This could be from any age really. I remember reading lots of books like Harry Potter as a 4th grader to seem smart to the teachers looking at me but I didn’t understand any of it. When the big YA dystopian boom was happening, I read tons of terrible YA dystopias to seem cool but many of them frustrated me.
Hey I understand that. I have a collection of all World of Warcraft books (besides the ones that were entirely retconed from the lore) and I’ve read them all. Not really the most beautiful literature by most people’s standards and I defs hide the cover if I’m reading them on the bus or something but idk, I really love them. In the trash is treasure sometimes.