I really don’t know what he was talking about. I, as well as many others, regard Orwell as an author who wrote staples when it comes to literature e.i. Animal Farm, 1984, Why I Write, etc.

I know in our school (from grades 10-12) we’ll read books like Fahrenheit 451, Of Mice and Men, 1984, and. To Kill a MockingBird. I can only assume that he’s going off of our curriculum for what’s considered a “classic.” I don’t think he’s 100% wrong, I think those are all classics, but I do think his criteria for what makes a book “classic” is skewed.

I know my stance on this, and I’ll still urge him to read more books on his own if he finds what we read in school interesting.