I had to read a Wizard of Earthsea for school and HATED it (probably because I was expecting it to be like harry potter ngl). However, every discussion I’ve seen online about the best fantasy series almost always includes Earthsea, so I was wondering if I was just too young to appreciate it and should revisit it. I’ve heard similar things for Jane Eyre, which I also found boring but found out it’s apparently meant for middle-aged people.
In my high school senior English class we read A Modest Proposal and had to write our own version solving a modern problem.
I wrote mine on solving the overcrowding of prisions by building a prison on the moon. Since establishing a space colony is dangerous work, you use the death row inmates to do the construction, then just turn off the air supply. (More effective than lethal injection…)
I had not heard of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress at the time, but I did end up reading it soon after.
Outstanding. You had teachers that cared. Out of that list, A Modest Proposal was recommended to me by a history teacher, and Gulliver’s Travels was probably assigned reading at some point. I sought out the others on my own in my late teens.