[Sirtel]

Heh. There was very little fantasy in my childhood (the genre was frowned upon in the Soviet Union, because LOTR was forbidden. I got to read LOTR in my twenties, after the disintegration of the USSR), but I read lots of classics in my teens and early twenties. Got fed up with them and found genre fiction (including fantasy and SF) far more interesting. Haven't read any classics since and don't plan to.