I think I have a tie between Native Son and The Great Gatsby. I swear if it wasn't for Sparknotes and Google I would've failed my Literature classes. I never even read a single chapter of any of those novels.
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Of Mice and Men was fine for me. I don't remember liking The Pearl though. There was this book I had to read for College English. It was a collection of short stories written by students of the same college. It had crap like Bondage -blam!- and this homo-blam!- kid fantasizing about a male pet shop owner. The most perverted crap I've ever read and the reason I quit college. Basically, the english teacher thought, "Hey this is adult material and you guys are adults so this is for you." No you moron.