<p>…why?</p>
<p>It’s easier/faster than quoting someone.</p>
<p>Why are so many people bagging on Huck Finn? That book drew me in big time with its always-moving plot.</p>
<p>Also, Fahrenheit 451 is my favorite book of all time! I can understand how you’d find it difficult to understand if you read it before you had even started 7th grade though. Read it again now - I read it for the first time Sophomore year and loved it.</p>
<p>^^^^ I definitely agree: it’s so confusing</p>
<p>“Also, Fahrenheit 451 is my favorite book of all time! I can understand how you’d find it difficult to understand if you read it before you had even started 7th grade though. Read it again now - I read it for the first time Sophomore year and loved it.”</p>
<p>I found it confusing reading it in 9th grade, but I’m not an English person.</p>
<p>As for me, I remember reading it and just not understanding what was happening.</p>
<p>^^^^^ Because it’s even simpler and clearer to put just one</p>
<p>But if you just put one then people will think you’re referring to the person’s post right above you. The number of carets means the number of posts above yours… it doesn’t mean the person right above you if it has more than one caret.</p>
<p>@SLight: Honestly, I couldn’t stand the racism. I know that it’s not a racist book in the way that say, Heart of Darkness is, but both Huck and Samuel Clemens had grown up in such a way that they could not phrase even their proto-antiracist sentiments in any other language but that which faintly smelled of hate and prejudice. Think about the way Huck describes Jim’s love for his children. He says something like “I know it seems unnatural, but I think he loved his children as much as a white man.” It’s obvious that Huck means the best in saying that, but I couldn’t deal with having a protagonist who said “natural” when he meant “white” and “white” when he meant “good.” I couldn’t read it without feeling ill. It may not have even been the language with which he described black people alone. Faulkner uses disparaging terms enough and I still like him. I guess it was that Huck was our protagonist, our most modern man, our quintessential American boy and hero, and he was still so prejudiced and vile. It was the idea that I was to take Huck’s thoughts as progress.
I don’t like futuristic dystopian novels. The likes of 1984, the Handmaid’s Tale, and Fahrenheit 451 bore me, though I finished the first and last (Cat’s Cradle was okay though, and I read We by choice). But I hated Huck Finn.</p>
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<p>Except that some people do mean the immediate post.</p>
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<p>Oh. Then yes, that’s stupid and doesn’t make any sense.</p>
<p>Oh my god, it’s Millancad! 
Can you please sign my TI-89? I would never use it again after your hands grace it. :D</p>
<p>OMG btjunkie, you’re such an odd one.</p>
<p>I’m jeal that you have a TI-89.</p>
<p>So I actually read through all of the posts above me - and I do agree with most of them, but I don’t quite understand how people can just put “Shakespeare” down for overrated. I mean, I hated Romeo & Juliet (with the burning passion of a thousand suns), but Macbeth was okay…and Hamlet was awesome! P&P is way overrated though (even with the fact that I didn’t read this one in school). I really liked Steinbeck, Old Man and the Sea, The Great Gatsby, 1984 (LOVED THIS ONE), and Lord of the Flies. For me, Catcher in the Rye, Huck Finn, and To Kill a Mockingbird were way overrated though.</p>
<p>I actually think 1984 is overrated, come to think of it.</p>
<p>It’s talked about like it’s one of the greatest literary works of the 20th Century, but it’s message is kind of a superficial one when you think about it. It’s been considered far more eloquently and more in depth by Milton and Blake</p>
<p>It’s not odd being in awe from your posts, Millancad! They have changed my life. Thank you for your 858 recorded posts on CC and many many more on HSL. You will do big things when you get older.</p>
<p>;) Flattery will get you everywhere.</p>
<p>1984…overrated?..I beg to differ.</p>
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<p>You’re right! You’re always right! :)</p>
<p>i forgot to add that i find the catcher in the rye simple-ish & annoying.</p>
<p>did i mention that a girl in my HONORS english class last year asked the question, “is that a real job…a catcher in a rye field?”
-_-</p>
<p>“1984…overrated?..I beg to differ.”
samesies. the ending was absolutely chilling :]</p>
<p>what makes 1984 better than any or all of the following:</p>
<p>The Sound and the Fury/Absalom, Absalom/other Faulkner
All William Carlos Williams poetry
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock/The Waste Land
Pound’s Cantos
Ulysses/A Portrait…
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Metamorphosis
Most 20th Century art?</p>
<p>I even think I liked A Passage to India more, simply because 1984 is totally defined by its plot and has little else to offer</p>
<p>(not to be mean/rude, but I think it might be interesting to consider)</p>
<p>EDIT: I actually found Animal Farm’s ending to be more shocking, but all I remember about 1984 is that they didn’t want to discuss whatever they did</p>
<p>^Stupid freshman on HSL.</p>