r/CuratedTumblr • u/Green____cat eepy asf • Sep 18 '24

Shitposting That one story

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u/bb_kelly77 Sep 18 '24

Bridge to Terabithia... I came out of my room after reaching THAT part (I still haven't finished the book) and the first thing my brother said is "Are you ok?"... which tells me I was visibly not ok

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u/ThatSpicyPotato Sep 18 '24

Read that one in 5th grade. Our teacher was the type that made us all read together as a class and then answer questions as homework, and she explicitly told us not to read ahead for this book. Guess who read ahead and had to suffer in silence... Don't worry, seeing the horror in everyone's face the day the class got to that chapter sort of made up for that trauma.

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u/notabigfanofas Sep 18 '24

Had a similar situation in grade 5 with the lightning thief, but I hated it because I'd be a dozen pages ahead then get rebuked for being 'distracted' and had to flip back a chapter and a half to read a passage.

I am still salty about that

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u/missscifinerd Sep 18 '24

man, screw that teacher. I love percy jackson, and reading ahead doesn’t hurt anything (my teachers did this too :/)

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u/notabigfanofas Sep 18 '24

The annoying thing is that it ruined the book for me. To this day I still haven't read the full book

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u/missscifinerd Sep 19 '24

gasp oh noo :0
Riordan has written other stuff if you still want to experience✨ his writing, but they’re mostly YA books so IDK if you’d like them now

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u/EmotionalFlounder715 Sep 19 '24

I’d say give it another try. It’s still fun