Why do so many high school teachers have that precious bureaucratic, academic talent for breathing boredom and anxiety on the enchantment of great literature ? For poisoning the reading experience ?
Perhaps in a quiet solitary room a more sensitive ,curious student will experience the MAGIC of the awakened imagination. They will know in their hearts that life is interesting.
They will appreciate the public library the way fantasy writer Ray Bradbury did. How great writers " forged the consciousness of the race ". Read " The Silver Key " by H.P. Lovecraft.
[ " Randolph Carter discovers, at the age of 30, that he has gradually "lost the key to the gate of dreams." Randolph once believed life is made up of nothing but pictures in memory, whether they be from real life or dreams. He highly prefers his romantic nightly dreams of fantastic places and beings, as an antidote for the "prosiness of life". He believes his dreams to reveal truths missing from man's waking ideas, regarding the purpose of humans and the universe, primary among these being the truth of beauty as perceived and invented by humans in times past. As he ages, though.... " WIKI-PEDIA book review ]