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Originally Posted by Kevin8or
Agreed. Try re-reading a clasic from high school. You might be surprised by a new-found appreciation. Don't pick a book you absolutely hated, of course. Nothing will make me touch Moby Dick again, but there have been others that astonished me. How did I miss the depth, the richness, of this book on the first go-around? I think we were too young and inexperienced to fully comprehend some of the literature we read in high school.
Hated it: Herman Melville. Loved it: John Steinbeck.
I'd like to hear your opinions on this one: Shakespeare in high school. Elizabethan English for teenagers? It wasn't so bad for me in college, but I think high school is too early. I wonder if I'll never love Shakespeare because it was forced upon me too soon.
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I liked Shakespeare when I got R&J in 8th grade, Julius Caesar in 10th, and a full on Shakespeare seminar in college. Poe rocked my world in 6th grade and last week
For the most part my opinions of the 'classics' have stayed the same. I loathed The Awakening at 18 and still hated it at 30. The Old Man and the Sea still makes me want to claw out my eyes. Les Mes didn't do anything for me both times I went after it, with a decade in between.
What I have noticed is my take on popular works has changed quite a bit. Some of the fantasy novels I adored as a kid read like cardboard cut outs of themselves. And my take on 'good' tv has changed radically.