I think I am in the minority of American college graduates in that I never read "The Lottery" when I was in school. Now that I have read it and some of Jackson's other work I wish I had been exposed to it earlier. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the short stories in this book and I always love reading an author who is obviously influential on other writers that I admire but I feel like she would have hit me a lot harder if I had read her when I was younger. I think she is one of those writers who you have to read at a certain stage in your life to fully appreciate; someone that expresses something with their words that you felt in that time that you hadn't been able to properly emote or something that you had never seen before. These are the best authors in the world, on an individual level, because you carry that love and appreciation for them with you for the rest of your life.
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