I was set Farenheit 451 and Brave New World. Neither of which I dislike, although I'm not in love with either and I don't think I've re-read Farenheit 451. I did not like Far From The Madding Crowd, and the analysis just made it take longer. Not sure I even remember what else I was set, so it can't have helped much.
I probably did better with set plays than books: I remember An Inspector Calls, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar and Marlowe's Faust.
I think that unless you have at least some inclination towards being an English academic, then performing formal criticism on a work will enhance enjoyment of it to approximately the extent reading the source code would enhance your enjoyment of Pong, if you had no inclination towards programming.
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Date: 2012-02-15 12:37 pm (UTC)I probably did better with set plays than books: I remember An Inspector Calls, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar and Marlowe's Faust.
I think that unless you have at least some inclination towards being an English academic, then performing formal criticism on a work will enhance enjoyment of it to approximately the extent reading the source code would enhance your enjoyment of Pong, if you had no inclination towards programming.