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.
I hated Old Man & The Sea when I read it in school. I finally gave it another shot when I was like 30 and turns out it’s fantastic if you don’t analyze every sentence and take it as a whole. Also helps to have actually had a job before to appreciate it.
I also hated Old Man and the Sea when my class read it in eighth grade! I’ve never even tried reading anything else by Hemingway, and I’ve been done with high school for 20+ years…
Give him another shot. He’s a lot better when you’re an adult.
Yes! I still hate that book. I had to read twice read it twice.