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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
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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I have to agree with this. And it's not like I never have looked at some of them again, but the same things I hated about them then, I still don't like. And to be honest, there were definitely things that I was "forced" to read back then that I really ultimately ended up really liking.
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.)