I could post my entire high-school English class reading list (all four years) as books I hated: I had a knee-jerk "I hate this" reaction to everything they told us to read. I blame it on the fact that the first thing on that list was
Lord of the Flies, which should never have been given to 13/14 year olds to read: they're already messed up enough at that age.
However, I wouldn't necessarily consider them all bad. In retrospect, a few of them were fairly good,
I Am The Cheese comes to mind, many of them were just there (I never liked Hemingway, and still don't), and a few I'd rather gnaw off my own leg (metaphorically speaking) than read again:
Member of the Wedding,
A Separate Peace.
The odd thing is, I didn't hate reading, I read a
lot during those years, I just resented being told
what to read, apparently. Well, that plus the
LOTF thing.
