“It was some of the hardest reading I have ever done.”
I read “Animal Farm” and “1984” in high school. They really upset me at the time. The fact that the themes seems to show signs of taking place now upsets me more.
Read “Rules for Radical” when I was pregnant with my first along with every piece of political philosophy I could find at the library or on the internet back then (Prodigy! That’s were I first came across Free Republic.) So Rules didn’t bother me. It was their game plan and I needed to get a clue.
Khrushchev warned us in the 50’s that they would gets us through our schools. He wasn’t joking. Why Trump hasn’t gotten ridden on Common Core is beyond me.
I had my kids, when they were in high school, read Ayn Rand’s “Anthem”. Short, sweet, poignant lesson on collectivism.
It wasn’t that I couldn’t grasp it that made it hard to read...
In the case of “Rules for Radicals” it was the open, disgusting, and repulsive amorality that made me want to throw the book across the room. I still can’t believe people openly subscribe to it as Obama and Hillary do.
In the case of “Dreams from my Father”, it was nauseating leftist propaganda blather. And the thought of people lapping THAT up REALLY made me want to throw the book!