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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > I'm still not sold on this whole "reading" thing: Let's try literature!
 
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Ben Nevis
Jan 20, 2011
 I'm unsure on the first, but I'd probably have answered the last 3 with a yes.

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Ben Nevis
Jan 20, 2011

Mel Mudkiper posted:

Speaking of which, Lord of the Flies might be the wrongest taught book in all of American fiction

Second only, maybe, to The Scarlet Letter

Can you elaborate?

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Ben Nevis
Jan 20, 2011
 Mel's critique there brings to mind Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether as well.

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Ben Nevis
Jan 20, 2011
 I'm not sure that anyone reads TKaM or other similar books and thinks about how they're part of a large system of institutional racism. I mean, "Maybe I should be nicer to the valet" or whatever is a beneficial realization, but not really the sort that drives any change.

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