This could be from any age really. I remember reading lots of books like Harry Potter as a 4th grader to seem smart to the teachers looking at me but I didn’t understand any of it. When the big YA dystopian boom was happening, I read tons of terrible YA dystopias to seem cool but many of them frustrated me.

  • laughingheart66@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    When I was in high school I forced myself to read nothing but classics. I enjoyed them but I definitely did not “get” them. I thought If I read anything recent or YA I would’ve been seen as “lesser” and ultimately missed out on a lot of fun stories that I can’t enjoy to their fullest now cuz I’m older. It did leave a lot of worlds for me to discover when I got back into reading years later though, so I can’t complain too much.

    • lovethosedamnplants@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I enjoy rereading a lot of the classics I read when I was younger because my interpretations are soooo unbelievably different! When I first read Wuthering Heights I though Heathcliff was the most romantic character ever written, now its like holy shit what is wrong with these people