{"id":1442520,"date":"2021-04-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1442520"},"modified":"2021-04-12T17:30:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T21:30:51","slug":"5-great-american-novels-that-other-famous-authors-hated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/5-great-american-novels-that-other-famous-authors-hated\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Books on Your English Syllabus That Other Famous Authors Hated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/keira_knightly_lizzie_bennett_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What is a classic novel, anyway? Basically, a classic novel is born when someone says, \u201cI think this book is a classic novel,\u201d and everyone else says, \u201cSure, I guess.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s it. There&#8217;s no official consensus, no panel of judges, no final arbiter of classic criteria. If, in 100 years, a well-known literary critic decides that <em>Fifty Shades of Grey <\/em>is a classic novel and everyone agrees, then alert the media, because a best-selling fanfic that features such bonkers sentences as \u201cHis voice is warm and husky like dark melted chocolate fudge caramel&#8230; or something\u201d is now every bit as significant to the Western canon as <em>The Grapes of Wrath<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But just because <em>most people<\/em> think a book is good enough to be a classic doesn&#8217;t mean the book won&#8217;t have critics. For instance, the following books may be considered classics, but they were pretty deeply despised by other classic authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a classic novel, anyway? Basically, a classic novel is born when someone says, \u201cI think this book is a classic novel,\u201d and everyone else says, \u201cSure, I guess.\u201d&nbsp; That&#8217;s it. There&#8217;s no official   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[628,7344,25108,25017,23727,1387],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442520"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442520"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444799,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442520\/revisions\/1444799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}