pls go re-read all the books you hated in school. i swear once the frontal lobe has developed its a whole new story w/ a wildly different perspective.
you owe it to yourself. go re-read animal farm, 1984, gatsby, night, mockingbird
theyre great literaty works for a reason
pls 💙📚
you owe it to yourself. go re-read animal farm, 1984, gatsby, night, mockingbird
theyre great literaty works for a reason
pls 💙📚
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I would urge you to try reading again. It’s so good, so fun, and so important.
I probably wouldn’t willingly go through it now.
Things make more sense with added experience
As a former ELA teacher, I’m hoping she was guilted into reading the book. As a current teen librarian, I’m glad she knows why there are several copies of the book in all libraries.
A couple years later I read it again, and it is now one of my favorite books.
Just please don’t ask me to try Wuthering Heights again.
I was always in the back corner.
Screw alphabetical seating charts.
I guess I'm old.
But I completely agree about classics like Jane Eyre and Night. Their Eyes Were Watching God. Reading changed my life as a kid, and then again as an adult but in a totally different way.
Some of them are still Iowa Workshop bullshit primped up by the CIA because they cherished certain values that have become more and more toxic as they've become more and more mythologized.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-the-cia-turned-american-literature-into-a-content-farm/
As Nabakov has said, a good reader is a rereader.
It is very definitely one of those books that should not be put down lightly, but flung with great force!
As we age our tastes change. Except for coffee...it's still disgusting.
But I will not reread grapes of wrath that book is too damn boring 😂
Or at least that's how I remember the protagonist Caulfied.
How about Winnie the Pooh?
Oops I liked those; also liked the ones you mentioned too.
I think I will though. Thanks.
I know cause I try again xD, and again, and again, like someday it will change. Still I'm waiting to think that onions are tasty but not happen lmao
Rise and Fall of the third Reich
A Tale of Two Cities
Madame Bovary
Any/all Shakespeare
Thoreau: Civil Disobedience and Walden
Brave New World
Plato’s discourses
But now I just can't stand reading. Or watching shows. Feels awful doing only that one thing for however long.
I’ve read Catcher in the Rye twice; still hate it.