I just finished Red Rising and I did not like it at all. I wanted to. It had all the things I would have loved but it felt like a rough draft and at times was a bit hard to follow. The intense world building was an ambitious endeavor and I think the author needed some help there.
Most of them? I dunno. I feel like I read everything I was "supposed to" but I was too young for all of it and found them all boring, despite my uncanny ability to write good HS essays (and kick ass at graded discussions- even when I hadn't read the book! MAD SKILLZ!)
Now as an intelligent adult I feel like I should re-read the classics but it's hard for me to re-read something that I didn't enjoy the first time. I feel anti-intellectual and guilty about this, but I'm happily burrowed into Red Rising and Outlander at the moment, so maybe I'll be an adult some day in the future. :-P
This is how I feel too. There is not one book I had to read for English class that I enjoyed. It was like pulling teeth and I would say 80% of the time I didn't finish it. And I love to read!
Catcher in the Rye, ugh. The Great Gatsby. The Old Man and the Sea, booooorrrring!
anything by Jane Austen. I can't stand reading her books. love the stories, I'll watch any movie adaptation, but hate reading HER books. it's her style of writing. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who hates Austen.