Literally any book that you now dislike due to school. This also applies to other literature styles as well.

Mine is The Hunger Games. I had to read it las year in school and it drove me insane. We started doing the novel study in early February and didn’t finish until May. I finished the book in less than two weeks, so I was pretty much just reading personal books all through English class for close to two months.

It’s not even like we had to analyze it super intensely. It was projects like ‘Make a playlist for a character of your choice’ and we had vocabulary tests every week, that were a joke. It was multiple choice for words like quest and forage. I know that English wasn’t everyone’s first language but come on.

I didn’t even like the book that much in the first place, so all of this was just adding to the misery.

  • AcolyteofAconite@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. It was summer homework (aka bullshit) and I wasn’t interested in spending my free time analyzing complex racial themes, nor did I really get it as a fourteen-year-old. I found I appreciated the book waaaaay more in my 20s when I approached it on my own.

    That being said, The Road, To Kill A Mockingbird, and The Witch of Blackbird Pond are stuck in my head.

    • ferociousburrito@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I recently bought Invisible Man to give it another go. It was summer ready for me as well and I put it off until the last minute, so I just tried to speed read it. I’m excited to sit down with it almost 15 years later and try again.