• @Sir_Fridge
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    34 months ago

    Same exact experience. Dutch literature is horrid. It’s a lot of sad depression and drugs. There’s a reason almost everyone read “het diner” or “het gouden ei” since those are doable. There seriously isn’t anything exciting like a detective or the stuff you mentioned. Not even a 1984, which is a depressing book but at least there’s some excitement. It really seems most Dutch literature is just pages of misery and nothing happening.

    For English literature I read the lord of the rings. Way more pages, much more fun.

    • @[email protected]
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      44 months ago

      Yeah exactly. I always looked forward to reading English books. And in German classes I’d also look forward to reading, though that probably had to do more with how bad I was at German. Dutch literature is just boring and depressing for most highschoolers. I’m sure for some older people it was exciting, and those must’ve been the people deciding that forcing us to read this stuff was a good idea.