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[–] -2 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

It's dumb.

there is a reason it's assigned to 8th graders. they tend to enjoy dumb stories, that require a minimum effort to read and very little effort to understand.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I think English teachers love it because they hate sci-fi and 451 is a love letter to classic literature and, outside of a robotic dog, not sci-fi.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It was also sci-fi at the time to have an entire wall of a house be a screen

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    “What if TV but bigger?”

    I mean, not radical.

    A pretty on-the-nose metaphor for Guy’s wife losing her grip on reality.

    The seashell radio was more prescient. And insidious.

    Look at how everyone now has their particular podcast poisoning their mind. And, often, body.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago*

    they don't teach romance and mystery books either.

    because they aren't literature. they are popular entertainment.

    English teachers don't love it, they teach it because it's part of the standard curriculum of books they are allowed to teach. there are standard lists of books from which they get to pick, usually selected by the state or school board.

    which is why pretty much every student reads the same books across the country, give or take a few different ones.

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