Any hot takes on any critically acclaimed books or “classics”?

I have some takes, I don’t know how ~hot they are but:

1:

  • I love Jane Eyre, and I kind of just lol when people are like ‘Mr. Rochester/the romance are problematic’, like uuuuh… of course he is, and of course it is, it’s a…gothic romance?
  • And tbh (although you could link this with a lot of classics), you should really not be reading fiction looking for Relationship Goals anyway?? Or trying to model your own ideal romantic relationships off them because it’s uh…fiction.
  • Like if you’re looking to do that, buy or rent a nonfiction book about relationships by an expert in psychology?? Idw to ruin your day or nothin’ but…ye. That’s my take
  • Anyway; Charlotte Bronte wrote that book for Ugly Girls everywhere so I’ll always love her for it. 

2:

3

  • I get so annoyed when people say Pride & Prejudice is overrated??
  • It’s rated exactly as much as it should be.
  • (I’ve read it 4 times)
  • Hush!!

4

  • I HATED having to read Animal Farm in high school, it was so. Boring.
  • I get that it’s a work of important historic significance (well….for the British perspective anyway, on All That)
  • But I still hated it, I think 1984 is much better. 

5

  • Franny & Zooey is legiterally a thousand times better than Catcher in the Rye.
  • Tbh I think that should be the work Salinger is famous for, it is so tragically underrated and it’s made me cry and I think everyone should read it.