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(09-16-2015 03:04 AM)The Beast1 Wrote:  

I know quite a few english majors. Each one of them described how their teachers destroyed their love of reading from just sheer book overload. Assigning 4-5 books to read in a month, expecting 100 read pages a night. This is all on top of other BS from other classes because liberal arts is so important (read filling in the mistakes of the k12 experience).

Frankly most later 20th century authors are trash and I enjoy reading. My AP lit class destroyed my love of reading.

Hah! I was an English major. It worked out to 3-4 books a week, between all your classes. I transferred from an all right school to a really good school, and this was the biggest difference at first; my reading had tripled. You are right, it wasn't pleasure reading at that point. The upside was, you were focused on what you were reading, and how it was going to become a paper, and how it tied into the lectures from the minute you picked up a book. Being able to cut through a lot of words and turn them into a productive paper quickly was not, though, a bad skill to learn.

Also, because so much of what you were learning was the nuance of human character, it made taking history and poly sci classes a breeze.

Also. . . if you don't like reading, maybe you shouldn't be an English major.