I suppose I should try some Austen again... Got force-fed 'Pride and Prejudice' at school - with the 'read a paragraph, analyse the shit out of it' approach mentioned above. To a girl, the whole class of 32 pre- and pubescent 12-14yr olds upped and mutinied against it. We got through the first chapter and then it was swapped for 'The Hobbit'. This was in the days before the Colin Firth TV version, which might have made a difference...

I knew I was growing up when I made it all the way through 'Wuthering Heights' and understood it and it remains to this day, the only Bronte book I have ever read.