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I was going through my paper mail this morning, and I found a letter from the school district where I used to do time as a kid. Apparently the high school English department head found out that I've written a couple of novels, and wants to make my first one required summer reading.
I'm horrified by this. I don't want a captive audience, and I don't want people to grow up despising my work because it was shoved down their throats at school. Save that shit for when I'm dead and buried, please.
@starbreaker I'm inclined to agree. English lessons when I was a kid have probably put me off of Shakespeare and Jane Austen for life.
Shakespeare should be seen on stage, or at least in a good film production, not read out of a book.
Jane Austen got more palatable after I discovered the BBC production of #PrideAndPrejudice via a girlfriend who encouraged me to think of it as a satire.
