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Message: [QUOTE="trickybus, post: 241863, member: 239542"] Books I read for leisure I tend to finish as I know what I like—history, fantasy/fiction, and especially historical fiction. The earliest exception to that was Charles Dickens' [I]Great Expectations[/I] because I picked that one up way before I had the vocabulary to get through it without stopping to look up every other word. Can't say I regret it because while it's considered a classic, it runs contrary to my literary tastes. Nearly all of the books I ended up putting down were mandatory reads that were either too dry or written by loonies. In high school, I suffered all the way through [I]Atlas Shrugged[/I] until I got to John Galt's speech near the end. I looked ahead to discover that his speech was several, droning pages long and tapped out right there. No regrets. [I]Grapes of Wrath[/I] was a mandatory read that bored me to tears. I wouldn't be able to summarize it for you because I think my mind black-holed it for my sanity. [/QUOTE]

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