What high school required reading have you reread/considered rereading?
If you have reread it, did you like it better (or at all) as a teenager or as an adult?
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@Loffreni somehow I was never assigned Catch-22. I might have to give that one a go. I reread 1984 back in 2016. Dark times call for dark reads. 😳😬 That was the spark that re-ignited my love for dystopian and speculative fiction.
@MotherDucker nothing that's currently on the high school reading list. I have high schoolers, and their required reading is depressing AF. I've actually written to the school board to complain. Every book is full of graphic violence, hopelessness, suicide, rape. Supposed to teach "human condition," but is there a way to do that without so much darkness? #cosobookclub
@CarmenSlamdiego yikes! What titles are they reading? I hope there is some kind of light at the end of the tunnel theme to them at least. Like not just “shit sucks then you die.”
@MotherDucker Things Fall Apart (African colonialism and domestic violence), The Lottery (senseless violence), 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Behind the Beautiful Forevers (horrifying effects of extreme poverty),
Joy Luck Club (rape, spousal abuse, suicide), Woman Warrior (violence and suicide), The Road (cannibalism and violence), The Dutch House( parental abandonment and emotional manipulation/abuse). My kids are highly sensitive people who love to read, but hate lit for this reason.
@MotherDucker The only required book that comes to mind is The Great Gatsby. I didn't care for it then, but I think I'd like it now. Ninth grade was probably too early.
There are a few books I didn't like then that I don't think I'd like now, either --Catcher in the Rye comes to mind.
@MotherDucker Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5. I wasn't _much_ older when I reread it. I liked it a lot on both reads; can't really say one was better than the other at this remove.
@MotherDucker Shakespeare is probably the only thing I've reread from HS. I definitely enjoy it better/understand it more as an adult.
@MotherDucker ive never reread either, but both Hellers Catch 22 and Shutes On the Beach made lasting impressions on me. I really should reread both.