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Originally Posted by Russell Brooks
Although it was considered to be a classic, The Old Man and the Sea didn't work for me.
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Me either! I didn't remember it at the time of my first post, but your post brought the memories back. I can still remember thinking at the time, 'Wow, man goes fishing, man caught a fish, man lost a fish, man goes home—a whole book that I could tell in a sentence'.
We had to read it in 8th grade so perhaps I'd get more of the supposed wonderfulness now, but the memory is so distasteful that it won't be happening. I have over 1000 unread books that actually seemed interesting to me anyway.
-Marcy