For example, Charles Dickens is not my thing. His books are so gloomy, over worded and unnecessarily drawn out. I’d rather walk on glass than read A Tale of Two Cities again. On the other hand, I went on to read Jane Eyre many more times; I even used it as the basis of an independent study I was permitted to take my senior year of collage. This led to something that rarely happens to undergraduates: publishing a paper about the effects of a patriarchal society on women.