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.

  • halkenburgoito@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Damn, when I was kid I just read whatever I wanted like HP or Percy Jackson, whatever, just for fun. It was great

    There has been a little while where I’ve been trying to read a classic. I’ve tried Moby Dick multiple times a while ago, a failed.

    I tried “Don Quixote” a while ago, and that was funny, but I still couldn’t complete it.

    I feel like its gotta be a different approach in the way books were written back then. I figure back then people wanted to spend a lot more time in these worlds, and books were made without cutting much fat. vs now books seem a lot more to the point… idk.

    Either way I think I will try Dracula… since I’ve heard great things about that