Anyway, I was only 7 when I started reading this and I remember making my way to the living room, settling down on the carpet with a glass of orange juice and diving into Brazil. Even to this day, this has been the only school curriculum book that has remained with me - I detested all the others, 'Hamlet, Swiss Family Robinson, The Old Man and the Sea, etc., etc.', simply because studying literature at school was the ultimate buzz kill. But seriously, I hated The Old Man and the Sea - it made me want to stab someone, pull my hair out, or scream at the old man to jump into the sea to end his deluded life. Ironically, Ernest Hemingway, the author, did take his own life ... sad. The man had quite a life, survived 2 plane crashes, a bush fire and served in the war.
A very long time ago, when I was young and carefree, with all the time in the world to do nothing because my house was stuck in the middle of nowhere and I had no one to play with, I wandered into the storage room and dug this out of my sister's carton of discarded curriculum. Not many people have heard of this book, because it was only circulated around schools and the recommended reading age was between 8 and 12 years old.
Anyway, I was only 7 when I started reading this and I remember making my way to the living room, settling down on the carpet with a glass of orange juice and diving into Brazil. Even to this day, this has been the only school curriculum book that has remained with me - I detested all the others, 'Hamlet, Swiss Family Robinson, The Old Man and the Sea, etc., etc.', simply because studying literature at school was the ultimate buzz kill. But seriously, I hated The Old Man and the Sea - it made me want to stab someone, pull my hair out, or scream at the old man to jump into the sea to end his deluded life. Ironically, Ernest Hemingway, the author, did take his own life ... sad. The man had quite a life, survived 2 plane crashes, a bush fire and served in the war.
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