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.

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    10 months ago

    The Little Prince by Saint- Exupery. Had to read it in 9th grade. Didn’t like it, didn’t understand most of it, and didn’t bother studying for the test on it. Still haven’t read it again and don’t intend to try reading it as an adult.

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      10 months ago

      I grew up on the cute little movie (Gene Wilder plays the Fox!) and it’s harmless enough. The book is a bit weird, and honestly, there’s too much else to read that I would say you’re not missing anything by not reading it haha