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I think school influences me to read books that are more “intellectually stimulating” and “academic”. Sometimes they are interesting, but most of the time they are not. Often, the books on our reading lists are older “classic” books, which are believed to possess some sort of important, undying quality to them. I don’t know about that, but I do think that they are often lacking relevance to our current society and time period. Teachers may argue that they are timeless and that the reason they are classics is because they can virtually be applied to any generation. I don’t really buy this at all, and I wish that we read some newer more relevant novels. It would be pretty cool to read books that were similar in story line but were separated by their publication dates and compare and contrast the affect that had on the author and the novel.