Oh, I'm Sure.

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ohoho! This is pretty good!

Thanks! I got inspired when re-watching movie. I bought that and a nice edition of the book recently.

It's depressing if you have knowledge of the book "Of Mice and Men"

That's one of those books that makes people consider that book-burning has some good points after all...

Like, from depression or what?

To save future generations of high school litrachah students from having to read it...

I read this one on my own. Not sure why it wasn't required reading where I went to school.

Why?

heh. Just a personal preference, I suppose. Most of the classics we had to read in English I considered dreary, depressing, or just plain dull. For some reason our school skipped over EVERYTHING in the anthology books that I liked. Even Twain, who I like 99% of? Let's read his worst book ever! Shakespeare? Let's do Romeo and Juliet, where EVERYONE in the cast is carrying not one, but TWO idiot balls, and ignore the Tempest, the histories, and Hamlet. We did get MacBeth, at least.

They’re considered dreary or dull mainly because we’ve gotten used to the fast passes writing of TV, which got its origins in radio. Everything has to be wrapped up in 30 minutes or less, with 99% of shows being episodic with little character development that carries on past that one. It’s one issue a lot of people had with Fantastic Beasts 2; it was written by a book author, so it drags in places for the sake of world building and character development, which works in books, but not on screen.
Also… humans are amazing at carrying multiple idiot balls in real life. Major criticisms of TV and movies is that the conflicts created would be solved by communication, but look at how much drama is created by people that fail to communicate.

I graduated high school in 1975. I was quite fond of reading, not addicted to TV timeframes, but THOSE books? I was convinced literature class was to convince kids NOT to read.

Well, as long as said book is able to capture the attention of the kid reading, the tone or outcome of the story shouldn't matter. The issue with English classes is they would most of the time assign reading material that most kids in that age range could give less of a shit about. A lot of that had to do with writing style. I'm not going to make junior high students read Charles Dickens (unless they wanted to). I'd have em read something like Call of the Wild or Of Mice and Men; the books aren't too long, and the way the characters speak is generally more relatable. If I were an English teacher I would try to keep that in mind and push for books kids would have a vested interest in. Hell, maybe even try and find out what may appeal to each individual kid.

I think my English teacher only assigned it because it was shorter than "Grapes of Wrath" and our integrated U.S. History class had gotten up to the Great Depression.

That's one I gotta read next, after I get done with this other book by Solzhenitsyn.

It's one of my favorite books. The 1992 movie was a great adaptation, too.

hand over the tiny human

HA!

HA! What I was thinking, too! :D

George is just nipping this problem in the bud.

A classic literature fan, are we? :)

You know it.

East of Eden next, please!

Haven't read that one yet, but I did finish 'Once There Was a War' by the same author.
The Grapes of Wrath is next on the list.

A very depressing book. But that's what the author wanted.
And tbh I enjoyed reading this in school a lot more than Shakespeare.

I think Steinbeck tended to write very 'straight and to the point', very much like how your average person speaks.

And I read it in their voices, too!

Good. :)

https://youtu.be/gKxrJQlSMXs?t=63

See, I read Of Mice and Men years later after watching all these, then I was like... 'OHHH! I get it...'

Yup, yup, yup!