Riali wrote:The Motions chap's list made me laugh. How many 16 or 17 year olds can get through Ulysses with any sort of understanding? Not a whole helluva lot, I think.
I've never read it so I don't understand. Is it hard to follow or...?
Riali wrote:The Motions chap's list made me laugh. How many 16 or 17 year olds can get through Ulysses with any sort of understanding? Not a whole helluva lot, I think.
kezmondo wrote:Riali wrote:The Motions chap's list made me laugh. How many 16 or 17 year olds can get through Ulysses with any sort of understanding? Not a whole helluva lot, I think.
I've never read it so I don't understand. Is it hard to follow or...?
rats_rox wrote:I am very proud to say that I am reading Wuthering Heights at the moment. We had free choice of a pre-20th century novel for our GCSE and I chose that. Proving to be very good so far!
Enitharmon wrote:rats_rox wrote:I am very proud to say that I am reading Wuthering Heights at the moment. We had free choice of a pre-20th century novel for our GCSE and I chose that. Proving to be very good so far!
It's a cracker. I can't understand why people shy away from it.
Enitharmon wrote:It's a cracker. I can't understand why people shy away from it.
Aletheia Dolorosa wrote:Also, strangely enough, I think it's better to read it as a teenager. I read it first when I was 14 and loved it, and I read it again this year and while I still enjoyed it, I think as a teenager I was better able to appreciate the emotion of it. When I read it as a 22-year-old, I wasn't able to identify passionately with the characters and what had seemed like profound love seemed more like pathological...cruelty, I guess. I suppose I was just reading it with different eyes.
Aletheia Dolorosa wrote:Enitharmon wrote:It's a cracker. I can't understand why people shy away from it.
Also, strangely enough, I think it's better to read it as a teenager. I read it first when I was 14 and loved it, and I read it again this year and while I still enjoyed it, I think as a teenager I was better able to appreciate the emotion of it. When I read it as a 22-year-old, I wasn't able to identify passionately with the characters and what had seemed like profound love seemed more like pathological...cruelty, I guess. I suppose I was just reading it with different eyes.
Enitharmon wrote:I bet Andrew Motion regularly revisits his choices. I'm sure Philip Pullman has very find memories of the Family Moomintroll but I doubt very much if if picks it up to re-read when he goes on holiday.
eggnostic wrote:What is a schoolchild? Elementary School?
Tuck Everlasting
If all kids read this in say... 3rd grade the world would be marvelously better.
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