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Originally Posted by nekokami
But I liked Shakespeare pretty well, even as a kid. Possibly the assigned book I liked least was Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano. That beat Moby Dick and even Death of a Salesman. I thought it had lots of interesting ideas, but it was just too down-beat for me. I wrote a paper contrasting it with Harlan Ellison's "Repent, Harlequin, said the Tick-Tock Man." I got an A. It helped that my English teacher at the time was well aware of who Harlan Ellison was.  |
Ah, Neko. You are young enough to remember what you read in school! Did you read Shakespeare in English or in translation? Many of my Chinese friends here enjoy S in Chinese. I find his English murkly and laborious.