I remember that I had to read it in HS English, along with other horrible books like The Octopus, The Scarlet Letter, etc. What was the point? I’ll never know.
What do you think would have been better reading material at the time?
LOL.
I was going to post,”When was it ever relevant?”.
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Probably one of the more painful books I ever had to read was in college - English lit to be exact.
It was Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
A truly miserable experience from start to finish. It was so frickin’ bad I even went to the bookstore and bought a copy of Cliff’s Notes.
If we ever decide to start torturing Gitmo detainees, this would be a good way to do it. Make them read it and then have to discuss it with an English Lit professor.