It's also weird to think about that because, personally, I haven't read that many books from this era that I've been very fond of. To think that there might be one worth studying in schools 100 years from now is strange. It makes me wonder, which book will be good enough to become famous?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The culture has changed, so a representation of Shakespeare's time may have been a play, but a representation of our culture may be the Da Vinci Code (and the series) or Harry Potter or something. Oh shit... what if it's Twilight?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

They wouldn't read Harry potter or twilight or any other series. Have you ever read a series in school?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yes. The Messenger series.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

WE read one book in a trilogy for literature. And I'm sure if Shakespeare wrote in series, we would have. Much of today's casual reading is series based, so you would have to read series if you wanted to study us properly.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

In our middle school, they created a whole system where they would start off with the 6th graders reading Gathering Blue, the 7th graders would read the Giver, and then 8th graders would read the Messenger. It worked out pretty well.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Is that a series? because I've only read The Giver, and it seemed to have a lot of unexplained stuff.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It's supposed to be a trilogy but the last book sort of wraps up everything up nicely.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

But why does the main character keep calling everyone dude? And telling people "hit me up"? and why does he say it's a "cool story bro" when he obviously doesn't think it's a cool story?!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Please write a 2-4 page paper on this prompt, giving clear citations while explaining the symbolism behind the hipster wearing glasses without lenses in them.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

English teachers today: "Now, let us think about why Shakespeare may have represented his characters in this way." Class: *groan* English teachers of the future: "Now, let us think about how the relationship between Edward, Bella, and Jacob can progress the theme of the story>" Class: "Oh, please, no!" *run out of room*

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I doubt Twilight will be remembered that long. Harry Potter, maybe. But even then that's kind of pressing it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It would have to be a book that was meaningful, though. None of this teen fiction crap (unless it's John Green)

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Like one of Chuck Palahniuk's books?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yes! Could definitely see one of his being taught in schools

by Anonymous 11 years ago

@eastcoast I think if any modern teen book were to become a classic, it would be either The Fault in Our Stars or Paper Towns.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Chuck Palahniuk? God forbid. The man relies on garnering readership by trying to shock his audience through writing scenarios that he considers taboo, but it gets stale when you realize that he his sloppy, disjointed prose was probably written in the span of a week exclusively at two in the morning. His books are like the literary equivalent of 'The Human Centipede'. You hear that there's something really gross and insane and ~never done before~ so your automatic assumption is that it's going to blow your mind, but when you finally get around to delving into it you realize that it's full of inaccuracies and poor characterization.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Then it sounds perfect for school. Enough to keep the student's attention. Chuck states at the end of Fight Club that he doesn't claim to be the first person to think of any of the stuff he writes about.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

You think that's perfect for school? Why? I'm genuinely curious, now. What literary value do you honestly think people get out of Palahniuk's work? What do you think students would learn from his books?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I was saying it sounds perfect for school according to your argument.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

If you want to show your students an example of how not to write, I suppose it could be decent for school, yes.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

"Now class, who can tell me why Sam likes green eggs and ham?"

by Anonymous 11 years ago

If it ends up being 50 Shades of Gray... just...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'd go to that class just to hear them thematically explain bondage.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I can imagine Cormac McCarthy's work being taught as classics. They practically already ARE.

by Anonymous 11 years ago