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Originally Posted by mobertol
Bit savage! Most of the books they make you read at school are hated by students - i was one of the luckier ones who liked most of them -hated Dickens though because the teacher (traditional Miss Bailey) wanted you to memorize passages and i was never good at that. Made it hard work but the stories are really good.
A lot of teachers kill Shakespeare but we were lucky to have a Mrs Bradshaw who was a fantastic teacher and brought it alive. :  |
Hated books at school - loved plays and poetry. Books were mainly Dickens, Austen, Jane Eyre - still can't stand Dickens or Bronte. Nothing 20th century at all. Fortunately our O level text was Northanger Abbey - nice and short, managed to read that otherwise I wouldn't have passed. Got my lowest O level mark in Eng Lit, highest in Eng Lang! Love all Austen now though.