FoxTrot by Bill Amend for September 12, 2021

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 3 years ago

    Andy’s high school days must’ve been way different than her kids’ high school days.

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    Lightpainter  about 3 years ago

    Wait till college, Paige. Every one of your professors will expect that every day. And then you also have to write papers on various topics.

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    LobosSolos Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Umm, it depends. What’s the book? Most of the stuff that they feed you in high school is not worth using as bird cage liner. If it’s Pratchett, Heinlein, Ringo, or Correia, I’ll be done shortly.

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    Kroykali  about 3 years ago

    Today’s classic Sunday strip we’re missing:

    https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2000/09/10

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    Ken 2049 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    My mom can read a 200 page book in 2 hours. I used to reread the same paragraph for 10 minutes.

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    Mlmontagne  about 3 years ago

    Girl, please. You’ve been in high school for thirty years.

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    Unicorn55 (Happy New Year 2022!)  about 3 years ago

    I agree with the mother!

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    PammWhittaker  about 3 years ago

    My parents and Granny read to me from the time I was born. I was reading simple words before kindergarten, and I was reading/comprehending college level in junior high. So yeah, school could be rather boring at times. But I still love to read :) Real books.. I love the feel and smell of them!

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    booknerd9  about 3 years ago

    It’s pretty hard to read a book you didn’t choose yourself. I disliked almost every single book I was assigned to read for high school.

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    HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member about 3 years ago

    So, start at page 74.

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    Durak Premium Member about 3 years ago

    My 8th graders are reading “The Outsiders” right now and having the same problem Andy had. Too good to put down.

    Stay gold, Ponyboy!

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    WCraft Premium Member about 3 years ago

    What are these “books” she references?

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    scyphi26  about 3 years ago

    No, not what she meant, Andy. Though amusingly, I can weirdly relate to both sides of this topic. :P

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    del_grande Premium Member about 3 years ago

    THERE’S the “Reset Button.” Had me worried there for a minute – I thought Peter might actually have to graduate.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  about 3 years ago

    Andy must often wonder how Paige and Peter are here children. Proof of recessive genes, I guess.

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    Twelve Badgers in a Suit Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Everything about high school and college reading classes seemed designed to suck all of the fun and magic out of otherwize perfectly good stories. Except when they were making you read incomprehensible nonsense and genuinely didn’t seem to be able to tell the difference. No wonder so many people don’t read, with all of that negative reinforcement associated with it.

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    BiggerNate91  about 3 years ago

    Can I trade places with Paige? I want to go back to high school.

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    Robert4170  about 3 years ago

    This intense dislike of reading is something I cannot relate to. I always loved to read. In grade school we had bookworms made of paper rings. Mine was the longest.

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    ZarPaulus  about 3 years ago

    You can see which parent the kids take after.

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    Teto85 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    The Fox family seems to be a lot like the DeGroots in that they are stuck in high school for 20+ years now.

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    txmystic  about 3 years ago

    I suppose it depends on the book…

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    Mentor397  about 3 years ago

    Yup, I got in trouble for reading ahead in class, and rereading ahead, and rereading again. What can I say? A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was a good book, possibly the best I had to read in high school.

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    Natarose  about 3 years ago

    Reading is my favorite past time. Unfortunately, I tend to stay up too late doing it and am tired when I have to go to work the next morning.

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    Taracinablue  about 3 years ago

    I used to have to make myself stop so I didn’t read the whole book all at once… but that hasn’t been a problem in some time, since now I have much more limited time to read. (Although, the past two and a half weeks, I’ve had that ol’ virus and have been able to read a lot more—that’s one upside, for sure.)

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    evsxrk  about 3 years ago

    As I related in a comment elsewhere not long ago, when I was in sixth grade our teacher told us to read the first five chapters of The Count of Monte Cristo over the weekend, and I ended up reading the entire book. I don’t think the rest of the class ever finished it (though a few people might have done so on their own eventually).

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    hawkeye-back-n-iowa  about 3 years ago

    For me it depends on the book. If I get really going I can spend hours reading and have it feel like no time at all. Other times it’s all I can do to finish the chapter I’m reading. My current project is a combination of the two. Flying through it until I reach a paragraph that leaves me wanting to be sick or weep uncontrollably. And then forcing myself to finish the chapter.

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    ElJorro  about 3 years ago

    I am definitely in Andrea’s camp here.

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    Foxtrot snowday ('Sup Roblox peeps)  about 3 years ago

    I am with you Andy

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    Anonymous...  about 3 years ago

    What books do you recommend to read?

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    Porsche 997 GT3 RS 4.0  about 2 years ago

    I DO THAT TOO ANDY

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    Lil Twiggy Premium Member about 2 years ago

    That’s so cringy and I hate it!

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    Quincy devour of worlds  over 1 year ago

    I read the lord of the rings and it was torture to have to stop

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