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To: Billthedrill; carton253

I liked Huckleberry Finn as a teenager, when we were assigned it...I liked most of the assigned reading, in fact.

But you are right, today Huckleberry Finn towers above alot of the other stuff we had to read, which includes Mockingbird, though I admit to not having reread that one...or Moby Dick either(!).

One thing about assigned reading in the early 60’s, most of the books were good reads at least. My kids were in high school in the 90’s; seeing the tedious stuff they were assigned, I couldn’t help thinking that the English department was doing its best to make the kids hate reading forever.


168 posted on 04/06/2007 11:16:08 AM PDT by Sam Cree (absolute reality)
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To: Sam Cree

Sad to say, I have never read Huckleberry Finn. I will have to make it a point to do so.


169 posted on 04/06/2007 11:17:36 AM PDT by carton253 (Not enough space to express how I truly feel.)
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