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...and I tended to prefer teachers who taught either Shakespeare or German writers, such as Hermann Hesse (in translation, of course; I don't speak German, wish I did).
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Odd that you say that, Arlyss. In my High School there were two cliques among the "brainy" kids: There was the LORD OF THE RINGS/DUNE crowd; and there was the Hermann Hesse group. The first were sort of geeky, techno-science types. The second were artsy, long-suffering-existentialist wannabes (kind of paleo-goths, really). I was among the latter.
Even though I became a fan of fantastic literature, I never got into LOTR until hearing that Mr. Lee was going to be starring in the film verision of the books. So, I first read LOTR two years ago. Interesting. . . I wonder how I would have responded to it as an adolescent?