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Originally Posted by nekokami
I read Lord of the Flies in 7th grade, I think. But now I can't remember if it was a school assignment. I think so. I remember that I didn't "enjoy" it, but I did find it interesting.
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My primary objection to it was that we were messed up enough in 9th grade without that thing. I may actually have been able to handle it
better in 7th than 9th.
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Originally Posted by nekokami
Well, I almost compared the main character of Scottish play to Anakin, but I thought the prince of Denmark losing it after his father's death wasn't that far off. Probably ******* is a better choice, though.
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Speak not the
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I can see a bit of the comparison, to Hamlet, but not enough to give it much weight without some serious supporting arguments.
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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.  |
This is hysterical! My wife (who -- for those who may not know -- is finishing up her PhD in Victorian Lit.) and I were discussing this discussion at dinner, and she said things that are very similar to what you're saying, nekokami (just swap the book titles ...) -- Academics! I shall tell you something close to what I told her: Yup, I can see that, but you probably weren't representative of your age group at the time.
I wasn't either for that matter, I spend a lot of 6th grade reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collected works.
