Tinfoil Papercut posted:

There was some book I had to read for summer reading in high school that I remember standing out particularly awful.

I can't recall the name but it was set in rural China in the 1800's, some farmer does some boring stuff and has kids and like 2 wives and he stole some guys stuff in the city and one of his kids is slow I think. It was terrible and I got a something like a 20/100 on the test, even though it was one of the books I actually read instead of cliffsnotes.

I am 31, job, wife, 2 kids. This book and the assignment to read it had 0 impact on my academic, personal, or professional life. Yet it still takes up real estate in my brain as a miserable experience.