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High school ruined this book for me. It would've been easier to read if I hadn't been forced to tear apart every single sentence for analysis. Hearing "Great Ga
by Mistri 6y ago
High school ruined this book for me. It would've been easier to read if I hadn't been forced to tear apart every single sentence for analysis. Hearing "Great Gatsby" triggers my gag reflex now, along with most other books I analyzed in high school.
- toyg 6y agoIn Italy that happens with Dante’s Divina Commedia and Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi. Very good reads on their own, they get absolutely destroyed by being forced on kids.
- jwdunne 6y agoSimilar thing happened to me but with Of Mice and Men and Macbeth. Come to enjoy those stories but it always felt like I was meant to glean a deeper meaning than even the author intended!
- tjalfi 6y agoLiterary augury[0] is my term for that kind of literature discussion. [0] https://www.britannica.com/topic/augury https://www.britannica.com/topic/augury
- RBerenguel 6y agoI had this with The Picture of Dorian Gray, but on a re-read later (several years on a bored weekend, that was before I wrote code or read about code most of the time) I came to really appreciate it.
- WalterBright 6y agoI finally got around to reading Romeo+Juliet in my 40's. It was much better than I expected, aside from all the tired cliches in the prose.
- ecopoesis 6y agoShakespeare invented those “tired cliches.”
- throwawayboise 6y agoYep same. HS English classes pretty much killed all desire to read Shakespear or any of the "important" American authors. Kurt Vonnegut's works are the only ones I remember enjoying.
- whalesalad 6y agoSame here. High school English was traumatizing.