<p>lol btjunkie get off here. you’re class of 2025! >:O</p>
<p>Haha Class of 2025, when did I ever say that freshman?</p>
<p>lol i said it, and Millancad never corrected it, so it must be true</p>
<p>I like your logic, Maple.</p>
<p>Haha it must be true then if Millancad (Jesus Jr.) didn’t correct it :D</p>
<p>Damn I’m smart to be part of Class of 2025 and be in Multivariable Calculus!</p>
<p>you’re a prodigy :O</p>
<p>^^ It’s Thomist nominalism :b</p>
<p>(*** is nominalism?? someone please tell me</p>
<p>here’s what I got from wikipedia -
abstract things don’t exist, they are simply figments of our imagination</p>
<p>examples: nothing 
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<p>:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o</p>
<p>I have no idea what’s going on. Why am I Jesus Jr.?</p>
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<p>Heart of Darkness was racist? That’s news to me.</p>
<p>I now see why I bombed that lit test awhile ago.
SparkNotes didn’t mention that, or if they did, I probably didn’t feel like being bother to read it. Those summaries are almost as long as the book.</p>
<p>Sorry to go off on a tangent, but I just want to take a moment to appreciate finally starting a legitimate thread. w00t!</p>
<p>Yea, I don’t get how, but there has been a saturation of classic future dystopian novels. You would think that would be a niche thing but if you look through the classics, there are a bunch. After a while you just expect people to suck, which I guess is the point.</p>
<p>i didn’t know that book was racist either. then again i also don’t remember much about it. i havent read it recently.</p>
<p>I’m a Jane Austen fan, but Wuthering Heights is one of my favorite books. True, Pride & Prejudice is significantly more cheerful, but Emily’s WH is more…passionate. Although I do agree with everyone about the Catherine’s. Least favorite characters from the book.</p>
<p>I know this thread is about OVERrated books, but I really liked Great Expectations too. But almost everyone I know hated it. I don’t think Dickens is overrated :/</p>
<p>The Old Man and the Sea. I love simple, Hemingway, but that book made me want to sail out into the ocean myself and invite a few sharks overboard for dinner. Don’t even get me started on William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.</p>
<p>Congrats on getting accepted to Somewhere University blissfulting. It’s a great achievement.</p>
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Is it not racist? I’ve heard it was, but I’ve never read it. Sorry if it isn’t.</p>
<p>I don’t know, that’s I asked. All I remember about that book is that was physically painful to read.
Even the SparkNotes for it were painful to read.</p>
<p>Oh, whew, if Platts Sparks then I can too. :o Right?</p>
<p>I remember trying to read Tom Sawyer in seventh grade and never being able to get past the first page. Come to think of it, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was horrifically boring as well. It seems that all books with the atrocious un-understandable accent written into them just kills the book.</p>
<p>Eh, yeah, Lord of the Flies was waaay better after I read the SparkNotes for it. 
Scarlet Letter sucked either way.</p>
<p>But I actually enjoyed Steinbeck’s Pearl, Huck Finn, Shakespeare…</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness is about the dehumanizing influence of Economic Imperialism. The Africans in the story are portrayed in a rather racist way, but that’s kinda the point. It was a rather progressive book IIRC, though like Uncle Tom’s Cabin, it reads a little differently now.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s that bad. If you read it carefully, the 2nd half of the book is very suspenseful, and it’s not a coincidence that the movie based on it is one of the best ever.</p>
<p>Ishi. That book is just…</p>
<p>I’m with everyone who said Pride and Prejudice…it was decent, but nothing great or anything.
I also was not a huge fan of A Tale of Two Cities…
There are more, but that’s just of the top of my head.</p>
<p>I have to respectfully disagree with To Kill a Mockingbird and anything by Shakespeare, but that’s just my opinion.</p>
<p>I have to read the first 300 pages of Crime in Punishment in a day to catch up with my lit class…
The monologue never friggin ends.</p>
<p>The first couple of chapters of Heart of Darkness goes on and on about description. Painful.</p>