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Originally Posted by Xenophon
Vaseline:
When I read Pride and Prejudice in High School (for class, of course) I thought it was the stupidest, most boring book I had ever encountered. When I re-read it fifteen years later, I found it to be screamingly funny. Trenchant observations both of the society of the time and also of people-issues that never change.
Tastes change.
Xenophon
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That's the problem with force-feeding "adult" authors to teenage children - it just puts them off the "classics" for life. I was exactly the same with Dickens - forced to read "David Copperfield" in school and thought it was
the more boring book ever. I only "rediscovered" Dickens 20 years later, in my late 30s, and thank goodness I did - he's now my favourite author!