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.

  • akiomaster@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    No, but I also never had to spend that much time on one book. That’s kind of crazy, especially for Hunger Games.

    • Chiggadup@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I know some English teachers I’ve worked with basically have to read to their classes to get anyone to read, which leads to beating a single book into he ground.

      E.g. a colleague of min once spent over a month on Streetcar Named Desire. And back when I was in school I had a buddy choose to be in on-level English and as seniors they read Frankenstein…over the course of a full semester…

      • HiRedditItsMeDad@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’d say there’s probably at least a semester’s worth of analysis possible with Frankenstein. Not so much for Hunger Games, despite the fact that I very much enjoyed it.

      • pmmeBostonfacts@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        am I wrong also in thinking that the hunger games is really a middle school level book? not that it matters, I just think it gives more validity to what you’re saying.

      • fudgyvmp@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Frankenstein over the whole semester sounds painful. I think we spent only like 1-2 weeks on it as juniors (with the option of Wuthering Heights or Northanger Abbey, but I’d read Frankenstein before and was out one of the weeks for wisdom teeth, so just went off what I remembered).

    • Octothorpe110@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I have spent a good 10 years of my life re-reading and re-analyzing the hunger games since I read them too young to fully understand them. They appear simple and the movies cheapened it a lot, but there are so many different layers to unpack. It’s a shame so much time was spent on frivolous analysis and also pretty ironic.