/lit/ - Literature

>>15155693
There is group reading of moby dick planned for the month of may, but group reading of other things as well could help us to keep up after

the more i read moby dick as an adult, the more i realize that i could not possibly have understood it as a high schooler. this has me thinking - a huge amount of canonical works are forcefed to teenagers to whom they have no relevance because of lack of requisite life experience, and it diminishes people's interest in reading. the alternative, though, is ya fiction that makes people think they have an affinity for reading when in reality they just want television b-plots and genre bullshit that makes them feel superior since it's on a printed page. how would you go about fixing school curricula to inspire a lifelong interest in literature given these two premises? feel free to dispute either or both of them, but try to gear your answers towards capturing the average high schooler instead of just hooking precocious ones.