My Antonia. Assigned grade 9 (USA) and I struggled to stay awake for it. It just bored me. The movie with Whoopi Goldberg and Neil Patrick Harris was good in memory. Now that I’m separated by decades from 9th grade I should try it again.
We need more threads that talk about books I should avoid as I want to read all the books and simply don’t have time.
We need more threads that talk about books I should avoid as I want to read all the books and simply don’t have time.
read the whole thing in HS - holy crap was it terrible. I read it because a young woman I liked a lot spoke highly of Ayn Rand - first read Anthem and found it bearable, but Atlas Shrugged? I want my life/time back.
Also never got the girl, lol.
read the whole thing in HS - holy crap was it terrible. I read it because a young woman I liked a lot spoke highly of Ayn Rand - first read Anthem and found it bearable, but Atlas Shrugged? I want my life/time back.
Also never got the girl, lol.
It’s good to know that I absolutely should not go back and reread Go Ask Alice - read it when I was about 14 and I think I’ll keep it there now that I’m almost 50
It’s good to know that I absolutely should not go back and reread Go Ask Alice - read it when I was about 14 and I think I’ll keep it there now that I’m almost 50
Perfectly healthy, cope how you cope. Mine would be the Stephen Mitchell translation of the Tao Te Ching and some Kurt Vonnegut but mostly the Tao. I don’t know how many times I’ve reread it - possibly more than a hundred, possibly a lot more, short easy read. The closest book to that is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig at about 6 times.
Rumble Fish had that very effect on me. After that it was The Outsiders - both of which were reread many times. The movies also had a profound effect on me.