Took me a bit before I remembered my sarcasm language skills.



Anyway, some thoughts on some works you cited @Reddish Mage:

1984 (which I was assigned to read when it still took place in the "future") was one of the few novels that I can still remember the title of that I read for school that I didn't loalthe (unlike, for example The Great Gatsby, every character of which I despised).

Sadly while I was assigned it, I just don't remember Huck Finn very well, but on my own I read Twain's The Mysterious Stranger, which impressed me.

The Grapes of Wrath, movie I watched on a field trip to the Pacific Film Archive in Elementary school, and it shaped how I viewed my grandparents, but I didn't read the novel until I was sn adult with a child. I thought it was good, but not the page turner that Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle was, though to gamers I recommend Steinbeck's The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights more.