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<blockquote data-quote="RiggsWolfe" data-source="post: 1343590" data-attributes="member: 2734">I never have liked Kings James versions of anything. Probably came from my exposure to it in the bible as a child. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> In fact, I blame King James for my early aversion to Shakespeare, though as I got older I grew to really like Shakespeare, especially once I figured out the rhythm to reading it.To be honest, most of the classics I read I read so long ago I don't truly remember any. I remember Ray Bradbury had about a fifty percent success rate with me. Some of his stuff I liked. Some of it I found really, really bizzare. George Orwell tended to move slow for me, though I do admit I blazed through Around the World in 80 Days. I think part of it is there was a cultural difference back when these classics were written and as you said it makes them dated and corny. Perhaps that is what I have trouble getting past.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RiggsWolfe, post: 1343590, member: 2734"] I never have liked Kings James versions of anything. Probably came from my exposure to it in the bible as a child. ;) In fact, I blame King James for my early aversion to Shakespeare, though as I got older I grew to really like Shakespeare, especially once I figured out the rhythm to reading it. To be honest, most of the classics I read I read so long ago I don't truly remember any. I remember Ray Bradbury had about a fifty percent success rate with me. Some of his stuff I liked. Some of it I found really, really bizzare. George Orwell tended to move slow for me, though I do admit I blazed through Around the World in 80 Days. I think part of it is there was a cultural difference back when these classics were written and as you said it makes them dated and corny. Perhaps that is what I have trouble getting past. [/QUOTE]

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