The Secret Garden. I was 10 and the classic English didn’t make much sense at times. I didn’t understand why Mary “cried” when she seemed to be shouting. I didn’t understand what it meant for Mary to be “contrary”. But I read the book through and still enjoyed it.

A few years later I became an avid reader of classics and returned to The Secret Garden and was quite impressed that 10 year old me had read it and also that I could now understand all the archaic phrases that once puzzled me.

The second point annoys the hell out of me. And often it’s not one but two or three in succession while the guy requires no attention to his needs, he exists solely to pleasure the girl 🙄