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 had to read A Separate Peace in middle school or high school and loathed it. Tried it again last year for the “adult” perspective. Still loathed it!
I don’t remember that book at all, but I do remember reading the last page, closing the book, and being like “wow… I want to reread this when i’m older.”
I don’t know what made me think that. I think watching Dead Poets’ Society a billion times filled those shoes and I have no desire to read the book again lol (even though the movie and the book have nothing in common except boys’ school)
Someone wrote >!Finny dies at the end!< on page 50 of every copy in our school, which we all found hysterical…