50 Famous ‘Literary Masterpieces’ That Actually Suck

47. Romeo and Juliet was an absolute nightmare to get through on the account that we read the entire thing aloud in class and the teacher corrected every single little mispronunciation. Given we’d never read old timey English before, it took us about twice as long as it should have.

48. The Scarlet Letter. It was being forced to read terrible books in high school that turned me off to reading. I used to like to read but not anymore.