591 sats \ 1 reply \ @0fje0 18 Nov 2023 \ on: First "adult" book you read voluntarily? meta
My first was Lord of the Flies by William Golding,
An older sibling had the book prescribed at university and told me it was "about kids on an island". Well, I was a kid and it sounded like fun, so I read it.
At 14, I didn't want to believe that kids would actually behave the way Golding described it. Sort of a rude awakening for me.
Lord of the Flies was actually one of our novel study books in my grade 10 (15-16 year olds) English class. I really enjoyed reading that book. Those boys really went berserk on that island.
Come to think of it, my grade 9 and grade 10 English class teachers were pretty hardcore back then. We read To Kill a Mocking Bird, Watership Down, Romeo and Juliet, in grade 9 (14-15 year olds); and we had McBeth, Lord of the Flies, and one other novel that I forgot about in grade 10. I think it was always 2 novels and 1 Shakespeare for the year in terms of literary studies.
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