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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
LOTR was nothing compared to some the crap forced down our throats. Come on:
"A Separate Peace"?
"Catcher in the Rye?"
"The Old Man and the Sea"?
[And as I referred to earlier, I nearly burned down my high school for making us read that Dreiser book]
So go ahead - name the worst books your teachers forced you to read:
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A Separate Peace must have been the inspiration for Beaches.
I remember having to write an essay on Catcher in the RYe and the topic was "Holden (and I hope baby Coltrane doesnt get saddled with this name) found the word "grand" to be phony. What word do you think is phony?"
I somehow totally missed the point of this and thought grand was a phony word bc it had more than one meaning or something (imagine, me, not appreciating phoniness! Oh, the irony!). So I picked a word that similarly seemed overused, misused or abused. I wish I could remember what it was. Probably something like "Ping! Pow!
Other than that, I was pure genius as a child.
