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⌈ Secret Post #2238 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I'd suggest approaching them as you would any other book. If you start reading it and don't like it, don't bother. Forcing people to read certain books is like forcing them to watch certain movies, the person's just more likely to hate it. Your liking or disliking a book doesn't make you any more intelligent, it's about personal taste.

Personally I'm a fast reader and for English class I would read a book and enjoy it, but then the slow analysis and nitpicking critiques we were forced to do made me hate them. I'll never read the Great Gatsby again (OMG the light on the pier is green, green is a symbol for money, LOOKIE WHAT THE AUTHOR DID OF COURSE HE MEANT IT AS MONEY - MEMORIZE THAT SYMBOLOGY FOR THE TEST). If I didn't enjoy reading so much, I would've been turned off anything labeled as a classic for a long time.

[tweedisgood]

IA. Dissecting 'Great Expectations' for O level put me off Dickens for...pretty much ever. Shakespeare only survived because I keep making sure to see it on stage.

[(Anonymous)]

For me it depends, because I quite like dissecting things, but yes, some works hold up better than others for two months of exhaustive, collective analysis. I loved Shakespeare in class, because sometimes it's really, really funny watching people react to the revelation that the few lines the teacher just had them read out are, when you know the English of the time, really filthy. Which he kept doing, because Shakespeare apparently enjoyed putting dirty jokes in things. After a couple of classes, people start to catch on, but that's nearly as good to watch.

But Shakespeare on stage is different. We did King Lear, which is pretty good in class, but when we saw it live, the actor playing Edmund made him the most fabulously sleazy character to watch, it gave him a whole other level. When you're reading Shakespeare, you don't realise how pared down the experience is, because even though it's just dialogue it's rather busy dialogue. But then you see it live, and you're reminded that yes, script format takes a lot of things out of the experience ...

[truxillogical]

I wish everyone's first experience to Shakespeare could be seeing it performed live.

(When I lived in London, I was addicted to the Globe. It was seriously A Problem.)

[(Anonymous)]

It was standard in our school (this was Ireland, early oughties). There were a couple of theaters up in the capital (two hours by bus) that used to do a Shakespeare rotation based on what plays were on the state exams that year. So I saw Romeo and Juliet for the junior exams, and then King Lear for the senior exams three years later.

It depended on what school you were in, and I think the theater that did it had to close in 2009, but I happened to be attending the right school at the right time, so I got lucky.

[lauramcewan]

I felt the same way about Huckleberry Finn. I had loved that book as a kid, but in high school having to state that "The river was a symbol for FREEDOM" I was so unhappy with it. I wanted to enjoy the book for what *I* found in it, what it said to me, not what someone else said it "meant". I really felt like my joy was taken AWAY from me having to parse it down.

And I really did question: Did Twain *try* to put in that *symbology* and does it really MATTER?