I wish we'd been able to unilaterally decree books as lacking literary value at my school and have them removed from the reading list. Screw you Thomas Hardy,

I wish we'd been able to unilaterally decree books as lacking literary value at my school and have them removed from the reading list. Screw you Thomas Hardy, you're off the curriculum, some 14 year old has decided you lack literary value because they find all those descriptions of countryside dull and don't want to read them. (Obviously in this instance that 14 year old would have been me and I'd have been right but I'd also have said something similar about Dickens and been about as spectacularly wrong as it's possible to be).