No way, you read history instead of doing algebra? I just did it all at school so I didn't have to do it at home, I HATED homework (in fact I'm suppose to be doing it right now, don't tell my wife
).
The battle of Athens reminded me of a movie as I read it, Roadhouse anyone?
I read the Iliad and the Oddessy (f*cking Spellcheck letting me down here ) for fun, and did a Book report on Solzhenityn's "Gulag Archipelago" , all 3 volumes

I'd stay up till 3 AM reading, cram to get the homework done, then skip school the next day cuz you have to sleep
sometime.
Roadhouse was the Patrick Swayze, Sam Elliot one. Walking Tall was pretty much the same idea.
Corrupt Southern Sheriffs were a popular subject, look at "Dukes of Hazzard"