10 Books You Hated Reading In High School (Which May Actually Be Pretty Good)

Ugh, not another assigned reading. The language is hard to understand and nothing happens. But give it ten years, you might come to appreciate these classics (if you ever actually pick them up again, which you wont, but if you did...)

1. The Catcher in the Rye

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''If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.''

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"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice I've been turning over in my mind ever since."

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''You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain't no matter.''

4. The Scarlet Letter

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"A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes."

5. A Tale of Two Cities

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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."

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''It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.''

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"Call me Ishmael."

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"Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes."

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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."

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"A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hill-side bank and runs deep and green."