I'm all for reading the classics, but if you take all of the fun out of reading, nobody is going to do it. If someone had forced me to read Plato instead of Harry Potter as a kid, I wouldn't have done nearly as much reading as I did, which prepared me for tackling more difficult texts as I matured.
Re: American TV, Deadwood is widely considered some of the best Shakespearean writing of the modern age.
> I'm all for reading the classics, but if you take all of the fun out of reading, nobody is going to do it. If someone had forced me to read Plato instead of Harry Potter as a kid, I wouldn't have done nearly as much reading as I did, which prepared me for tackling more difficult texts as I matured.
You don't have to jump between extremes, plenty of interesting and still brain engaging books
Re: American TV, Deadwood is widely considered some of the best Shakespearean writing of the modern age.