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Originally Posted by Catlady
I had that experience with Steinbeck--in school we had to read The Pearl, which I hated and which made me avoid Steinbeck for years. Thankfully I eventually tried Steinbeck again.
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I read Of Mice And Men in my own time as a pre-teen, and I adored it. When it came to reading it in high school, the English faculty very nearly succeeded in making me
loathe it instead. Years later, and I still haven't been able to bring myself to read The Grapes Of Wrath. Just in case.