cavalierly brush aside a century that gave us Fitzgerald, Hemingway, [Harper] Lee, Lewis, Chesterton, Orwell, Tolkien, Wodehouse, Amis, Borges, Calvino, and thousands of others? Not to mention the myriad achievements in poetry, art, cinema, music... Apologies, but in a way this seems just another kind of chronological snobbery. I like books, movies, music, art, etc., from whatever era, as long as it's good (a subjective judgment, of course, but the point stands). |
|
|
|
Post by General Kenobi on Sept 10, 2017 0:22:40 GMT
No. But then I do that myself.
|
|
