Classics or comtemporary?

I guess that being your favourite genre the fantasy, the most interesting material for you is the modern one, besides, when we are forced to read a book, specially in high school, it is a lot less funny. I remember that I had to read The Quijote in high school, and I hate it, years later, I start to read it again, with bore at the beginning, but I finally like it. I read Pride and Prejudice once, and I really didn´t like it that much, although, being fair, I read a spanish translation, to be able to judge, I would have to try the original.

Well there aren't too many fantasies that have achieved classic status, though there have been a number of them written all across time. Fantasy gets shunned by loads of literary critics. I never read a single fantasy novel in school, so there was nothing to hate for being forced to read. The fantasy classics that I've read, I've read outside of school. And the point of fantasy is hardly to be "funny" for me, though maybe that's not really the word you meant to use...? I like fantasy because I like good vs. evil, hero's journey, epic quest to save the world, mythological creatures, mythological worlds... that kind of thing. Humor really isn't essential. You know, I don't think I disliked many of the books I was forced to in school cause I was forced to read them. I remember many of the books I was bored by, depressed by, and offended by. I don't really think anything would change should I read them now. And I said I remotely liked Pride and Prejudice, but that was cause it was a largely sweet and pretty straightforward story in a parade of books with unhappy endings, unlikable characters, unlikable plots, and symbolic hoo-ha. I don't expect everyone would like it, but if you want to try the original and see if you enjoy it any better then I'd say go for it.

Thanks for the reply, I guess that your work leave you tired at the end of the day, sometimes, I feel the same, but I always like to spare some time to read on the weekends, if I have had a rough week. As you, I like the classics better, and I did not like to read while in school, maybe it was that I didn´t read for fun, but because someone tell me to do so.

Indeed the mood we have in a particular time will make us pick either one or another, classics or contemporary, still, most of the time we will have preferences for either one or another, I believe. In your case, that you enjoy sci-fi, and fantasy, I guess that the most interesting material is the modern one, yet, reading classics can be interesting, specially to find out that, what they call science fiction, a hundred years ago,or so, is our everyday life, some material of Julio Verne is a good example of that. Thank you for your reply.

I understand your feelings, and thanks for the reply. Although life has change, and the perspectives of live and expectations, has change 180º, I believe that the human experience, is basically the same, I mean, we all love, hate, have the same basic fears on loneliness, we all have the desire to success and to strugle in order to achieve our dreams, and, this is the same, regardless the time, all the good writers, ancient or new, treat this same topics, of course, styles are diferent, and the way of seeing live too, I guess is just a matter of tastes.