Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

it's funny cause when i was in high school and they'd make us read books/stories i always dreaded it. i would sparknote that **** every single time. i tried reading the books at first but they were so deathly boring that i couldn't handle it. the only book that school ever forced me to read that i enjoyed was animal farm.

lord of the flies... beowulf... anything shakespeare related... anything holocaust related... mango street.... shoot me in the ****ing face before forcing me to read this crap lol

then just as i graduated i ended up reading the grapes of wrath on my own in my spare time, cause i wanted to try to enjoy reading. and that book was amazing. and i wondered why they never bothered to force me to read it. and from there i learned about a bunch of classic books/authors that i enjoyed that would have been perfectly appropriate for school that were never even mentioned in my english classes.