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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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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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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In our Catholic school Eighth Grade class we had a lay teacher named Miss Jane. She turned us on to A Separete Peace. I had read other serious works of literature on my own but to have her walk us through the book, talk about the world at that time was really amazing.
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I was assigned that book three times in five years. Hated it.
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The only thing worse than Salinger was Joyce. (We also read tons of Steinbeck and all of it was awful).
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As an English prof, I love to hear people talking about the books they hated.
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Now, Orwell - who I read in 7th grade (Animal Farm) & college, I always loved. But then, Orwell was always more journalism than literature.
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