Thread: Should high school students have to read Shakespeare?
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Old 03-31-2011, 05:50 PM   #153
Gwen Morse
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Half the problem, though, is that we put children off great literature for life by forcing them to read what are very definitely NOT children's books before they're able to appreciate them.

It will come as no great surprise to many people that one of my favourite authors is Dickens. Like every other British schoolchild I was force-fed Dickens at school and HATED his books. It was only when I was in my late 30s that I rediscovered him and learned to love his books for the great literature that they are. You just can't appreciate Dickens' biting social satire when you're a teenager (or at least I couldn't).
I still loathe Thomas Hardy, while many of my literary friends can't praise him highly enough. I had to read four of his books in one year.
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