[ SECRET POST #1817 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1817 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I never had to read Farenheit 451, but I loved it when I read it around age 13. But I've read books for school that I loved -- like Great Expectations or Ethan Frome (now if you want to talk about a book people HATE, it's Ethan Frome).

But yes, I remember people telling me that Catcher in the Rye was a "quintessential teen book" and I think that just made me dislike it more while reading it.

(Amusingly enough, my mom IS a librarian, and she never liked the book either.)

[murderershair.livejournal.com]

I think if you have a good teacher and the material's great (or sometimes just if the material's great) then a book can escape the School Reading Curse. I've had a string of terrible English teachers, so the only book I read in school and came out liking that I hadn't already read was The Great Gatsby. Maybe Picture of Dorian Gray, though I think that only half counts since it was a "read over holidays then write a paper" assignment. Though I did come out of senior year with far more tolerance for Faulker than anyone else in my family, but I put that down to the teacher having genuine enthusiasm.

The pegging of Catcher in the Rye as this universal teen thing will never not just confuse the hell out of me. If anything, it's a book that makes more sense the older you are reading it. I don't know if anything actually IS a quintessential teen book, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh! I did love "The Great Gatsby" too.