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Every class, even math, was tailored around people with weak reading skills. So we'd have to stay on a subject longer than usual because we had to keep explaining things to the idiots.

Actually yeah. In my senior history class we had to do a book report on any historical subject we chose. However we could only choose from those like ten page early reader books you give to first graders. When I asked why I was told, it was because no everyone in our class could read above that reading level. 17-19 year olds who could not fucking read.

Yeah I didn't have the balls to do that. The book I was reading was inappropriate, but I found a few pages that weren't too dirty. Especially since I'd been in trouble for that before.

In middle school I did a book report on Queen of the Damned, and got banned from being Anne Rice to school.

-sigh- some idiot in HS used it for their weekly read. Basically our teacher had us read one or two pages out loud to the class from a book we were reading. I felt myself getting dumber as they read on.

Yeah I just pretend all that shit doesn't exist.

You mean like Nathaniel Hawthorne? Dude who wrote The Scarlet Letter, he was soooooo bad about overexplaining things. And in Early colonial English too. In his book The House of Seven Gables, he spent three pages describing a freaking room. One freaking room.

He's not Stephen King bad, but not too far away from it.

Supposed to have 256 pages.

I've tried: American Gods and Stardust, couldn't get all the way through either. Did get all the way through Coraline, and hated the lead all the way through the book. Neil Gaiman is one of those authors that feel the need to overexplain all the things.

I can understand that.

>w> Didn't like that book either, was the first one I could get all the way through though. The entire time I wanted Coraline to get freaking eaten, she's such a bratty lead to follow. LOVE the movie though.

Stardust the book is awful. It's slow and boring as fuck. But there is a lot more to it in the book than the cut to pieces movie (which I prefer). I'm biased though, since I don't like any of Neil Gaiman's books.

I wasn't planning on the August trip, but someone offered me a ride and room.

Fair enough. ^w^ I have two, maybe three, this year. One on the 24th of March so not too far away, and another in August.