I did Of Mice and Men at School and a few of Billy S' works, I enjoyed OMAM but hated Shakespeare, my old granddad(god rest his soul) used to say "that bastard has caused no end of grief for schoolkids for 500 years, he should have been drowned at birth

Did not matter in the end as I was not entered for an English GCSE...

Out of interest, did anyones history lessons involve Blackadder Goes Forth, when we were studying the First World War, quite early on we were shown the last ever episode where they went over the top and was told we were viewing it to show about how stupid the conflict, bad decisions that were made and the utter sense of hopelessness