[vjsc]

We had Charles Dickens's Great Expectations in school. I was mesmerised by the incredible storyline and the shocking twist at the end. It introduced me to western classic literature for the first time and I was really impressed.

Then in college, there was an ongoing bet that who could finish the entire unabridged version of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It tool me three months to read the whole of it. It changed me as a person and made me aware of the fact that the problems faced by humans haven't really changed over the centuries, but only their manifestation has changed as per the present times.

And what about The Count of Monte Cristo and other books by Alexander Dumas.

The list goes on ...

[cjslep]

I had the exact opposite experience reading Great Expectations in high school. To such a degree that even I recognize that my hatred of it is uncharacteristic of me.