too real! Library Comic #331

[orangerful]

THIS omg THIS

I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to say that "video games" line to a parent who insists on stopping their child from reading the book they picked out and WANT to read. *sigh*

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[orangerful]

Yeah, I am of the mindset that just let people read what they want. I think the reason I have such disdain for classics is that I was forced to read them in school when my maturity level was nowhere near what it would be to appreciate Bronte or Austen or Dickens. And now I just get angry when I see them because I think of high school LOL.

My parents never stopped me from reading anything I wanted. My Mom said she could tell if I was going to make it through a book on my own and didn't really worry about inappropriate material and so on.

Don't even get my STARTED on having teens READ Shakespeare, something that is meant to be seen and heard. :|

[beccadg]

I wanted to get back to this sooner, but with mom and my ongoing health issues...

I think the reason I have such disdain for classics is that I was forced to read them in school when my maturity level was nowhere near what it would be to appreciate Bronte or Austen or Dickens

Ah. I didn't read until I was 8, but by the time they put me through a battery of IQ tests to decide if I should be placed in the Gifted and Talented program at the Junior High I was off the top of their reading comprehension scale. They had to just call it "college." I loved reading Jane Eyre in High School. Course I was puzzled about why we had to read The Great Gatsby in High School. I didn't get that until I read it again in College.

Don't even get my STARTED on having teens READ Shakespeare, something that is meant to be seen and heard. :|

Well, in my high school we didn't do full stagings of every play, but we did always read the plays aloud? I remember how frustrated my High School Freshman English class was that I got out of the class in the middle of Romeo and Juliet when I'd been the one reading Juliet. I also remember having been amused Sophmore year of High School that, while I was usually out sick a lot, it was the kid who was supposed to be reading Mark Antony that was out sick a lot, so I got to read most of Mark Antony as well as Julius Caesar himself. Of course, as I've said, my reading comprehension was off the scale before High School.

Just, I was suicidal Freshman year of High School, and I'm positive Jane Eyre, Hamlet, and my dad getting me into a College Creative Writing course saved my life. Hell, my love of Hamlet is so deep that after I performed Hamlet's "To Be or Not To Be" soliloquy for my Junior year acting course in College, and the professor allowed students to comment, one of them declared, "I finally get Shakespeare!" One of my favorite moments from College. I got an A for that course.

[orangerful]

I keep meaning to go back to "Gatsby" because I remember liking it in high school but don't ask my anything about it now LOL. I guess the immaturity of a lot of people with too much time on their hands clicked with me more than some orphan kid running around Victorian London?

I love Shakespeare but I've always been a nerd who rented the DVD from the library to see the plays. I think when the kids read the plays now, they do read them out loud in school but I have seen a few teachers give them as summer assignment reads and that's usually when I roll my eyes.