Finucane wrote I think at age 4 the poor boy was hung up conjugating verbs in classical Greek so he could understand The Iliad.  By the way, how was it?

Oh, I found quite wonderful.  No, actually, as a matter of fact, in Grade 4 I had the reading and grammar level of a Grade 1. In Grade 5 I picked up J.R.R Tolkiens Lord of The Rings and read it and got hooked on fantasy and science fiction literature. By Grade 7, my grammar and reading level had shot up, and I'm better then almost everyone in my year.