This was the most difficult book I read in high school. I read Speak, Memory when I was in Mrs. Kerns' Honors English 11 (a junior in high school). Initially, I remember hating this book. I couldn't figure out why we were reading it, and I didn't know what made Vladimir Nabokov so special or worth knowing about. Part of what infuriated me was the fast pace we had to take in order to finish this book and move on to others. Eventually, I approached my teacher about … more