I’m re-reading Call of the Wild<\/i> right now. Which got me to thinking about books you read in junior high and high school which made little to no impression on you, and then you went back and re-read them, as an adult, and realized: MAN, these are actually GREAT books!!<\/p>\n
One of the main examples of that, for me, is Moby Dick<\/i>. I had to read it on the summer reading list, and I remember sitting on the beach with my friends, a week before the start of school, reading that damn BORING BOOK – a book that had NO GIRLS IN IT (the woman ladling out chowder in the beginning DOESN’T COUNT) … We speed-read it, over that last week, grumbling, moaning, etc.<\/p>\n
I re-read it again in 2000, I think and it is, by far, one of the greatest and weirdest and most exciting books I have ever read.<\/p>\n
Another one is Tess of the D’Urbervilles<\/i>. I KNOW I read the damn thing in high school … but not one word of it stuck with me. It was one big stupid YAWN.<\/p>\n
I re-read it 2 years ago, and there were sections of it which brought me to tears. Terrific book.<\/p>\n
Any of you care to talk about the books you went back to re-read, only to find that suddenly they were GREAT, as opposed to boring and pointless?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m re-reading Call of the Wild right now. Which got me to thinking about books you read in junior high and high school which made little to no impression on you, and then you went back and re-read them, as … Continue reading