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I remember when I was a kid in the 90s I was assigned an author I never heard about to do a school paper on. I was so disappointed I didn't get the cool famous ones like Ernest Hemingway, Lewis Carrol, HG Wells. I was jealous of the kids who got those. Instead, mine was author with a weird name. JRR Tolkien. Even as a kid, I was a fan of fantasy, so needless to say, my opinion of this random boring author definitely changed by the time I finished my essay. Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit were among the novels I chose to read. I remember not understanding the majority of LOTR as a kid, but I loved it nonetheless.

So to answer the question, no, sometimes those book projects and novels we were forced to read led to me discovering things that held a very special place in my heart.