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.

  • FurBabyAuntie@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My fourth-grade teacher read a chapter from a book to the class every day–as I recall, we heard all of the Narnia books, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator and quite possibly James And The Giant Peach. Wonderful experience (I don’t care how old you are, “tell me a story” is hard-wired in there) and I’ll happily go back and read all of them.

    In sixth grade, my teacher assigned A Separate Peace–I was eleven or twelve years old, lived four blocks from school and had no idea what a boarding school was or what happened to the kid who fell out of the tree at the end (I read a newspaper article about the book about five or ten years ago–finally found out he died). In seventh or eighth grade, we had to read Catcher In The Rye. If it helped you in any way, I’m happy, but all I want to this day is to punch Holden Caulfield in the mouth…yes, I know he’s a fictional character. I don’t care, but I know…

    The only one I remember from high school was Anthem by Ayn Rand. After going through those fifty or seventy-five pages some six or seven times (and imagining triplets joined at the head), I finally figured out everybody in the damn story was using the royal we (as in Queen Victoria’s famous statement “We are not amused”) and there is NOTHING in this world that will ever make me read her books again.