<p>^^ I concur. The so called “connection to humanity,” “literary analysis,” and “literary appreciation” of fictional literature are all overrated and serves little to no purpose in our lives. The world would revolve around as usual even if 99% of fictional literature were to be removed from existence.</p>
<p>@MaSaysImSpecial - I found Huck Finn to be incredibly enjoyable. The social commentary it provides is also very insightful for its time.</p>
<p>I hated reading up until 8th grade when I read…I think it was “The Outsiders.” Honestly, until you find a book or two you extremly like every book is going to suck. Once you do, then it’s hard not to get some entertainment out of a book.</p>
<p>I like how my school does Language Arts: while we’ve read the classics nearly every high schooler has read, we also have thrown in plenty of moddern books within both the actual curriculum and in the yearly summer reading assignment. In 9th grade, we even got to skype with the author of one of our books for a while. While I ultimatly prefer the older works (Particularly Fareignheit 451, The Sun Also Rises, Hamlet, 1984, and The Great Gatsby), its still good to have a variety of literature to read from nearly every era in american history.</p>
<p>If I wanted to go into Literary Eras in history, I’d take that course in college. A composition class aided by some mechanics is enough.</p>
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<p>Does this include math that axiomatically fails to reflect earthly reality?</p>
<p>Like non-Euclidean Geometry? Yeah, that’s lame too.</p>
<p>That’s (non-Euclidean Geometry) the only introduction to anything like that I’ve ever had, so I don’t know about anything else like that though.</p>
<p>non-Euclidean geometry I love.</p>
<p>Really? What do you know about it? I remember trying to learn about it a little bit in my Linear class and not really getting it.</p>