"To the Lighthouse" is garbage. It will forever remain on my top ten worst books list.https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1109813330720555009 …
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Replying to @EsotericCD
Maybe AP English as a senior in high school was the wrong place to encounter it. I just found it long and tedious. The first 180 pages take place on one day and who cares about that stupid dinner party?
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Replying to @varadmehta @EsotericCD
There are a great many works of literature that are not meant to be read as a teenager under compulsion.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @EsotericCD
Certainly. But I liked most of the books then. And as I said in the next tweet, I think modernism may not be my bag, because T. S. Eliot's poetry leaves me with that same blank chill. And I'm hardly a teenager being compelled now.
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I read Fagles then-new translation of "The Iliad" for pleasure that same year and loved it. So it's not that I couldn't or wouldn't read something challenging or difficult at that age. It's very specifically "To the Lighthouse."
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Replying to @varadmehta @EsotericCD
The book I loathed in high school and didn't return to & enjoy until my late 30s was Gatsby. At the time, I was just all "who cares about any of these damn rich people?"
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Replying to @baseballcrank @varadmehta
I remember sort of passing through my high school IB English lit program indifferent to all of our assignments (the one that got me a little was A TALE OF TWO CITIES in 9th grade) until I hit AS I LAY DYING in junior year. Then it was like a switch flipped on for me.
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The only thing from high school lit that stuck with me was Crime And Punishment. I don’t even remember anything else other than a couple of short stories and Ivanhoe.
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True story: one of our books had an offbeat collection including Arlo Guthrie's narration of Alice's Restaurant. I wrote a test answer on that & forgot it had never been assigned.
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