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Originally Posted by Froide
I concur with ReadingManiac. I read the book in junior high school English class, and it has stuck with me. (In contrast to ReadingManiac, however, I was already a horror aficionado, having been exposed to the likes of such authors as William Peter Blatty, Shirley Jackson, and Edgar Allan Poe.)
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It's fantastic when a curriculum can match books of literary merit to the students' interest. Just the same, I'm not sure that a book which fit a junior high school reading and comprehension level is in the same ballpark as
Cannery Row, which would not have been suitable. This is why I said that
The Pearl is skippable for the adult reader now. Not of course that I criticize anyone for liking it or preferring it, but I think objectively speaking,
Cannery Row is much more important in the Steinbeck canon.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I think reading a book in class makes a bigger impact because you are naturally getting more out of it than you would reading the same book for pleasure.
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I don't think that's necessarily true.