I remember hating a lot of books when studying them in high school. A few years after graduating, I decided to read them again without the pressure of trying to analyze them, and I found that I enjoyed most of them. It wasn't the books I hated, it was the process of checking each line for similes, litotes, metaphors, alliteration,... that killed the joy of reading. So, I'm not sure that choosing different books is going to stop people from getting turned off, if they're still going to have to analyze the new ones.
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