This Twitter thread is here to call you out for never shutting up about that one classic you read

After all this time? Always.
This Twitter thread is here to call you out for never shutting up about that one classic you read
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We were all young and impressionable once.

And we all remember the first classic book we read that really hit a chord with us, making us realise the power of great literature.

For some it's The Great Gatsby, for others it's George Orwell's 1984.

And this Twitter thread is basically here to remind you that while it's great that you read that book, it's really basic of you to still be talking about it.

Twitter user @Julian_Epp posted this list of books that so many of us read as teenagers, and people had a lot to say about it.

Some people took it personally.

Others got busy adding their own teen faves to the list.

Some, meanwhile, were just happy to keep talking about books.

To be fair, we've never stopped talking about Harry Potter. And we never will.

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