2026-11-04 06:40 UTC
In Germany not a single thing. We call ourselves “land of poets and thinkers” yet the books I had to read during my time in school only made most people despise books in general. What a joke.
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@balsoft@lemmy.ml 2026-11-04 09:24
In Russia it’s kinda the inverse. Like 80% of the books I’ve read in middle/high school I’ve re-read as an adult, most of them were still really interesting even on the second read.
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@Jobe@feddit.org 2026-11-04 09:35
Of the two good books I had to read in school in germany (Krabat and The Great Gatsby), I had already read both of them before. Everything else was at least boring and often actively bad.
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@Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 2026-11-07 09:11
I had to read Herman Hesse, which I loved at the time. Especially Unterm Rad and Siddhartha. Now I hear a lot of people read Tschick, which is quite beloved. I reckon you’re generally right, though; the German school system is far from entertaining.