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You must be reading something wrong here then. I never disrespected teachers in any way. I also don't believe the people I mentioned have any learning disabilites. They just slowly got soured on reading by being forced to read uninteresting books.
I actually love reading it's just not fun having no choice. If the obligatory reading was a list of a couple things and you could choose what seems the most interesting I think that would work better.
My opinion on madame bovary was just to show that I can see how many people can have a dislike of several books that are on the curriculum and that can then fuel their dislike of reading. There were other books I was not the biggest fan of when I had to read them but bovary was the only one I actually found dreadful.
That's fair, sorry for misunderstanding. There's a tradeoff between "interesting to the student" and the teacher's time as well. My guess is most teachers would love to cater reading more towards every student's interest along with some required reading just because there's a canon you need to understand, even if you don't like it. Maybe technology will make that easier, but getting it in the classroom is an uphill battle very much outside of teacher control.