“I’ve read quite a bit, but we never did Dickens in my English classes, and I wanted to fill a hole.”
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Nor did I.
We were too busy reading liberal fave, POS downers like “Catcher in the Rye”, and other “daring” and “edgy” crapola.
I had Tess of the D’Urbervilles.
Although I am thankful I got read Brave New World and Solzhenitsyn.
‘Catcher in the Rye’ is wonderful and pops on lists of favorite conservative novels.