Almost ashamed to say I never read it. My early reading was mostly comic books, like Archie, Superman, Fantastic Four and when my parents sent me to bed out came MAD magazine from below my bed. My love of reading did not begin until my teens.
>Almost ashamed
Well, don’t.
Contrary to popular opinion, nothwithstanding its long term spot on the American curricula, and the enthusiasm for it among the educators, is in my not so humble opionion highly, highly overrated.
Found it tedious, pedantic, and simply put, boring when it was assigned to me to read.
A completely self absorbed, navel watching self conscious book that predated the self obsessed movement that came later.
Instead, schoolchildren should read something like CS Forester’s The Gun.
Or at least something with such a depressing and boring protagonist.
Don’t be ashamed, I started with all those comic books..and I still have alot of them. Still love them. It was just the book that started me on my love of reading, I’m sure if you think about it, you’ll remember that book that first hooked you.