npub1nxty7rc9fdtcf3mq83wp4jsxqm9yz209e6fjn0qkjgm542x23vpqma055a (npub1nxt…055a) I don’t consider myself a real member of #WritingCommunity, given I’ve never written anything longer than a toot, but as a boring white dude I’m never short of an opinion so let me hose you down with it anyway…
Despite being a voracious reader at that age (mostly sci fi, surprise surprise…) I was too uneducated in the ways of “official English literature” to be able to form any preconceptions, so just wrestled with whatever I was assigned. I *HATED* Jane Austen, for example, but Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” was a revelation. Oh and Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Inspector Hound” remains one of the cleverest plot twists / tying up of loose ends I’ve ever read. I would give my left nut to see it performed live!!
[edit] and having now read some of the other replies (and with the benefit of hindsight), I think being pushed out of my narrow comfort zone was one of the best things that happened to me at high school
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