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.
Not exactly or entirely. I don’t like Shakespeare because I studied Romeo and Juliet, likely Act 1 Scene 1 put me off, the thumb biting exchange just seemed so overlong and pointless. I wasn’t a fan before high school so while it put me off Shakespeare, I wasn’t really change my opinion. Even now the only things I like about Shakespeare are 10 Things I Hate About You and “Let’s BooBoo” from The World’s End. I had a read a few very abridged versions of Charles Dickens’ stories. I had some in class assignment looking at a chapter of Great Expectations, the one describing Wemmick’s house. Maybe not the whole chapter, maybe just a few pages. One page had what seemed to be one long, convoluted sentence. Strangely, that was enough to put me off reading Dickens. Just reading it, I can still watch adaptations.