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Originally Posted by fjtorres
DUNE is a challenging read, maybe a bit too challenging, but the others work on multiple levels, starting with wordsmithing but going well beyond it.
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We had to read 12 books for our English book list when I was in (Dutch) high school (although it probably roughly corresponded to American AP classes, as our high school isn't a single school, but split into 3 levels, of which I did the highest), and I had
Dune on my list (actually the entire single-volume original trilogy). And
Watership Down. And
The Lord of the Rings.
Even at 17, I wasn't afraid of fat books
At my exams I ended up chatting about
The Lord of the Rings for the full 15 minutes (as one of the two teachers present wanted to hear about it and my English teacher, who was the seond, had told him 'in that case, we have to talk to
that guy') and got a 9 (Roughly an A-)...