Which book that you were forced to read in school did you HATE the most?
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“The Color Purple.”
Not an appropriate book for 10th graders.
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All of 'em except Ian Fleming!
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Great Expectations
“What larks we’ll have, eh Pip?”
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Calculus. I found it highly derivative.
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It’s a tie between “Wuthering Heights” and “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”.
I would include “Gifts From The Sea,” but we only read one chapter. That was enough.
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Wuthering Heights…ugh…just saying it again makes me vomit
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Jane. Eyre. Ugh.
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The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
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The only book I was ever FORCED to read was “A Raisin in the Sun.” Boring as hell. Other than that, the teachers were usually trying to make me STOP reading.
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For me, the real stand out was “Fun with Dick and Jane”. What a yawn fest. Lousy story line too, and sooooo predictable. No exciting twists or turns. Figured out before hand that “See Spot run” would be followed by Spot running. I was not disappointed. The writer’s vocabulary was almost entirely monosyllablic. The illustration would have bored a 5 year old. Now that I mention it, it did bore one, Me. It was such a relief when we made it through, only to be handed " More Fun with Dick and Jane. I nearly cried.
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Hate is probably too strong of a word, but Beowulf was a real slog
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The Iliad, by Homer. Hard read, and long as Hell. Hahaha, no pun intended
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Heart of Darkness…
It was excruciating to try and read, so didn’t read it. I tried, but I couldn’t even get through the first chapter. So I just listened to the class discussions really well and managed to glean all test answers from those 
Close second is Lord of the Flies. At least that one had a Simpsons episode themed after it!
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Hahahahahaha! Too good
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A Separate Pease
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Emil Zola’s Germinal. At 15 I was too immature for for such extreme form of Naturalism. I was both shocked and perplexed.
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“pease” (plural peasen) (archaic) Alternative form of pea (“common plant; its edible seed”)
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I sympathise. The Odyssey was much more interesting.
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