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Obviously everyone is different, but (aside from Shakespeare) the two books I read in HS that I most liked were Cather in the Rye and A Tale of Two Cities. I s
by aidenn0 4y ago
Obviously everyone is different, but (aside from Shakespeare) the two books I read in HS that I most liked were Cather in the Rye and A Tale of Two Cities. I should note that after liking A Tale of Two Cities so much, I tried David Copperfield and Oliver Twist and found neither to my liking. I had my great expectations of Dickens' other work rather crushed at that point.
Oh, and forcing anyone to read Melville should be a crime. A very few people I know loved the experience, but I was unable to finish Billy Bud much less Moby Dick.
- ghaff 4y agoI recall not caring much for A Tale of Two Cities. I keep thinking I should try other Dickens like Bleak House. I do enjoy some other Victorian authors--at least the few best-regarded books I've tried like Wilkie Collins and Anthony Trollope. I vaguely recall not liking Billy Bud in high school although I read Moby Dick as an adult and was mostly glad I worked my way through but it did take an effort. I don't think I hated Catcher in the Rye at the time. It just didn't make much of an impression one way or the other.
- yesenadam 4y agoI really loved Great Expectations. Also Britten's Billy Budd is one of the 2 operas I really love. 1966 BBC version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1lVBfqQyjs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1lVBfqQyjs
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoMy sixth grade teacher made us read The Hobbit. The rest is history. I'm a voracious reader of "junky" fantasy books. But Mencken was a real wordsmith -albeit a really, really cynical one. > and, under it all, the simple sentimentality of a somewhat sclerotic fat woman.
- aidenn0 4y agoMy dad read me The Hobbit as a bedtime story starting from kindergarten. It was the first non-picture book I ever read.