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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, and War and Peace were such significant books for me. I guess I like high drama in bad times in cold places.

But it's kind of sad this generation of kids is not going to read, much less be moved, by 19th Century literature. I think Gen X is the end for when literature mattered. [/quote]

Dorian Gray is my 16 year old’s favorite book. She’s read two others on that list (on her own, not for school), and I expect she’ll read more as she gets older.

These books generally aren’t assigned for school anymore, so they have to really be readers and seek them out, so yeah, not a huge number of kids doing that.[/quote]

They may get there. My freshman year, I took an amazing class centered on three novels, and at the end of the semester the professor gave us a list of suggested books to put on our "to read" list. I was inspired to read most of them, and I still have the list 39 years later.[/quote]

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