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Originally Posted by jbjb
It's the forced over-analysis of the books which has put off my kids - trying to read far more into every sentence than the author could in any way have plausibly intended. Sometimes if an author says that something is green, it's just because it's green - you really don't need to read layer upon layer of meaning into it.
To be fair, it's not the school's fault (it's a good school), it just seems to be what the current system requires.
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And not everyone is ready for the same book at the same time. I remember reading an article by Steve Allen about reading in which when he was a kid he was supposed to read Moby Dick and he found it a bore at the time, but then yrs later he read it and enjoyed it.