Yip, we all have them. Sadly I think that for those who weren't readers before school this could be a make or break for developing a
love of literature.
Thankfully I was a reader before the dreaded English
Class leapt upon me.
But, it still well and truly killed me love of some
books.
So, shall we begin?
Goodnight
Mr Tom
I used to like this but now I can’t even watch it all the
way through when the film comes onto the TV. The number of times we read and
re-read passages in class because the teacher wasn’t keeping record of where we
were in it *shiver* I have never been so glad to get to the end of required
read before in my life.
Next up.
Short
Stories
Why do English teachers seem to think it is their duty to
find the worst short stories and poetry in existence to make their students
study. First of all if you are going to pick a story to have them do make sure
they understand it. As in don’t have half the text in freaking Gaelic! (Long
story, I won’t bore you with that one). But really, iy must be some kind of undisputable
law of the universe, or all of my teachers are sadistic and got some kind of
twisted enjoyment out of boring us stupid.
Of
Mice and Men
Yes, I get this is a classic, highly regarded and all
that jazz but I HATED it. I hated it the first time we had to read it and by
the time we were done studying it that feeling was fully ingrained.
And the last one that I can bring to mind isn’t a novel
but a play. And once again it is a classic.
A
Streetcar Named Desire
I have NEVER in my life hated a fictional man so much as
I did Stanley and it tainted my enjoyment of the entire play. I despised him. And want to know that is truly disturbing? His kind
of characteristics seem to ne seeping into the ‘hero’ characters of a few books
I have been reading. Hell no. That IS
NOT attractive one little bit people!
So there we have it. The book that thanks to repetitive
reading in a short period of time I cannot stand now.
I will say though (before I leave you in peace) that one
thing my English class in secondary school did was give me a love of
Shakespeare.
I really enjoyed Of Mice and Men... but I ended up reading it at home on my own because my teacher, like yours, could never remember where we were in the book and never accepted anyone's help when they tried to explain where they were!
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