I've always thought that I got through school with fairly okay grades not because I have some innate talent but because I've always love to read, and I've always been partial to fantasy and science fiction as well as horror, even through this day. Reading, in my opinion, is very good for comprehension.

I don't read, fiction anyway, to be taught. I read to be entertained, and that's what matters to me.

First time I read it, I cried freely at the end.

Lovely book, one of the best. Read it again fairly recently after many years, and it still resonates, more bittersweet.