u/Itchy-Resolution6531 — reddlx

What Are Your Half Baked and Maybe Unpopular Takes On Classic Lit?

Here are some of mine:

The Underground Man is Stephen Dedalus at forty years old. Educated with no knowledge or information. Self aware with no self awareness.

If Moby Dick would have been popular in it's time, Ulysses would not be a thing. Melville did all the same stuff with a better side story.

The post WWI books about British Aristocracy falling apart and losing their touch as good as US Lost Generation novels.

People worry about translations way too much; use them as a crutch not to dig in. It would be better if people just picked one, burned the boats and dove in 100%.

More novels should have been serialized. Allow the authors some time to develop more story arcs, cut some of riff raff that did not age well and had better endings. Feel like the format and the structure of sterilization needed planning, depth and foresight that some authors might have benefited from.

What are yours?

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u/Itchy-Resolution6531 — 1 day ago

▲ 19 r/AntiqueGuns

Does anybody know what the P1 or PI markings on this musket mean? Somebody suggested Pennsylvania 1st Infantry. Any knowledge or even guesses?

Got the barrel unclogged of a few centuries of dirt, flax and garbage, and got the missing parts coming. Gonna have a complete musket soon.

u/Itchy-Resolution6531 — 15 days ago

▲ 90 r/classicliterature

Going to need some time to think, but this won't likely end up being my favorite, or the best novel that I have every read, but it is the most amazing. What I got out of the book was the absurd/ridiculous and no novel has ever been on point as much as this one. Just more and more absurd things coming at you in a way that was not in your face, fast moving, direct, felt real and was entertaining.

I can see how this book might not be for everybody. I also now understand why the Navy was unhappy with Maverick for buzzing the tower so much.

I had a hard time finding humor nor cynicism, but rather amazement. There were some funny moments, but most were wrapped in my sympathy. I also understand that many officers in the armed forces care more about vanity and glory than the people in their command - which again, is absurd to me, but true.

If you love this book, the Easton Press edition is good.

What books have you found to be 100% on point all of the time? What did you take away from Catch-22?

u/Itchy-Resolution6531 — 22 days ago