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    1. Varad Mehta‏ @varadmehta 24 Mar 2019
      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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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 24 Mar 2019
      Replying to @varadmehta @EsotericCD

      There are a great many works of literature that are not meant to be read as a teenager under compulsion.

      2 replies 1 retweet 22 likes
    3. Varad Mehta‏ @varadmehta 24 Mar 2019
      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    4. Varad Mehta‏ @varadmehta 24 Mar 2019
      Replying to @varadmehta @baseballcrank @EsotericCD

      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."

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 24 Mar 2019
      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?"

      5 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    6. Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON*‏Verified account @EsotericCD 24 Mar 2019
      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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    7. Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON*‏Verified account @EsotericCD 24 Mar 2019
      Replying to @EsotericCD @baseballcrank @varadmehta

      Senior year was where they hit us hard: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, Sylvia Plath, HAMLET (and then later ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD), and I did my personal piece on WITTGENSTEIN'S MISTRESS. All are hammered into my subconscious forever.

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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 24 Mar 2019
      Replying to @EsotericCD @varadmehta

      I did like the Shakespeare plays we did in HS - Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear. The more political Shakespeare plays, esp Caesar.

      5 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON*‏Verified account @EsotericCD 24 Mar 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank @varadmehta

      Hamlet wasn't even assigned until spring in our senior year and I'd pulled it out to read it in the summer, making pilgrimages to the Folger Shakespeare Library in DC. This was when Branagh's film was coming out too. The impact of Hamlet on me is and remains immense.

      2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
    10. Mr. B‏ @BrotherBeeBop 24 Mar 2019
      Replying to @EsotericCD @baseballcrank @varadmehta

      I just watched Gibson's hamlet. Not terrible

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 24 Mar 2019
      Replying to @BrotherBeeBop @EsotericCD @varadmehta

      I watched that when I was in high school. It was entertaining, but Gibson was obviously not cut out to play a man who hesitates to action.

      8:03 AM - 24 Mar 2019
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        2. Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON*‏Verified account @EsotericCD 24 Mar 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @varadmehta

          I like the Gibson HAMLET retrospectively (saw it as a young kid in theaters w/my parents before I could truly appreciate the play) precisely because it's such a different take on Olivier or (later) Branagh. Close is great too.

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Mr. B‏ @BrotherBeeBop 24 Mar 2019
          Replying to @EsotericCD @baseballcrank @varadmehta

          I've not seen the olivier take since middle school... but I just got showbox on my phone. Something to double back on perhaps, while waiting on Barr today.

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        1. Mr. B‏ @BrotherBeeBop 24 Mar 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @EsotericCD @varadmehta

          Lol perhaps so. But he was fairly interesting during the more manic scenes. I'll reserve judgement as to why.

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