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1983549 No.1983549 [Reply] [Original]

>that feel when you stopped reading in High School because the books weren't interesting enough, too easy for you, etc, and you missed out on a lot of great books.

Why have/did you stop reading?

>> No.1983552

I have to say, the excuse that the work is "too easy for you" has got to be the top bullshit excuse for why people are lazy in school.

>> No.1983554

I never read any of the French or Russian realists because I considered the genre too dreary, long-winded and heavy with description.

>> No.1983557

The thing about ignorance is you can't know how much you are missing.

>> No.1983559

Uh, I read in school to avoid paying attention to classes. So, no, I didn't miss on great books, but I did miss the order of the months and the order of the alphabet. Not to mention pretty much everything else.

>> No.1983562

>>1983552
I get the "It's not interesting" bit, since I passed on a few books, but I completely agree on the "too easy for me". Some book about Bean Trees, to kill a mockingbird, and Siddhartha. Anytime I ever see someone with Siddhartha, I make it a point to be a pretentious twat and point out that the book is a read for confused teens who lash out at Christianity for whatever reason.

>> No.1983565

eareiver

>> No.1983574

I never stopped. This seems like a strange question to ask on /lit/ really.

>> No.1983575

>>1983549
I never stopped reading. If I did I would have killed myself, reading was the only thing I lived/live for.

>> No.1983576

>>1983552
This

Every single parent wants to believe their child doesn't do well because they are simply too smart. I did poorly in school cause I was a lazy fucking little shit.

As far as high school books.

God Tier:
The Things They Carried

High Tier:
Frankenstein, Hamlet, The Divine Comedy

Mid Tier:
Anything by Steinbeck, Any of the several historical novels about black people

Shit Tier:
The Great Gatsby, The Scarlet Letter

>> No.1983586

No I didn't

Though I took a break to recover from the piece of shit that is Siddhartha.

Fuck that book, the author hadn't even gone to India.

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1983591

> mfw nobody in my class could get through Sound and the Fury
> mfw it was already one of my favorites

I'm really thankful for some the books I read in high school - I didn't ever even consider reading Frankenstein, oh boy but when I did, what a novel.

>> No.1983597

I never really liked English/American literature, and that was all we ever read, so I quickly skimmed through them all(they all had pretty basic story structures) while I read other books.

>> No.1983608

>>1983597
What country's/kind of literature do you like then?

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1983620

>The Scarlet Letter

i tried, but not very hard. i'm sorry. i think i read half of it

>> No.1983624

>>1983608
Slavic, German, surreal.

>> No.1983629

Stopped reading when I started working. No time to get through an entire book any more. feels bad man

>work all week
>get pissed on the weekend
>repeat

>> No.1983632

>>1983624
Have any Bulgarian or Croatian lit recs? I'm going to be checking into Ivo Andrić and Miroslav Krleža soon, but I'd like to know more.

>> No.1983638

>>1983629
What do you do on weekday evenings? That's when i find time to read.

>> No.1983656

>>1983624
>>1983632
Or, honestly, any introductory recs for Slavic literature barring Czech, Polish and Russian, which I think I'm decently knowledgeable about already (but I wouldn't mind recs there either).