I'm trying very hard to think of any book I was made to read at school that I liked *furrows brow* Nope I can't think of any.* I was made to read Great Expectations at the age of nine and found it very dark & dull. I was also put off Thomas Hardy for life by being made to study The Mayor of Casterbridge. I don't think it was so much the reading the books that put me off, it was the speed we had to read them and the interminable analysis of themes, which as far as I was concerned the authors had probably not put in deliberately (in most cases). Reading should be fun and not painful!

* Just thought of some - Shakespeare plays.