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MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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Goofyernmost said:
I have a grandson that hates to read and I have offered it to him to read if he wanted too. He still hasn't wanted to. He is going into 11th grade next fall and planning on college after. We are all trying to get the message across that there will be a lot of reading in college and maybe he would be doing himself a favor to get in the habit now. That was about the time that I found that book.
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Just a passing thought here. Some people actually do better in college if they go to work for a year after finishing high school. Of course, I don't know your grandson, but I was thinking that working a year might give him a new perspective. I knew some guys that did this after high school, and they were glad they did. Gave them some time to decide if they really wanted 4 years of studying, etc., while also making some money that year. All graduated from college.
 
StarWarsGirl

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Goofyernmost said:
I didn't care for reading when I was younger. I don't remember ever reading anything of depth until High School. Even then it was mostly James Bond paperbacks. I used to even do book reports on those books. My father could never pass up one of those "club" things and signed up for a book club. He loved reading. One day when just casually looking through a new shipment of books he had received I happened upon a book by Robert Wilder entitled "Wind from the Carolina's" I read the first page and had to continue. It is a historical fiction about a family the lived in the Carolina's at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. He was a plantation owner and he decided to move everything, his entire plantation, including his house to a piece of land in the Bahama's on Great Exuma. It went to 6 or so generations of the same family eventually ending back in the Carolina's again. It was fascinating and it started the ability for me to actually picture the story in my head while reading the words. Apparently, I wasn't able to do that early on. I have read that book, I don't know how many times. Even to the point of my first one falling apart. A friend of mine was able to locate another copy on line that was still holding together. It never escapes my thoughts that I now live in the Carolina's. Not sure if it's just coincidence or not.

I have a grandson that hates to read and I have offered it to him to read if he wanted too. He still hasn't wanted to. He is going into 11th grade next fall and planning on college after. We are all trying to get the message across that there will be a lot of reading in college and maybe he would be doing himself a favor to get in the habit now. That was about the time that I found that book.
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It's my opinion that school really teaches you to hate reading. Seriously, there's very few books that I actually liked in high school whereas now I'm a definite bookwork. Why is it that every book we read from middle school on have to end badly or be depressing to be considered good literature? There's exceptions, like Huck Finn, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and cube, but in general, the books they forced onto us never got me excited about reading. Even Shakespeare. Shakespeare can be hysterical when you watch it or read it aloud for the full effect. But having to read it in a book and decifer it, it's no wonder kids learn to hate it.

In college, I had a class where we got to read a graphic novel about the Holocaust. We had another elective class entirely based on the Hunger Games. I don't understand why they can't throw in more interesting reads along with some of the classics they insisted on torturing us with. Then maybe we'd have more open minded students instead of ones who dread picking up books.
 
The Mom

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StarWarsGirl said:
It's my opinion that school really teaches you to hate reading. Seriously, there's very few books that I actually liked in high school whereas now I'm a definite bookwork. Why is it that every book we read from middle school on have to end badly or be depressing to be considered good literature? There's exceptions, like Huck Finn, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and cube, but in general, the books they forced onto us never got me excited about reading. Even Shakespeare. Shakespeare can be hysterical when you watch it or read it aloud for the full effect. But having to read it in a book and decifer it, it's no wonder kids learn to hate it.

In college, I had a class where we got to read a graphic novel about the Holocaust. We had another elective class entirely based on the Hunger Games. I don't understand why they can't throw in more interesting reads along with some of the classics they insisted on torturing us with. Then maybe we'd have more open minded students instead of ones who dread picking up books.
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I remember my daughter saying that "If I have to read one more "coming of age book" about someone close to you dying I'm going to scream."
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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StarWarsGirl said:
It's my opinion that school really teaches you to hate reading. Seriously, there's very few books that I actually liked in high school whereas now I'm a definite bookwork. Why is it that every book we read from middle school on have to end badly or be depressing to be considered good literature? There's exceptions, like Huck Finn, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and cube, but in general, the books they forced onto us never got me excited about reading. Even Shakespeare. Shakespeare can be hysterical when you watch it or read it aloud for the full effect. But having to read it in a book and decifer it, it's no wonder kids learn to hate it.

In college, I had a class where we got to read a graphic novel about the Holocaust. We had another elective class entirely based on the Hunger Games. I don't understand why they can't throw in more interesting reads along with some of the classics they insisted on torturing us with. Then maybe we'd have more open minded students instead of ones who dread picking up books.
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One of my favorite books that I had to read either in 8th or 9th grade was “All Quiet on the Western Front”. Couldn’t put it down. I pretty much hated most books forced upon us also. I hated John Steinbeck books the most, and those seemed quite favored. Since my kids didn’t like Huck Finn I really didn’t want to force it on them. I started reading it and understood. It would have been painful for us all.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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The Mom said:
I remember my daughter saying that "If I have to read one more "coming of age book" about someone close to you dying I'm going to scream."
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If these books were to be taken literally.. There would be no survivors on earth XD

No seriously, whasup with these books always having some sort of dark event? Probably is on the top most overused techniques of literature for "family" books.
 
StarWarsGirl

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
One of my favorite books that I had to read either in 8th or 9th grade was “All Quiet on the Western Front”. Couldn’t put it down. I pretty much hated most books forced upon us also. I hated John Steinbeck books the most, and those seemed quite favored. Since my kids didn’t like Huck Finn I really didn’t want to force it on them. I started reading it and understood. It would have been painful for us all.
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Ugh! Hated John Steinbeck. I don't really remember what his books were about, but I remember them being depressing.

I never had to read All Quiet on the Western Front.
 

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