Hemingway

 Subject: Re: It's true: Witches of Karres 
From: William December Starr
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
>Theresa Wojtasiewicz said:
> We took Hemingway in school. Nothing will kill the appreciation
> of a writer or a book faster than having it in your high school
> curriculum...

Same thing happened to me, except that going back to him years later convinced me that nothing would kill my appreciation of Hemingway like reading him.