[Little Ray]

I think this happened to me - I don't like Dickens, or Melville or Tolstoy - BORING. It seemed to me that school literature courses always picked the most boring possible books and short stories (imagine someone finding a boring Thurber story...). The only story I remember, that I liked was "The Most Dangerous Game."
If kids have to read "classics" they ought to let them read Doyle, Wren, Wells, Verne, Henty, Buchan, and the like.

The fact that Literature class was boring didn't stop me from making A's or B's, though!

[linda_22003]

I did have Jules Verne in school, and a romp through most of the Sherlock Holmes stories, in 7th grade English. Am I alone in this?