Please Change the High School English Curriculum

I'm not weird about telling people how old I am; I was born in 1982, which makes me 32, going on 33. While there are certainly many classics of literature that stand the test of time and that should be read again and again by young high school students, there are also other texts that beg to be removed from the curriculum because they are so difficult and painful to get through that their only accomplishment is to make students dread English. I have a great deal to say about this, but I am reluctant to mention books by name.  But it is high time that the reading curriculum undergo an overhaul that integrates required personal reading, that allows students to pick from a list of contemporary (and perhaps less literary) books. Let them learn how to enjoy the eact of reading before forcing them to understand the implications of literary profundity.