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The Hindsight Challenge
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Who gets to decide which classics have held up? Heh
Also I thought this thread was going to be about books you like more in hindsight than when you initially finished them.
I agree with Trike. I like this plan... even if I have no idea how we would validate our choices.
(This is the real purpose of the Trike vs Dara scorecard. We're going to choose the classics and take over in 2020. )
Not that long ago someone told me that they prefered to read "Classics", because older books were more meaningful. Shortly afterwards he mentioned that he was talking about "old books, like from the 80s".
He meant the 1980s.
Definitions may vary.
William wrote: "He meant the 1980s. ..."80s?? 60s and 50s were even better!
2020...I don’t make plans 2 years in advance!
I'd love to read only older books since I generally prefer them to newer but I think I'm probably in the minority in this group. You'd certainly get a lot of complaints about too few female characters and authors and lack of racial diversity.
So many lists for T vs D to scour and choose fromTop 10 Classic (Pre-20th Century) Science Fiction & Fantasy
http://igp-scifi.com/2011/10/top-10-c...
Phil wrote: "I'd love to read only older books since I generally prefer them to newer but I think I'm probably in the minority in this group. You'd certainly get a lot of complaints about too few female charact..."Was about to make a flip remark about reading "Friday" or other Heinlein with idealized female characters, but then started to think. Just off the top of my head:
* Dragonflight: Female narrator, female author. And dragons!
* Starship Troopers: Filipino protagonist, point about race made subtly at end of book.
* Andre Norton, The Defiant Agents. Native American narrator, female author. Or pick from among several other books by Norton that include Native Americans.
Plus plenty to pick from Octavia Butler, Ursula LeGuin, Mercedes Lackey, Leigh Brackett, the list goes on and on. Niven may qualify as Louis Wu is multiracial.
We could easily do a year.
Melanie wrote: "2020...I don’t make plans 2 years in advance!"We need to have a discussion about math and calendars. :p
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I'm getting slow. ;-) Plus it was 5:30 AM then, my brain wasn't working yet.
This thread is worth a point to Trike :-)
How long does a classic book have to have stood the test of time?
Tassie Dave wrote: "I read this thread 12 hours ago and never got the gist of why 2020 until now. DohHow long does a classic book have to have stood the test of time?..."
20 years and 20 days
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How long does a classic book have to have stood the test of time?..."
20 years and 20 days"
Of course ;-)
Actually not a bad number. I was thinking about a generation (25 years), but your number is better.
Dara wrote: "(This is the real purpose of the Trike vs Dara scorecard. We're going to choose the classics and take over in 2020. )"I knew it!
I didn't get the 20/20 thing either. Feel dumb now.
Trike wrote: "For 2020 we should only read classics which have stood the test of time.The Hindsight Chalkenge.
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What I want to know is if a Chalkenge Is a challenge written in chalk, or is it just a chalk drawing of Stonehenge? ;-)
I "see" what you did there.I might be interested in reading a certain number of books that fit a description like "classics which have stood the test of time", but not exclusively. Not even for a month.
Me & reading have kind of an open relationship.
The Hindsight Chalkenge.
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