So, My husband has been trying to get me to read “The Lottery“ since we met (he used to teach it in his college course). I ended up downloading this #Audio (to listen while I was organizing my reading room #2024Goal). I don't get it! I mean, I haven't gotten to the “The Lottery“ yet, but a lot of these stories (although beautifully written) don't go anywhere. I just, I don't know. Is this over my head? Is this anyone else's experience?
TheBookHippie I DNF and I love her![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
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Dark TalesTheBookHippie So 😝🤦🏻♀️😂😅🤷🏻♀️ 11mo
IndoorDame I HATE The Lottery, but it was part of my 6th grade curriculum, not college, and I‘m a firm believer that you ruin classics by trying to teach them too young, so it might be a case of #itsmenotthebook 🤷🏻♀️ 11mo
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dabbe I had to read it for AP Lit in high school and it absolutely stunned me and is my fave story of hers (along with the novel THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE). I agree with @IndoorDame; it's a story for an older audience. The story “A Rose for Emily“ by Faulkner also affected me in the same way. Yet some of her other writings, I'm like #wtf as well. Is it too much to say her writings are mercurial? 11mo
IndoorDame @dabbe LOVE The Haunting of Hill House! So I think we‘re all agreed on mercurial, even if we‘re not in sync about which pieces speak to us. 11mo
ElizaMarie @IndoorDame I agree. I love to read, but most of the time, when I had required reading, I loathed the books! Maybe it was part of my stubbornness? 11mo
ElizaMarie @dabbe I haven't gotten to the Lottery yet, so far, it's all the other stories that are so confusing to me. I did love the Haunting of Hill House, and We Have Always Lived in a Castle, so... I have high hopes, just some of these other ones... it's odd. 11mo
ElizaMarie @TheBookHippie Yay! I am glad I am not the only one! I will check out the book you tagged. 11mo
Suet624 I‘m laughing because I came to see what others thought of this book. I have the exact same feelings as you. What the heck is it with these stories?? 8mo
ElizaMarie @Suet624 Ooo!!! I love that it wasn't just me!!!! 8mo
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