[KarlInOhio]

It was one of my "forced to read in high school" books. Oddly, 1984 was a required book in a class but I loved it and still regularly quote from it.

I really should reread it and a few others to see if my hatred was from being forced to read it, just not understanding it at fifteen or if I will continue to hate it.

[Fiji Hill]

I also read it in high school. I didn't like it, but I did like Moby-Dick (New York: Harper, 1851), which I read in the same class. This was long before they dumbed down the high school English curriculum in California.