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Redlass Original Post: Oct 25 '06,  2:02 pm           Reply
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How long...

...until a book can be called a classic?

There are certainly post-WWII books that now classify as classics, but what about books in the 90s? How old does something have to be before it gets status as a classic?
   
scmrak Posted: Oct 25 '06,  4:45 pm (Updated: Oct 25 '06,  4:46 pm)           Reply
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RE: How long...

Quote: Redlass
...until a book can be called a classic?

There are certainly post-WWII books that now classify as classics, but what about books in the 90s? How old does something have to be before it gets status as a classic?
"A classic is a book that people praise but don't read." (SLC/MT)

Lotsa classics 'round these parts...

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jsgoddess Posted: Oct 25 '06,  4:52 pm           Reply
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Quote: Redlass
How old does something have to be before it gets status as a classic?


I think we can only know retroactively. We just don't know which books from the 90s are going to "make it," canon-wise.

I'm fairly well-read, up to a point. But I bet I haven't read any of the books anyone would consider a candidate for "classic" status written later than 1980. I might be forgetting something, but it's like my personal canon just ends there. It's not deliberate, just laziness.

Julie
   
jsgoddess Posted: Jul 15 '08,  1:38 pm           Reply
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I think we can only know retroactively. We just don't know which books from the 90s are going to "make it," canon-wise.


Anyone have any nominations for books from the 90s that will be (or are) canon by now?

Julie
   
quasar Posted: Jul 22 '08,  8:14 pm           Reply
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Quote: jsgoddess
Anyone have any nominations for books from the 90s that will be (or are) canon by now?

Julie


I'll be bold and throw something out there:

The Giver by Lois Lowry.

And one from the 2000s:

The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
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