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Originally Posted by NatCh
I could post my entire high-school English class reading list (all four years) as books I hated: I had a knee-jerk "I hate this" reaction to everything they told us to read.
The odd thing is, I didn't hate reading, I read a lot during those years, I just resented being told what to read, apparently. Well, that plus the LOTF thing. 
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Ditto. That's why number 1 on my list are all Russian classics. Although I loved to read books. My dad forced me to switch off the light at 23.00 every night on week days, so I had a small torch (such as being used in coal mines) and I used it to read book under my blanket till 01.00...very rarely but it happened a few times till 05.00-06.00 in the morning when I read Consuelo and la Comtesse De Rudolstady (1843, a sequel to Consuelo - cannot find the name in English)