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02-09-2012, 03:30 PM | #47 |
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I wouldn't call myself a Dickens "lover," though I certainly don't hate him.
What I find disheartening is so many people I'm exposed to who declare they hate this or that "classic" book because their only encounter with it was being assigned (i.e. forced) to read it in school. What is it about so many schools that seem to do the opposite of what they intend---instill a love of reading and literature? To the "haters" out there who had that type of bad school experience, give Dickens and those other classics another try on your own time. You may be surprised how enjoyable they are when the onus of being forced to read them is off. |
02-09-2012, 04:56 PM | #48 | |
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02-09-2012, 05:53 PM | #49 |
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Nothing's changed for me. The authors I hated in school are still hated today (Hemingway, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald). And the ones I liked in school are still liked today (Verne, Poe, Dickens, Wells).
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02-10-2012, 10:28 PM | #50 | |
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And I personally guarantee that one thing that will never happen is I will never consider reading "Their Eyes Were Watching God" again, even if it would save my life. I'd rather die. To this day it remains the book that I've hated most in my life. The way it's written I just plain couldn't read it. Now, I have to admit, AP Lit back in high school wasn't really my best subject. Especially when it came to poetry, I just never could find the deeper meaning behind poems that all my teachers insisted was there. I mean, I'm sorry, but I just can't find a deep meaning behind "Death of a ball turret gunner". I also guess I figure there's plenty out there for me to read, so I feel no real reason to go and subject myself to stuff I never liked in the first place. (Now, that said, even though I don't particularly like Dickens, it obviously didn't stop me from sticking my nose in here to see what they came up with for their list. I was genuinely curious how that was going to turn out.) |
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02-19-2012, 08:35 AM | #51 |
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I’ve always been an avid reader, but came out of high school with a profound dislike for nearly every book and author I had been ‘forced’ to read for class. Years later, out of curiosity, I made a list of all those books/authors and started working my way back through them to make sure I’d been fair.
I was surprised to find I liked many of my old demons: Dickens, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Shakespeare, Conrad, most of the British Romantic poets, a lot of the Modern poets - the list goes on - even Cry, The Beloved Country (which, at 16, I was convinced was the most wretched book ever inflicted on anyone). I’m still not a fan of Thomas Hardy or Nathaniel Hawthorne, and I doubt I’ll ever finish Moby Dick, but I DID give them another try. |
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