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Originally posted by Dave P in StLouis
Dear Dan,
I sympathize. Shakespeare's plays (which are what most of us read in school) are not meant to be read as literature -- they're scripts, intended for actors, directors, etc. I was never any good at doing "assigned reading" either. In one class in college, "Stranger in a Strange Land," by Robert A. Heinlein, was required reading. Even though I'd been wanting to read it for quite a while, I couldn't manage to finish it, LOL.
Best wishes,
David P.
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It's probably not so much WHAT you read in school that makes it hard, it's probably more the fact that you HAVE to read it. I read for pleasure, and sometimes for information, but if I had to read something to analyse it and maybe write a critique on it or suchlike it's quite probable that I would dislike reading even my favourite authors.
When I look back on it I'm surprised that school didn't kill my love of reading!