I'm talking about moby dick.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This is why other countries think America is stupid.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

agreed 100%

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Just because you can't understand them doesn't mean it's crap.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The Great Gatsby is considered an american classic but it's actually a pretty short book

by Anonymous 13 years ago

and a good one!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

isn't it? It's my outside reading book and I'm glad I chose it(:

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I read it for school and just loved it

by Anonymous 13 years ago

best book ever

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's not always crap, but whatever. I don't really want to read it, I pretty much know what it's about if it's that famous.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I agree with SGBF and Tater... it's really sad when people won't read anything that isn't trendy, or think reading great, classic literature is lame.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I love reading classics. It's just that a lot of the ones that are put up on a pedestal are pretty dull. Try reading the less famous works of an era and you'll see what I mean.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Jane Eyre

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's British.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Most boring book ever.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Was just about to say that until i saw you already did--HATE that book!!!!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Grapes of Wrath

by Anonymous 13 years ago

is a great british classic

by Anonymous 13 years ago

too bad you can't read books through tv or listening to your ipod huh dumbass. gosh people are so lazy i love reading, especially classics.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i enjoyed Of mice and men...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Most American classics I've seen are shorter than the YA novels I read. To Kill A Mokingbird was way shorter than Twilight and we all know which was better.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

you have to view these books as a product of the time period they were written in. it's hard to appreciate great literature thats old because young people these days aren't used to actually using their minds to decipher the written language. take uncle tom's cabin, for example. great american classic, fantastic piece of literature from the 19th century. yet people these days hate it because "it's 600 pages of crap." and by that they mean it doesn't have the cookie cutter "boy sees girl. boy falls for girl. trouble ensues. trouble resolved. happily ever after" plot. it has substance and dynamic characters far superior than that of, say, half the books written in the last 10 years (coughtwilightcough) it requires intellectual THOUGHT and EFFORT. that of which teens nowadays would rather not put forth. "ohhmygod this book is soooo lame. i fall asleep every time i try and read it. like srsly who chose this shit? whatever betch, i'm just gonna sparknote the shit out of it."

by Anonymous 13 years ago