In high school, an older friend of mine told me to never read Ulysses outside of a class, and I've never had any real interest in reading Joyce. This whole "usage of a classic story you already love" has a definite draw, though. And I've been meaning to re/read The Odyssey (my mom read me a prose version when I was a kid) so this is an added incentive to do that.
Moby Dick doesn't even really make it onto my Classics I Should Have Read list because it's so long. A guy I knew in elementary school read it (when we were in elementary school!) which just boggled me, even as the precocious reader I was.
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Date: 2006-07-12 06:11 pm (UTC)Moby Dick doesn't even really make it onto my Classics I Should Have Read list because it's so long. A guy I knew in elementary school read it (when we were in elementary school!) which just boggled me, even as the precocious reader I was.