The Dark Tower by Stephen King, I bought the whole series just based on few reviews I’d read, didn’t know what to expect. Fortunately, Stephen King didn’t disappoint me.

What dnf is??

The Neapolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrante still stays with me. I was very reluctant to start the books, that’s why I bought just the first one in the beginning (My brilliant friend), but I fell in love instantly with Ferrante’s prose and story and of course I read the rest of the series as well. Few months have passed since then and still my mind is there, in Napoli. I’ve read few other books afterwards, but none of them managed to catch me like these books did.

I will not say about novels because I liked most of them and would have read them even if they were not in the curriculum. But regarding poetry, school definitely made me hate it Instead of introducing me smoothly to some of the greatest poets, what it did is taking a poem of 10 lines and stretching it to a month of analysis of each syllable of the said poem. I had to reach 30 to open a poetry book again, and thankfully this time I appreciated it fully.

Which book you’re referring to? I didn’t know Stephen King’s wife also wrote books?!

Read Hamlet once when I was 12 and again when I was 35 - two completly different experiences. Same applies to some philosophical books I attempted to read when I was teenager, like Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and Symposium by Plato, even now I don’t get 100% the content of the books, imagine how much I did when I was a 15 year old twat.