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Intruder in the Dust by Faulkner. I had to read it my junior year in high school, and to this day, I couldn't tell you what it was about or remember a single scene from the novel. I think it was the prose. I just couldn't parse his sentences.
We read other challenging stuff in high school English, including Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and tons and tons of poetry. Faulkner made me feel like an idiot, though.
Atlas Shrugged defeated me too. I just could not follow what was going on, nor was I engaged enough with the characters to even want to try. Years later, I learned that it was a sort of conservative manifesto or something, but I didn't get far enough into it to even pick that up.
We read other challenging stuff in high school English, including Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and tons and tons of poetry. Faulkner made me feel like an idiot, though.
Atlas Shrugged defeated me too. I just could not follow what was going on, nor was I engaged enough with the characters to even want to try. Years later, I learned that it was a sort of conservative manifesto or something, but I didn't get far enough into it to even pick that up.
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