My Classic History

Sarah Dessen is one of the

popular Young Adult 

novelist of all times.  

Seeing my other blog’s you might have thought that  I’m not the one for classics judging that I am a young adult or in terms of speaking a teenager and that, my genre has mostly everything aside classics. Of course you might consider that I am not alone in this deprived state most teenagers my age prefer to read Young Adult romances like Sarah Dessen’s for girls and Percy Jackson for the boys (not that I don’t read both). You rarely see an adolescent sitting in a bus reading classics, do you? I observed that way back and set up a resolution. I had to read classics whether I enjoy it or not.

My hate for classics started when I was ten years old. I read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I hated it more then ever thought I had only read  eleven pages and threw it away. I declared that is was the worst book ever, too boring with too much detail. End of story and there I was skipping on my way to the library to issue Harry Potter.

A year later I thought of picking up The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein, the cover looked a little dull green hills a river, I tried it anyway. When I look back, I remember vaguely that I had read Eldest by Christopher Paoini that year. I had fallen in love with the idea of elves and dwarfs and especially beautiful dragons, I am still intrigued with it no doubt, but that is exactly why I loved the hobbit and mostly Bilbo Baggins quest and all the obstacles he crossed. As soon as I finished reading it I picked up Lord of the Rings. 11 year old little Sanskriti to read Lord of the Rings, the greatest written novel of all time-all by herself. Ouch! That sound’s harsh. I read half of the fellowship of the ring again declaring my all time now favorite classic as stupid and shelved it in my mind as: "To-Read-Only-If-Willing-To-Have-A-Sore-Head-Or-Go-Insane."

The Voyage of the dawn Trader 

by CS Lewis is considered the

best children literature ever. Even 

so, I've never been able to finish 

this book.  

There were rare classics that I did like. Like Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan or The Wizard Of Oz, the main reasons were because it was short and of course children literature. But even in Children Literature I hated the Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis, I remember being in 4^th grade trying to issues the Voyage of the Dawn Trader again for the 4^th time. I never finished it although, I tried many times but happily gave up as soon as the four siblings went through the painting that is to say in short the 7^th or 8^th page. The thought of the four children going through the painting was supposed to be exiting and surely I had to be curious. It was quite the contradictory for me it was plain dull and immensely tedious.

I have this tendency of throwing away good books as soon as the exiting bit comes up. There are many instances, For example:

Sanskriti’s Age (in years)	Book’s Name	Left the book Exactly When
7	Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone- JK Rowling	Harry meets Voldemort and discovers Professor Quirrell’s has been hiding Lord Voldermort at the back of his head.
9	The Voyage Of the dawn Trader –CS Lewis	The four siblings are sucked in to Narnia by a painting.
11	Lord of the Rings- JRR Tolkein	Frodo and gang meet with Aaragon

There are a hundred others if I think very closely. I left these books and came back to them sooner or later (except Voyage of the Dawn Trader but this time I read ¾  of the book and left it again.)

Here I am now having read more then enough of classics for my age even if my age group does not read classics. I’ve read HG Wells, Sir Athur Conan Doyle, many shorts stories by Guy de Maupassant, Chinua Achebe, Henrik Isben, Johnathan Swift, Bram Stoker, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller,  Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë and yes everyone has read Shakespeare.

That is not even ¼ of the brilliant classic authors that have prevailed in this world young Twilight and Harry Potter fans, there is a world out there filled with classics, the ladies are swishing their robes impatiently, the men are scratching there long beards. There waiting for YOU, the same way Pride and Prejudice is for me. 

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