I loathed Gatsby in high school. It's RUINED for me. I could never go back and read it. There's far too much else I'd rather have cross my eyeballs so many o

I loathed Gatsby in high school. It's RUINED for me. I could never go back and read it. There's far too much else I'd rather have cross my eyeballs so many other stories in the library. By having a work unworthy of my experience and tastes wasted on me at a young age my emotional investment in it is already squandered. Have a big list of OK books. Have some representative excerpts from them, and let the kids pick books they're going to enjoy. The point surely is NOT to haze / torment the kids with 'bad' books that discourage reading generally.