In school there wasn't really a required reading book that I hated... A lot of them didn't really quirk my interest but they were OK... However I changed schools a lot, and different schools have different required books at different grade levels. So I ended up having to read James and the Giant Peach 3 years in a row, and Where the Red Fern Grows 3 or 4 times as well. Why did I have to read them over? They weren't very interesting to me, so I didn't retain all of them very well. I could answer a lot of the quiz questions from what I had remembered reading, but some of the questions were trickier and I had to refresh my memory by rereading the book.