Me too. Started with Treasure Island after I taught myself to read by memorizing the children’s books my mom would read to me.
Didn’t get to Frankenstein till I was in college but I actually wrote an entire essay on it as an allegory for creation but also as an allegory for man’s desire to overcome death by creating something they would come to worship in a sense, in this case scientism.
wow WOKE nerd actually READS BOOK
I was reading chapter books when I was 5, I had to do for myself what my USAan schools refused to
Me too. Started with Treasure Island after I taught myself to read by memorizing the children’s books my mom would read to me.
Didn’t get to Frankenstein till I was in college but I actually wrote an entire essay on it as an allegory for creation but also as an allegory for man’s desire to overcome death by creating something they would come to worship in a sense, in this case scientism.
That’s because the USian schools were trying to teach you the winners mindset of delegating your readungs to some egghead at coles notes.