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

    I read Great Expectations as a freshman in high school, then again as a sophomore in college. It was MUCH a more enjoyable as a more mature person who could be trusted to learn about the social context of the time it was written in, talk about sexuality and gender relations in class, and appreciate some of the dark humor in it. I think it’s a great example of a book that commonly gets taught to kids who are too young to really appreciate it, and the public school setting also muzzles a lot of what’s interesting about it.

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      10 months ago

      I loved GE when I read it after college. Recently reread it and was surprised at how dull most of the ending chapters were.