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.
Not my teacher’s fault, but I hated The Pearl so much that I didn’t read Steinbeck again for a decade. Dude, your strong point is dialogue then you write a book without dialogue.
Oh my god. I forgot about this book until your comment. My teacher dragged it OUT. Read Cannery Row on my own years later and finally understood why people like him.
Three times. We read The Pearl in 7th grade, 9th grade, and 12th grade. F**k Coyotito, is all I can say.