Book meme- Day 23

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23. Made to read at school.

I’ve been made to read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies twice, and t stands out because I hated the book the first time, and I hated it on the re-read too. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye was also a school required read I didn’t enjoy at all. Classic or not.

On the other hand, I was also required to read Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way and loved every word of it. I really wish I could read it in French.

Comments

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Hmm, I wonder if that is why it's such a popular book in schools. Teachers who read it in the '50s and remember the impact, and not realising what teenagers like change decade to decade. And now it's part of the curriculum out of habit. :)