Quote: "Now we are talking about normal books, fiction, not typical school books"
I didn't mind most of the normal school books. What did get on my nerves were things like being assigned to read Romeo & Juliet or a novel then the teacher trying to tell the class how to interpret it. Unless you have the author right there telling you what it means, or writings by them doing the same, you don't know jack BLEEP. And of course, some seem to think everything has a meaning - as if people don't just write or paint because they enjoy it. I actually had one assignment to read a book, which I thought was junk and didn't finish. When asked to give a report in front of the class I presented what I had read then went on to describe why I didn't finish. Needless to say, the snotty stereotypical artsy-type teacher didn't like it at all.
A book or work of art could be trying to say something amazing, but if I think it looks like crap (see Picasso and the like) then the message doesn't matter. People don't need some snot telling them what something means, or even assuming they care.
These subjective classes always got on my nerves even though some writings were good reads. Creative writing, on the other hand, was a very fun class where I learned a lot about proper grammar and punctuation. I learned more from that than I did grammar/English classes.
Quote: ""WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?! WE HAVE TO REEEAD!? AWWWW""
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