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In a message dated 01/19/2003 2:06:01 PM Eastern Standard Time,
abtleo@... writes:

> Sounds fun. I think the only Kurt Vonnegut book I've ever read is Slaughter
> House 5, which put me off him for a long time. Required reading for a
> literature course. I wonder how many other authors have been ruined for
> people reading them when they didn't wanna.

Brenda,
Oh how true. I remember my 11th grade English teacher ruining many a good
book. Everything we read had a God/Jesus symbolism in it whether it did or
not. All those horrible papers in which we had to talk about symbolism that I
didn't agree with. I sure could make it up though.

Huck Finn was one of the books. The kids and I recently listened to it on
tape. What a fun book. I didn't remember most of it because it had been
ruined for me. I'm glad my kids got to enjoy it without having to dissect it
or write a paper. The tape even started off with a warning not to try to find
the symbolism in the book but to just enjoy it. Why didn't/don't all those
teachers listen? My kids had a ball listening to Huck's adventures. We had
discussions, but they were natural not forced.

It took me thirty years, but it's fun to read or listen to those books
now.

Ginny






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