Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Books I Had to Read In School and Didn't Like

 

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Welcome back to Wednesday. Hope you're having a great week.

Today, we are discussing the books we had to read in school and didn't like. For this post, I stuck to high school, since those are the years when I felt every time I turned around, I was reading another classic that didn't interest me at all. We had to analyze our reading in ways that sucked whatever possible enjoyment you can take out of the required reading, especially because there were tests involved. 

I will never again read The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The passing years have done nothing to dull how much I disliked this book. 

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a book I wouldn't want to read again. I think we read it sophomore or junior year. The characters were dreadful. Didn't much care for the decade in which the book is set. And even the cover is creepy to me. 

Our class had to tackle Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott in our freshman year. Though I enjoy historical fiction, this book did nothing for me. The Crusades were not something I wished to learn more about. I certainly didn't want to be tested on what I read, either. 

I feel like if I picked up All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque today, I might find it more engaging than when I read it freshman year. The main character staying true to himself is one of the best parts of the book. 

What books made your list?