false 735606 M Lehi, UT 01/2008 08/2009 15 134 117 true 5731536 read 5 true 1489635 currently-reading 12 true 1489634 to-read 43 false 1873738 pop-lit 16 false 1945525 classics 14 false 1945540 non-fiction 5 false 2248306 historical-fiction 3 false 2248294 business-books 2 false 1873733 sports-books The Tipping Point (Paperback) by Malcolm Gladwell]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22350727 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255576535s/2612.jpg 735606 Adam http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1209828867p2/735606.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/735606-adam Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:39:32 -0800 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #2) by C.S. Lewis]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37323171 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171472410s/100915.jpg 735606 Adam http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1209828867p2/735606.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/735606-adam Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:38:14 -0800 How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback) by Dale Carnegie]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36891472 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165481451s/4865.jpg 735606 Adam http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1209828867p2/735606.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/735606-adam Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:54:11 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11478967 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255666245s/320.jpg 735606 Adam http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1209828867p2/735606.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/735606-adam Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:17:01 -0700
That said, you make my original point for me. I don't see the logic in forcing yourself to get through a book. If you have to "take steps early on" to "remedy" your reading experience, I see that as an utter waste of time. You clearly did not and were rewarded with an "authentic reader response." You are certainly welcome to that viewpoint and I'm not trying to say otherwise.

Some books are tougher than others sure, and I am not trying to say all good literature is fluff. I'm simply making the point that when you have to suspend your disbelief so completely and start creating labels like "magical realism," that is the stuff best left to ivory tower academics who like to sit around and debate the finer points.

To say that we cannot discuss both if the book is subjectively "good" and if it is a "classic" at the same time strikes me as double speak. Only in art and literature could that idea find voice. In life, those ideas, suggestions, projects, inventions, technologies, etc that are not good are discarded. If it isn't good, it isn't a classic. You stated at the end of your post that you think it is good, clearly many people agree with you. I make the point that it isn't good, clearly many people agree with me. A debate certainly exists and I'm quite sure we won't resolve it here.

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