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Originally Posted by HappyMartin
More evidence f the harm done by forcing school children to read books beyond them and so bore them half to death was The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy. I hated it. All those trees rubbing themselves into wounds and whatnot. Had no idea what he was on about. Our trees are miles apart and don't rub each other in that way. What was a school boy to make of the evils of bad marriages and all that?
Read the book again as an adult post divorce and thought it was fantastic. A fine institution divorce.  |
There was only one that I was forced to read that I hated -- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller and that was by a temp teacher who took over. Everything else was great, my English Teachers (the only ones I liked while I was briefly at school) were fantastic and inspiring. One introduced me to Steinbeck. The other had us all reading The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Dougals Adams.