Should school force kids to read Dostoevsky?
I ask this question because I was forced to read it. I hated every word he wrote. But for me, fat books and puberty just didn't get along - I had month to read Crime and Punishment and had barely passed the exam. It was almost a decade after high school that I peeked into The Gambler and got sucked into the world of brilliance this giant produced. But what if I wasn't alone in the cottage with a book on the table? If the circumstances of boredom didn't push his book into my hands I would probably never read him again. From this perspective it sounds terrible. And it's all because of school. It is why I ask if kids and teenagers should be compelled to read him?
I ask this question because I was forced to read it. I hated every word he wrote. But for me, fat books and puberty just didn't get along - I had month to read Crime and Punishment and had barely passed the exam. It was almost a decade after high school that I peeked into The Gambler and got sucked into the world of brilliance this giant produced. But what if I wasn't alone in the cottage with a book on the table? If the circumstances of boredom didn't push his book into my hands I would probably never read him again. From this perspective it sounds terrible. And it's all because of school. It is why I ask if kids and teenagers should be compelled to read him?