Oh I read that in high school.

Decent book, but not my type per se.

seriously you read it in High school? I had to be turned on it it in a slavic lit class in 2009

yeah hehe, well - we read a lot of slavic books here

barely anything from the US - I think we did Poe at some point

And Hemingway

but that's about it

that is true, we read a lot of books by black women who can't fucking write like Toni Morrisson

Poe is good, Hemingway was a communist

never heard of her

ohhh she's the liberal's favorite author

Oh I love Poe, one of the few poets I really enjoy reading (not into poetry most of the time)

she wrote this piece of shit novel called "Beloved" which every american has to read until they understand that black women are the most powerful thing on earth

Hah

I read Poe's Tell Tale Heart and it scared the shit out of me, that was in junior high school

also there is a horrible book called "I know why the caged bird sings" by Maya Angelou with is just as bad

none of that here thankfully

i mean, just look at that title, doesn't it make you want to strangle the author with type writer ribbon?

we did things like "The Iliad", "Decameron", Shakespeare, Dostoyevski, Tolstoy, Goethe, etc...

yeah, it's pretty bad

goddamnit, that makes me mad

we read NONE of that in high school or my undergrad. i had to read it in a reading group I formed in grad school for Great Books from Europe

well....yeah...

you'd like our high schools and colleges a lot more I don't doubt

yea, i went to a US top high school, and the best high school in Texas that year, but we were overwhelmed with "diversity"

we had to read chinese poetry, and learn african tribal music. it was absurd

we had optional chinese poetry, I went once and never looked back

Hm, actually I think I used the wrong expression there

I mean, I never went again.

close enough, i knew what you meant. english is idiomatic so if you are kind of off we still understand the sentiment

Not that there isn't something to be said for far-east literature

I liked Hagakure

a good book about total dedication

but maybe that's shallow in comparison to European classics that I've never read

yea, i like some of it, but seriously do we have to read Vietnamese poetry at the expense of American and European writers? Especially if the class is 90% white?

It disconnects you from your own culture, much like I am

and leaves a void to be filled with indoctrination

there is a good book on Japanese short stories from the Feudal period called "five women who loved love" which i like until the last story, but yea there is quality lit coming out of some of those places

but does that make it more important than teaching white American students that they have a history and a culture and a people? I don't think so. Read Asian lit on your own time

Absolutely. When I was in high school I hated that we had to study Serbian history and Serbia literature 50% of the time, while we left only 50% to the rest of the world.

Now I appreciate it better.