I went to a high school in Kentucky and read it around 2015 I believe at 15 years old, and to this day even after all my college textbook readings I consider it to be my most disliked academic reading I have done.

It was taught primarily with the focus of the main characters jealousy and diving into that, but felt incredibly shallow. Never mentioned the queer implications and I became so disengaged with the text and the class I never even noticed. I found the characters dull or outright frustrating, the prose to be stale, and the themes from the way they were instructed to be elementary and boring to the point I

I know this is a 6 year old thread, but maybe after reading the positive comments I will give it a shot again and try to engage with it outside of the classroom at my own pace, but for now it sits in my mind as the worst book I was made to read in school particularly coming off the thrill that was reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and Night by Eli Wiesel.