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Originally Posted by HarryT
One excellent reason is that very often the books we are "force fed" in English lessons in school are great literature, but not intended for children. Dickens is a classic example - force-fed to school children, but definitely not a children's author. One needs to be an adult to appreciate his wonderful social satire.
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I never had Dickens forced upon me at school. We did however have Shakespeare forced upon us and that was bad enough. But yes, I fully understand. But to me, I feel that there are just too many good books out there that one may possibly enjoy without going back to something that brings back bad memories of what was endured during school. Now what can happen is a book you used to like, you go back and reread and find out it's not as good as you thought it was. I've had that happen. The last book like that was [i[Spock Must Die[/i] by James Blish. What I didn't pay attention to back then or really understood, I did now and the flaws in the book stood out quite easily.